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British Journalist Slain in Iraqi Capital

The British journalist shot and killed on a Baghdad street corner was an eager 24-year-old cameraman who had arrived from London just two weeks ago, aiming to become a war correspondent, the reporter's co-workers said Sunday.


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The British journalist shot and killed on a Baghdad street corner was an eager 24-year-old cameraman who had arrived from London just two weeks ago, aiming to become a war correspondent, the reporter's co-workers said Sunday.

Richard Wilde was fatally shot on Saturday as he stood in a crowd in the midday sun, apparently on his way to research a story on Iraq's vandalized Natural History Museum, said Michael Burke, an independent British TV producer in Baghdad who identified Wilde's body at a hospital morgue on Saturday.

Also on Saturday a remote-controlled blast killed seven Iraqi police recruits at their graduation ceremony west of Baghdad in a new attack blamed at die-hard Saddam Hussein loyalists seeking to derail US plans for Iraq.

Meanwhile, a former US ambassador who investigated a report about Iraq buying uranium from Niger accused the Bush administration yesterday of twisting intelligence to exaggerate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

Joseph Wilson, Washington's envoy to Gabon from 1992 to 1995, said in an article in the New York Times that he went to Niger in February 2002 at the request of the CIA to assess the intelligence report - which the International Atomic Energy Agency later dismissed as being based on forged documents.

In London, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has dismissed as "absurd" a BBC claim that government officials doctored intelligence about Iraq's weapons to boost the case for war, a British newspaper reported yesterday.

A parliamentary committee investigating the government's use of intelligence to justify war is due to report today. The BBC has stood by journalist Andrew Gilligan, who reported in May that officials in Blair's office "sexed up" a dossier on Iraq's chemical and biological weapons to exaggerate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's arsenal.




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