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US journalist shot dead in Iraq

Steven Vincent had been staying in the southern city of Basra
An American freelance journalist and author has been found shot dead in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the US embassy said.
Police on Wednesday said Steven Vincent was shot several times after he and his Iraqi translator were abducted at gunpoint hours earlier.
'I can confirm to you that officials in Basra have recovered the body of journalist Steven Vincent,' said embassy spokesman Pete Mitchell.
'The US embassy is working with British military and local Iraqi officials in Basra to determine who is responsible for the death of this journalist. Our condolences go out to the family.'
The embassy did not give the cause of death.
However, Iraqi police in Basra said Vincent was abducted along with his female translator at gunpoint on Tuesday evening. The translator, Nour Weidi, was seriously wounded.
Vincent and the translator were taken by five men in a police car as they left a currency exchange shop, police Lieutenant Colonel Karim al-Zaidi said.
Vincent's body was found on the side of the highway south of Basra later. He had been shot in the head and multiple times on his body, al-Zaidi said.
The author published a book on life in post-Saddam Iraq