The U.S. is murdering journalists in Iraq

Knight-Ridder reporter, Yasser Salihee, 30, was killed on June 24, 2005. It was his day off and the Iraqi journalist was on the way to get gasoline to bring his family to the swimming pool.

But Salihee ran into a Baghdad road intersection where every exit had been blocked by U.S. Humvees. An ambush. Then a U.S. sniper's bullet ended his life.

But his journalistic carreer continued for three more days. He already had co-written one of the most important articles ever by a war correspondent. In that last article, published on June 27, Salihee explained how in one month the number of unexplained gunshot victims in the Baghdad morgue had jumped from 16 to over 500.