NYT: Is Basra sending a message?
Today’s New York Observer stops short of saying so outright, and so does the NYT. Monday afternoon, the NYT’s Bill Keller confirmed that trusted Times Iraqi stringer Fakher Haider had been executed in Basra, less than two months after the similarly-targeted murder of Steven Vincent in that city.
According to Tom Scocca, foreign editor Susan Chira acknowledges that “[w]e believe that insurgents, or whoever these people are, read Web sites” but that the NYT is still processing the details and that it’s “too soon” to establish whether Haider’s NYT affiliation was connected to his death.
But
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