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...Insurgents have kidnapped 36 reporters since April 2004, when abductions surged, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Most were released, but RAI correspondent Enzo Baldoni, an Italian, was killed in August 2004. Steven Vincent, an American freelancer, was killed in Basra in August 2005. The number of Iraqi journalists killed or kidnapped is much higher. ?Baghdad has become a deathtrap for journalism,? said Aidan White, General Secretary for the International Federation of Journalists. ?No journalist is safe once they take to the streets...
...President Jacques Chirac launched an all-out diplomatic push too, sending Foreign Minister Michel Barnier on a whirlwind tour of Arab capitals. King Abdullah II of Jordan and the Qatar Foreign Minister called on the Iraqi Islamic Army - which is believed to have abducted and executed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni last month after Italy failed to meet demands to pull its troops from Iraq - to free the hostages. Even Hamas, which earlier in the week claimed responsibility for a deadly double bus bombing in Israel, and an aide to Iraq's rebel Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called...
...EXECUTED. ENZO BALDONI, 56, Italian freelance journalist; after being kidnapped Aug. 19 on the road between Baghdad and Najaf; in Iraq. The al-Jazeera network said last Thursday that it had received a picture of Baldoni's body from a group calling itself the Islamic Army; the group claimed the killing was in response to Italy's refusal to withdraw troops from Iraq. A father of two who ran a successful Milan advertising agency, Baldoni turned to journalism in 1996 and was working in Iraq for the Milan weekly Diario. He is the second Italian hostage killed in Iraq since...