24 June 2007
Zeena Shakir Mahmoud
Shooting
Zeena Shakir Mahmoud was shot to death Sunday on her way home from work in Mosul, the second female journalist to be killed in the northern city this month, officials said.
Mahmoud, a former radio broadcaster, was writing about women's affairs for the Al-Haqiqa newspaper, an organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, according to Abdul-Ghani Ali Yahya, head of the Journalists Union of Kurdistan. Although she worked for a Kurdish paper, she was a Sunni Arab. She was attacked around 3:35 p.m. in the mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood of Intisar in eastern Mosul, a city 225 miles northwest of the capital, police Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim al-Jubouri said.
