IRAQI RESISTANCE

straitstimes: Guerilla attacks spreading to Western civilian targets

BAGHDAD - Rogue Iraqi elements have killed a British journalist and attacked a United Nations compound, raising fears that Iraqi insurgents are widening their targets from coalition troops to Westerners in general.
With three more United States soldiers killed in separate incidents over the past two days, some US military officials are worried that such attacks on foreigners will hamper news gathering and humanitarian efforts.

British journalist Richard Wild, who arrived in the country two weeks ago to be a war correspondent, showed no outward signs of being a reporter.

Around midday on Saturday, he was killed by a single pistol shot fired into the base of his skull at close range, colleagues said.

On the same day, insurgents also fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the UN's International Organisation for Migration office in Mosul, 386km north-west of Baghdad.