Another journalist has fallen victim to the insurgents in Iraq--note that I say insurgents and not "Iraqi resistance," as some fellow leftists, such as Amy Goodman at Democracy Now, insist on calling them. The lead to today's New York Times story is below.

This is a reminder that despite the outrageous and dishonest invasion of Iraq by the Bush administration, the people now fighting that invasion are no friends to the Iraqi people but fascists who would impose a tyrannical rule as bad as that of Saddam. One journalist may not count much against the thousands of other civilians killed in the country since the invasion, but without our courageous reporters we would have little or no idea of what is really going on there.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Sept. 19 - An Iraqi journalist and photographer working for The New York Times in Basra was found dead early Monday after being abducted from his home by a group of armed men wearing masks and claiming to be police officers, relatives and witnesses said.

The journalist, Fakher Haider, 38, was found with his hands bound and a bag over his head in a deserted area on the outskirts of Basra, in southern Iraq, hours after being taken from his house in that city. A relative who viewed his body in the city morgue said he had at least one bullet hole in his head and bruises on his back as if he had been beaten.

Mr. Haider had worked for The Times since April 2003 and had recently reported on the growing friction and violence among Basra's rival Shiite militias, which are widely believed to have infiltrated the police.