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This 3 page paper briefly profiles the work of Steven Vincent, a freelance journalist murdered in Basra, Iraq, in 2005. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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think that their career choice could be life-threatening, but it is. Journalists have been murdered in many countries to keep them from exposing the truth. This paper discusses Steven Vincent,
who was shot dead in Iraq in 2005. Discussion The inspiration for this paper is actually the activism of Elena Milashina, an investigative journalist for the prominent Russian independent paper
Novaya Gazeta; despite attempts to silence her, Milashina "exposes the truth about human rights abuses and widespread government corruption" ("Elena Milashina, Russia"). Milashinas colleague and mentor, Anna Politkovskaya, was killed
in 2006 and since then, Milashina has continued to publish accounts of government abuses such as torture and disappearances, even as she continues to work on an investigation of Politkovskayas
death ("Elena Milashina, Russia"). Milashina says candidly that some day she will be gunned down on the street, and no one will do anything about it. Who was he?
Another journalist who died for reporting the truth is an American, Steven Vincent, who was killed in Basra, Iraq in 2005. Vincent, a freelancer whose work appeared in such diverse
publications as the Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal and the National Review, was kidnapped and murdered shortly after he wrote an article accusing Basras police force of "being infiltrated
by Shiite militiamen" ("American Journalist Found Shot Dead in Basra"). He quoted an "unidentified Iraqi police lieutenant as saying that some police were behind many of the assassinations of former
Baath Party members that have taken place in Basra" ("American Journalist Found Shot Dead in Basra"). The lieutenant confirmed that there is a "death car," a "white Toyota Mark II
that glides through the city streets, carrying off-duty police officers in the pay of extremist religious groups to their next assignment" ("American Journalist Found Shot Dead in Basra"). It could
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