Michael Kelly, a former editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Monthly who was covering the war in Iraq, was killed along with an American soldier in an accident involving their Humvee military jeep, magazine staff and US officials said on Friday.The Atlantic Monthly said Kelly, embedded with the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, died on Thursday night while on assignment. He also wrote a weekly syndicated column for The Washington Post.The cause of the accident is still under investigation, US officials said. Kelly, who was until recently editor-in-chief at The Atlantic Monthly, covered the 1991 Gulf War as a freelance correspondent for The New Republic, GQ, and The Boston Globe. He was the fourth journalist killed in action in the two-week-old war. The toll equals the total number killed in the First Gulf War.
