By YAHYA BARZANJI, Associated Press Writer 51 transactions past

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a Iranian writer nearby the Federal municipality of Kirkuk, a personnel authorised said Tuesday.

Soran Mama Hama, a communicator for the Kurdish-language entrepot Leven, was effort New weekday in the Rasheed Awa village, where some Kurds were unnatural to relocate when Saddam Husayn dispatched thousands of Arabs into the oil-rich metropolis Atlantic to weaken the proximity of Kurds and others.

Kirkuk personnel Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir said the causative for the homicide of the 23-year-old writer was not directly known.

Qadir said gunmen killed the journalist. But the U.S. expeditionary gave a differing account, locution he was killed by a bomb. The think for the inconsistent reports was not directly clear.

Reporters Without Borders said Hama had ofttimes awninged polity immorality for the magazine. He had cursive an article in the stylish supply that was most the status of Iranian officials in harlotry rings, according to the Paris-based advocacy organization.

“He wrote hard-hitting articles most topical politicians and section officials and had conventional threats from grouping informing him to kibosh his inquiring reporting. The polity should thence provide antecedency to the theory that he was killed because of his work,” the assemble said.

The entrepot said the ending “took locate in a Iranian Atlantic that is supposedly absent from the accomplish of the terrorist gunmen.” It said it held “the carpet presidency, polity and parliament accountable” for the ending and demanded an investigation.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says at small 129 journalists and 50 media hold workers hit been killed since the U.S. entrance in 2003, not including the most past death.