By: An Iraqi journalist who disappeared after leaving his offices to buy some supplies was found shot to death Tuesday in central Baghdad, according to his organization.
Hisham Michwit Hamdan, 27, went missing Sunday after he left the offices of the Young Journalists League to get notebooks and pens at a market in the central Baghdad district of Bab al-Mudham district, the league's chief said.
His bullet-riddled body was found Tuesday in central Baghdad, according to league chief, Haider al-Moussawi and police.
Hamdan joined the independent organization when it was established in 2003 as a media watchdog and had not reported any threats, al-Moussawi added. He is survived by a wife and two children.
Excluding the latest death, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has said at least 126 journalists and 50 media support workers have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. Most were Iraqis.
Two journalists employed by the U.S. television network CBS also have gone missing in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. CBS did not identify the journalists but said Monday that all efforts were under way to find them.
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