the kurdish city of erbil in northern iraq. she was malta's best known investigative journalist yesterday she was killed by a car bomb. one year was known for her reports accusing the government of corruption she exposed what she said were links between government officials and secret bank accounts in panama ulti as prime minister josef was caught cold the murder of barbaric act but he also acknowledged that she was one of his harshest critics definitely cairo on a girlie theo's car exploded just after she had driven away from her home in master town outside boxes kept of the latter the force of the blast flung her vehicle over a wall into a field the journalist had filed a report with the police two weeks ago but she was receiving threats some three thousand people gathered for a vigil on monday evening to mourn her death she was an anti corruption crusader