Sticky bomb kills Iraqi journalist

April 03, 2012 18:05

The Sticky Bomb is back in the news. It was recently in the news, when it was used during the car bombing of the Israeli diplomat in New Delhi.

Today, a sticky bomb killed an Iraqi television presenter working for a local TV station in Salaheddin province in central Iraq. Kamiran Salaheddin, a presenter for Salaheddin Channel, was killed in central Tikrit by a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to his car, as he drove home from work.

Salaheddin, 34, and father-of-two was the second journalist killed in Iraq this year, according to the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, an Iraq-based media rights group.

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