Journalist among 24 killed in Iraq attacks
Twenty four people, including a journalist, were killed and 53 wounded in separate attacks in central Iraq Saturday, police said. In Baghdad, Mohammed Bdiewi, a journalist, was shot by Kurdish security forces near a presidential site, Xinhua reported citing police. Bdiewi, also a teacher in the media college at Baghdad's Mustansriyah University, was shot dead in Baghdad's central district of Karrada. Bdiewi was heading to his office at Free Iraq Radio station when he had a dispute with soldiers guarding a presidential site belonging to Iraq's Kurdish President Jalal Talabani. Talabani has been in Germany recovering from a stroke since the end of 2012. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered the arrest of the officer who is believed to have shot Bdiewi dead, local media reported. In a statement, the Iraqi Journalists' Syndicate condemned the incident and said "this disgraceful act which was perpetrated against an Iraqi journalist by the checkpoint indicates lack