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Journalist's murder signals rising Islamist influence
By James Drummond in Mosul
Published: November 5 2003 4:00 | Last Updated: November 5 2003 4:00

It is not just US soldiers and their Iraqi allies who are being killed in post-war Iraq.

Ahmed Shawkat, a journalist and writer, was murdered last week in the northern city of Mosul by two suspected Islamist militants because of what he had written.
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http://www.washtimes.com/world/20031105-...-7310r.htm

Christian families in Iraq targeted

By Damien McElroy
LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH

RAMADI, Iraq — Hostile sounds of a city in revolt drift over the iron gate as one of the last Christian families in Ramadi prepares for lunch.
In post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, Ramadi has become a hotbed of Islamic resistance.
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