March 05, 2007	Monday	Safar 15, 1428

BAGHDAD: Gunmen shot dead Mohan al-Dhahr, editor of the Al-Mashriq newspaper, in front of his west Baghdad home on Sunday, the secretary general of the Iraqi Journalists Union said.

“They knocked on his door and when he came out they opened fire,” said Moaed al-Lami, adding that Dhahr's death brought the number of journalists killed in the four years since the US invasion to 190.

There was no initial word on which of Baghdad's myriad of death squads, militias, gangs or insurgent groups might have been behind the murder.—AFP