Iraq: Watchdog "extremely worried" about kidnapped US reporter.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of press release by Paris-based organization Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) on 9 January

Reporters Without Borders said it was extremely worried by the reported abduction of an American woman journalist last Saturday [7 January] in Baghdad and appalled by the news that her interpreter was shot dead by her abductors.

"Journalists working in Iraq have once again been caught in a deadly ambush," the press freedom organization said. "The interpreter's death confirms that the Iraqi press continues to be the chief victim of the infernal climate for the media in this country. Our thoughts go out to his …