Body of Nineveh TV anchor found in Mosul
Last Updated: Saturday, February 26, 2005 | 7:08 PM ET
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The body of a female news anchor was found in Mosul Saturday, six days after masked gunmen kidnapped her, reports her family.
The husband of Raiedah Mohammed Wageh Wazan said her body was dumped along a street. She had been shot four times in the head.
The anchor for Nineveh TV had received repeated death threats, said her husband Salim Saad-Allah, who had tried to convince her to leave the U.S. funded network.
It's not known why she was kidnapped and killed, but last week, Nineveh TV was attacked by a round of mortar fire. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for that attack.
Raiedah Mohammed Wageh Wazan (AP Photo)
The fate of kidnapped Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena is still not known.
On Wednesday, Italian President Carlo Ciampi called for her immediate release, the same day the journalist pleaded for her life in a taped video appeal.
Unidentified gunmen near Baghdad University kidnapped the 56-year-old reporter for the communist daily newspaper Il Manifesto on Feb. 4.
While Italy has insisted it would not pay a ransom to win her release, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said the government was trying to negotiate Sgrena's release.
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