Steven Vincent, the journalist who authored the interesting Basra oped in the New York Times on Sunday, has been killed, shot multiple times after getting abducted with his translator. (He blogged here as well). NPR's Philip Reeves says that Vincent and his translator were abducted outside his hotel by people in a white pick up with "police" written on it, but no license plate. (Vincent describes a similar vehicle used by police loyal to radical Shiite clerics to commit sectarian assassinations in his oped). His translator Ward al-Khal was shot through the chest, and is hospitalized.

Fourteen Marines were killed today in Anbar province.

Posted by Laura at August 3, 2005 08:02 AM