Salihee's brother describes the Army report on his death as a cover-up meant to protect U.S. and Iraqi soldiers from wrongdoing, and like most in the neighborhood where Salihee was killed, believes that Salihee had stopped before he was shot.[1] Hannah Allam calls the investigation "callous,"[11] but also wrote that "there's no reason to think that the shooting had anything to do with [Salihee's] reporting work."[3] James Cogan, writing for the World Socialist Web Site, states that Salihee's "last assignment gives reason to suspect that it was," citing Salihee's effort to investigate alleged death squads.[4] Davies writes that "the links between the forces Yasser Salihee was investigating and the ones that killed him cast a long dark shadow over his death."[5] According to the Daily Kos blog, three journalists, including Steve Vincent, Yasser Salihee and Fakher Haider, were shot to death in Iraq in 2005 while investigating Interior Ministry commandos.[12] After interviewing the American soldier and nearby witnesses, Robertson concluded that the death was tragic but "a typical misunderstanding, of the sort that happens all the time in Iraq."[7]