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Man confesses to killing Iraqi journalist
Aug 4, 2009, 12:24 GMT
Baghdad - A man suspected of killing an Iraqi TV journalist confessed to the murder and two others in a police videotape broadcast on al-Arabiya news channel Tuesday.
In the tape, Yasser Mohammed al-Takhi admits to killing al-Arabiya correspondent Atwar Bahjat and two colleagues, cameraman Adnan Abdallah and sound engineer Khalid Mohsin in February 2006.
Police arrested al-Takhi on Monday on suspicion of committing the murders.
Qassim Atta, spokesman for the Iraqi security forces in Baghdad, told a press briefing that at least three people had participated in the murders.
Iraqi forces in June 2006 announced that Bahjat's killer was Haitham al-Sabia, a leading al-Qaeda militant in the northern city of Samara. In April 2007, however, they said that al-Sabia was already dead.
Al-Arabiya says that eight of its journalists have been killed in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion of the country.
According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 139 journalists have been killed in Iraq since 2003.
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