An Iraqi journalist working for a US-funded television network in Basra has been killed by gunmen
Police said al-Hurra correspondent Abdul-Hussein Khazal had been shot dead at his home in the mainly Shi'ite city. His three-year-old son was also killed.
Al-Hurra is a Virginia-based satellite news network set up with US funding to compete with Arabic channels such as al Jazeera and al Arabiya.
Separately in Baghdad, gunmen assassinated a senior government official after they dragged him from his car.
Earlier, gunmen kidnapped a senior Interior Ministry official, Colonel Riyadh Katei Aliwi.
