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Slaying of US writer in Basra is investigated

Had criticized police, warned about radicals

By Thanassis Cambanis
Globe Staff / August 4, 2005

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BAGHDAD -- American author and freelance journalist Steven Vincent, who was kidnapped and murdered late Tuesday in Basra, was an outspoken critic of the police force in the southern city and of the rise in what he called ''Islamo-fascism." (Full article: 828 words)

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