Washington Post special correspondent killed in Iraq

A reporter for the Washington Post was shot to death today in Baghdad, Iraq.

The Washington Post said Salih Saif Aldin was shot and killed while taking photographs of several houses that were burned.

The paper said the killing was a deliberate attack on the reporter.

Salih Saif Aldin, 32, was shot once in the head, apparently at close range, other details of the killing remained unclear.

Aldin was killed in the Saydia neighborhood of Baghdad, one of the last areas of the capital where Sunni insurgent fighters remain and have fought against the encroachment of Shiite militia fighters.

Originally from Tikrit, where he started as a freelance reporter for The Post, Mr. Saif Aldin moved to Baghdad and began working as a staff reporter in early 2004.