NEW YORK, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A news editor for an Iraqi radio station was killed in Baghdad on Monday, the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists said. The group said unidentified gunmen killed Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi, 36, a news editor for privately owned Radio Dijla, shortly after he left his home in Baghdad's al-Washash neighborhood. "We offer our condolences to the family of Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi," said the Committee to Protect Journalists Executive Director Joel Simon in a statement. "He was a member of what has become one of the deadliest professions in Iraq. Iraqi journalists and media staff are constantly being targeted with impunity," he said. The committee said Radio Dijla had been previously targeted with the kidnapping in September of former broadcaster Muhammad Abdul Rahman, 55, who is still missing. The committee said 89 journalists -- including al-Dulaimi -- and 37 media support workers have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, making it the deadliest conflict in the committee's 25-year history.
