BAGHDAD - An Iraqi official says police have arrested a man suspected of killing a well-known Iraqi TV journalist in 2006.
Atwar Bahjat of the Dubai-based Al-Arabiyah and two colleagues were abducted and slain while covering a Feb. 22 Shiite mosque bombing in her hometown of Samarra that set off years of sectarian violence.
Their bullet-riddled bodies were found the next day a few miles (kilometres) outside the city, north of Baghdad.
Al-Arabiyah reported Monday that Iraqi authorities informed the news station that the man confessed to killing her after he was arrested on separate robbery and assassination charges.
Iraqi military spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi has confirmed the arrest but provided no other details.
