Kurdish ******r to be tried for journalist's murder
 

Baghdad, March 27 (IANS) A Kurdish ******r who killed a journalist at a presidential site in Baghdad will appear in court on a charge that could lead to his execution, the Iraqi federal judicial authority said Thursday. The Central Criminal Court set April 7 as the date for the public trial of the defendant accused of killing journalist Mohammed Bdiewi al-Shimmary, spokesman for the judicial authority, Abdul-Sattar al-Biraqdar, said in a statement posted on the authority's website. Shimmary, head of the Free Iraq Radio station and a media teacher, was shot dead Saturday in Baghdad's central district of Karrada after he had a dispute with the ******r and soldiers of the Kurdish brigade guarding a presidential site belonging to Iraq 's Kurdish President Jalal Talabani. Ahmed Ibrahim, a Kurdish ******r from the presidential brigade, said that the Kurdish presidency condemned the incident and would immediately hand over the suspect.

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