Baghdad Man Killed by Addison Jordan

Summary: A journalist by the name of Mohammed Bdaiwi, chief of Radio Free Iraq at the Baghdad bureau, was shot and killed on Saturday in Baghdad, police say.

            Mohammed was on his way to work near the residence of Iraq’s president, Jalal Talabani, when a military guard confronted him at the gate. Bdaiwi and the guard started getting into an argument and the guard ended up shooting him.

            According to his media outlet, “Bdaiwi was driving his car through the guarded gate at the compound that houses his bureau as well as the presidential residence when he got in an argument with a guard.”

            After the guard shot Bdaiwi, he fled inside the compound. The guard was eventually caught and handed over to the police once Iraq’s prime minister demanded that he be taken into custody. In addition to Bdaiwi being a journalist, he was an author and a professor at a university in Baghdad.

           

Analysis: Even if Bdaiwi was at fault for the argument, there was still no reason to shoot and kill him. I’m glad that the prime minister got involved and put the security guard in jail. If Bdaiwi had any family I feel sorry for them, because it appears that he died because of a senseless argument.  We need to all be able to contain our emotions, and not confront people unnecessarily.  You just never know when the person you start an argument will snap becasue something fatal could happen.

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/22/world/meast/iraq-violence/index.html?hpt=wo_c2