Ahmed Shawkat

From the news reports:

"He used to write against the resistance, against the Americans, against the local government and the former government. He had integrity," the daughter said.

AP 28 Oct 2003

Just days before, his father had told him, "The word 'fear' is not in my dictionary," he said.

Shawkat, a soft-spoken middle-aged man who trained as a biologist before becoming a journalist, was filled with plans when Hussein's regime ended. Persecuted by Iraqi security forces for his outspoken critiques of the regime when Hussein was still in power, he had fled to the semi-independent Kurdish areas in the north, but when the dictator was toppled, he returned to Mosul, his native city, and started the independent newspaper Bilattjah, which means No Direction.

LAT 02 Nov 2003