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NEW YORK The Committee to Protect Journalists says Iraq remains the most lethal place for working media members despite a two-thirds decline in deaths there in 2008.

The New York-based private group said Monday that 11 journalists were killed there last year compared with 32 in each of the two years before that. All 11 were locals working for Iraqi news outlets.

Worldwide there were 41 work-related journalist deaths in 2008, a sharp drop from 65 killed the year before.

The committee says journalists credit Iraq's lower death toll to "improvement in security conditions."