27 February 2005
Raiedah Mohammed Wageh Wazan
Shooting
The body of Raiedah Mohammed Wageh Wazan, the 35-year-old news presenter for the U.S.- funded Nineveh TV, was found dumped on a Mosul street, six days after she was kidnapped by masked gunmen, according to her husband, who said she had been shot four times in the head.
"This is a criminal act. She was an innocent woman who did not hurt anybody in all her life. I asked her several times to quit for the sake of her safety, but she refused," said Salim Saad-Allah, the husband.
The mother of three boys and a girl had been threatened with death several times by insurgents who demanded she quit her job, Saad-Allah said. Nineveh TV was attacked the week before with mortar rounds that wounded three technicians.
An Arabic-language Internet bulletin board recently carried a statement from al-Qaida In Iraq claiming responsibility for the mortar strike.
