As reported in Western press the 32-year-old Iraqi reporter in The Washington Post’s Baghdad bureau, Salih Saif Aldin, was shot in the forehead in the southwestern neighborhood of Sadiyah. Readers of The Washington Post have known soon that S. Aldin was killed “while taking photographs on a street where several houses had been burned”.
But I’d like to tell you more details about this tragedy. The matter is that I’m also one of the Iraqi journalists, worked at Western news organizations in Baghdad. And I don’t believe in the version of those who are sure that Sunni insurgents or Shiite militiamen are responsible for his death, because all of his colleagues here know that S. Aldin has often come across various people from the Mahdi Army, which is the Shiite militia loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and kept company with Sunni militants.
But why does nobody tell about such well-known fact from Aldin’s biography as receiving him a letter, demanded to leave journalism and to leave his hometown of Tikrit under the threat of death? When he refused to do it, he was beaten and dismissed by the leadership of that wording, where he had worked in Tikrit. Later he moved to Baghdad, where he continued to met with Sunni and Shiite leaders and then to tell the truth about riotous behavior of soldiers from the Iraqi army, who were accused by him of killing our local population together with Americans and kidnapping local residents.
So there are no doubts for me that S. Aldin was put out of the way by forces of western special services that have numerous own private protection agencies on the territory of this country. More specifically it is ten to one that it has been done by British agents, worked here under the cloak of so-called AEGIS SPECIALIST RISK MANAGEMENT. Well, certainly it’s the best way for UK to show its commitment to American allies!