The Scotsman is reporting that American journalist Steven Vincent may have been killed because he was planning to marry a Muslim.

An American journalist who was shot dead in Basra last week was executed by Shiite extremists who knew he was intending to marry his Muslim interpreter, it has emerged.

Steven Vincent was shot a week before the planned wedding to Nouriya Itais and had already delivered a dollars 2,500 dowry to her family.

via Religion News Blog