Iraqi Cub Reporter Was Among Victims of US Raid

washingtonpost: An unarmed Iraqi journalist was among those killed during a controversial military raid late last month in northern Baghdad, according to interviews with his editors, a reporter who was with him when he died and other witnesses.

...Video footage broadcast hours later on the al-Iraqiya television network, which is closely tied to Jafari, showed bodies strewn among prayer books and no weapons in sight. The building was a mosque, several witnesses said, and people were killed while praying. Witnesses interviewed at the complex later said many unarmed worshipers had been shot while praying, which the U.S. military and the Iraqi commander at the scene have denied. Read more