Iraqi editor shot dead in Baghdad

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi journalist was shot dead outside his home in a Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad on Sunday, neighbors and colleagues at his newspaper said.

They said Mohan al-Dhaher, a senior editor at the independent al-Mashriq daily newspaper, had just left his house to go to work when gunmen in two vehicles pulled up and tried to kidnap him.

When Dhaher resisted, the gunmen shot him dead, they said. Dhaher, who was about 50, was married and had four children, his neighbors said.