Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq

    MOSUL, Iraq, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Gunmen shot dead a media member working for the Iraqi state-run radio in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, local police said.

    "Muhammad Nuri, a director of the Iraqia Radio, was killed by gunmen near his house in the al-Jazaa'ir neighborhood in the center of Mosul City," Brigadier Abdul Kareem al-Juboury, from the city police told Xinhua.

    The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international independent organization defending press freedom, counted up to 94 journalists and 37 media workers killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.