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Gunmen Kill 11 in Iraqi TV Station Raid
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?r=279&c=655968&l=1009&ctl=145E840:A6F02AD83191E1600002E9C2E2C9B2419574F7DCC14957C0 Executive manager
of Iraqi satellite station, Hassan Kamil, says gunmen raided building
early Thursday killing guards, technicians and administrative staff





Sunni-Arab Shaabiya satellite television station employee sits next to
body of his colleague at al-Kindi hospital, in Baghdad, October 12,
2006Iraqi police say gunmen have stormed the offices of a new
television station, Shaabiya, in eastern Baghdad, killing 11 employees
in one of the biggest attacks yet on media in Iraq.

The executive manager of the Iraqi satellite station, Hassan Kamil,
says gunmen raided the building early Thursday killing guards,
technicians and administrative staff. He says the head of the
station's board of directors was among the dead.

The manager says he could not speculate on who may have been behind
the attack.

In other violence, at least eight people were killed and many others
wounded in a series of bomb blasts in Baghdad.

The U.S. military said one American solider was killed and two others
wounded in action in northern Iraq on Wednesday.

The military says the soldiers were attacked while they conducted
operations in Kirkuk province.

Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.