This news from Iraq: On Friday in Fallajuh, up to 16 people died including an ABC News cameraman who was shot by US soldiers, during gun battles. A U.S. Marine also died.

Witnesses said the Iraqi cameraman, Bourhan Mohammed, was shot in the head. Reporters Without Borders called on the US Army to “open an immediate investigation into this very serious incident.”

According to the group the U.S. has now killed seven journalists in the past year. A total of 23 media workers have died since the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Meanwhile the U.S. has shut down an Iraqi Shiite newspaper because it claimed the paper was inciting violence against U.S. troops. Over the weekend, dozens of U.S. troops arrived at the paper’s headquarters and padlocked the office door. The staff was threatened with arrest if they did not leave.

One Iraqi journalist said, “I guess this is the Bush edition of democracy.”

The paper had accused the head of the US occupation, Paul Bremer, of ruling the country and mistreating the Shiite population in a manner, “like Saddam.”