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www.brusselstribunal.org/JournalistKilled.htm A - ASSASSINATED IRAQI MEDIA PROFESSIONALS

Nr Name Profession Date Incident Age Gende

r Source

1 Qomran Abdul Razzaq translator in the BBC 6/04/2003 killed when the American troops bombed a Kurdish convoy in the

north of Iraq 25 M

06.04.2003 - Kamaran

Abdurazaq Muhamed, translator, BBC

2 Unknown interpreter Iraqi interpreter working for

Malaysian journalists 12/04/2003

killed when gunmen ambushed and kidnapped the group in Baghdad.

M

3 Waleed Khalifa Hassan Al-

Dulami Elisabeth Neuffer's translator 9/05/2003 died in the accident where Elisabeth Neuffer died, near Samarra. M

4 Aqeel Mohammad Rasheed

Al-Janabi editor in chief of Al-Faiha

newspaper 24/06/2003 killed by knife stabs in his town Hilla M

5 Ahmad Kareem reporter , Kurdistan Satellite

Channel 25/08/2003

shot and killed by U.S. forces outside the bureau's office along the Tigris River. M

02.07.2003 - Ahmad Karim, Kurdistan Satellite TV

6 Ahmad Shawkat editor in Bila-Itijah weekly 28/10/2003 killed by two armed men who raided his house and shot him M 28.10.2003 - Ahmed

Shawkat, Bila Ittijah

7 Doraid Issa Mohamad translator and producer in CCN 27/01/2004 shot in an ambush in Baghdad outskirts 27 M 27.01.2004 - Duraid Isa

Mohammed, producer and translator, CNN

8 Yassir Khattab driver with CNN 27/01/2004 shot in an ambush in Baghdad outskirts 25 M 27.01.2004 - Yasser Khatab,

driver, CNN

9 Abdul Sattar Abdul Kareem photographer 1/02/2004 killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union

and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked M

10 Ayoob Mohamad Salih cameraman, Kurdistan Satellite

Channel 1/02/2004

killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked

M

11 Ghareeb Mohamad Salih cameraman KSC 1/02/2004 killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union

and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked M

12 Heiman Mohamad Salih cameraman in Qulan TV 1/02/2004 killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union

and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked M

13 Kamiran Mohamad Omar freelancer 1/02/2004 killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union

and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked M

14 Mahdi Khashnaw Nassree, Kurdish newspaper, editor

in chief 1/02/2004

killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked

M

15 Mahdi Saad Abdulla Thiraeei newspaper editor-in-Chief 1/02/2004 killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union

and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked M

16 Nassih Saleem freelancer 1/02/2004 killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union

and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked M

17 Safeer Nadir camera man in Qulan TV (KDP), 1/02/2004 killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union

and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked M

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18 Salah Saidak Itihad editor–in-Chief 1/02/2004 killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union

and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked M

19 Shawkat Sheikh Yazdeen publisher 1/02/2004 killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union

and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked M

20 Simko Kareem Mohiddeen free Lance cameraman 1/02/2004 killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union

and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked M

21 Mahmood Awad Hamadi Al-Jazeera newspaper editor-in-

Chief 2/03/2004 killed by the American troops in Falluja 33 M

22 Selwan Abdelghani Medhi

al-Niemi freelance translator working for the

U.S.-funded Voice of America 5/03/2004

fatally shot while driving home from a relative's house. His mother and 4-year-old daughter were also killed. VOA said a motive had not

been established. Al-Niemi's wife, Ban Adil Serhan, a former translator for the U.S.-based media company Knight-Ridder, told CPJ that she believes she was also an intended target _ and that the assailants mistook al-Niemi's mother for her.

M

23 Majeed Rasheed technician in IMN 18/03/2004 shot by armed men in Diyala (Baquba) M 18.03.2004 - Majid Rachid,

technician, Diyala Television

24 Mohamad Ahmad Sarhan Security agent with IMN 18/03/2004 shot by armed men in Diyala (Baquba) M 18.03.2004 - Mohamad

Ahmad, security agent, Diyala

Television

25 Ali Abdul Azziz cameraman, Al-Arabiya Satellite 18/03/2004 shot by the American troops 35 M 18.03.2004 - Ali Abdel Aziz,

Al-Arabiya

26 Ali Al-Khateeb Al-Arabiya correspondent 18/03/2004 shot by the American troops in Baghdad 32 M 18.03.2004 - Ali Al-Khatib, Al-

Arabiya

27 Nadia Nasrat announcer in the Iraqi Media Net 18/03/2004 shot by armed men in Diyala (Baquba) F 18.03.2004 - Nadia Nasrat,

Diyala Television

28 Burhan Mohamad Mazhoor cameraman, ABC 26/03/2004 shot by the American troops in Falluja 34 M 26.03.2004 - Bourhan

Mohammad al-Louhaybi , ABC News

29 Omar Hashim Kamil reporter, Time magazine 26/03/2004 shot by armed men in Baghdad M 26.03.2004 - Omar Hashim

Kamal, translator, Time

30 As'ad Kadim Iraqiya TV reporter 19/04/2004 shot by the American troops In Samarra, with his driver M 19.04.2004 - Assad Kadhim,

Al-Iraqiya TV

31 Husein Salih driver, Al-Iraqiya 19/04/2004 shot by the American troops in Samarra M 29.04.2004 - Hussein Saleh,

driver, Al-Iraquiya TV

32 Rasheed Hamid Wali cameraman in Al-Jazeera news

channel 21/05/2004 shot by unknown fire source, in Karbala M

21.05.2004 - Rachid Hamid

Wali, cameraman assistant, Al-Jazira

33 Unknown Translator 25/05/2004 M 25.05.2004 - Unknown,

translator

34 Muhammad Aldin interpreter working for Japanese

freelance journalists Shinsuke

Hashida and Kotaro Ogawa

27/05/2004

killed along with the two journalists when their car was attacked by gunmen in Mahmoudiya, 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of Baghdad, according to news reports. (Agence France-Presse (AFP) listed the

interpreter as Mohamed Najmedin

M 27.05.2004 - Muhammad

Aldin, translator, Le Soir

35 Mahmood Ismael Dawood reporter, Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed

newspaper 29/05/2004 shot by armed men in Baghdad M

29.05.2004 - Mahmoud Ismael Daood, bodyguard, Al-Sabah al-Jadid

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36 Samiya Abd al-Jabir administrator and technician, Al-

Sabah Al-Jadeed 29/05/2004 shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad F

29.05.2004 - Samia Abdeljabar, driver, Al-Sabah al-Jadid

37 Sahar Saad Al-Noaimi reporter in Meezan and Al-Hayat

Al-Jadida 3/06/2004 killed when a grenade was thrown on his car in Kerkuk F

03.06.2004 - Sahar Saad Eddine Nouami, Al-Mizan, Al-Khaima, Al-Hayat Al-Gadida

38 Abdel Karim Jassem technician of Al-Iraqiya TV station 12/06/2004 Killed in Al Qaim [source: IBC] M

39 Jawad Kassem Hamadi driver of Al-Iraqiya TV station 12/06/2004 Killed in Al Qaim [source: IBC] M

40 Husam Ali freelance cameraman 15/08/2004 killed in Falluja by unknown armed men M 15.08.2004 - Hossam Ali,

freelance

41 Mahmood Hamid Abbass cameraman, German TV 15/08/2004 shot by unknown armed men in Fallujah 32 M 15.08.2004 - Mahmoud

Hamid Abbas, ZDF

42 Isam Hadi Muhsin Al-

Shumary Cameraman Südost Media 15/08/2004 Still missing, probably killed M

http://www.rsf.org/special_iraq_en.php3

43 Ali Jabir Iraqi journalist accompanying the

Italian journalist Enzo Baldini 21/08/2004

killed by armed men near Najaf, after the Italian journalist was

kidnapped M

44 Jamal Tafeeq Salman photographer, Gazeta Wyborcza

August 25, 2004 25/08/2004 shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad M

25.08.2004 - Jamal Tawfiq Salmane, Gazeta Wyborcza

45 Ghareeb driver working for freelance

journalist Enzo Baldoni 28/08/2004

The driver and Baldoni were ambushed by gunmen while traveling outside Baghdad, accordinmg to news reports and CPJ sources. The two were reported missing on August 20. They were believed to be

heading to the southern city of Najaf, where U.S. forces had battled with Shiite insurgents for several weeks

M

46 Ismael Tahir Mohsin reporter for AP 2/09/2004 shot near his house by unknown armed men M 02.09.2004 - Ismaïl Taher

Mohsin, Associated Press

47 Ahmad Jasim reporter, Al-Iraqiya 7/10/2004 shot by unknown armed men M 7.10.2004 - Ahmad Jassem,

Nivive television

48 Dina Mohamad Hassan reporter to Al-Huriya TV 14/10/2004 killed in Adhamiya by armed men 38 F 14.10.2004 - Dina Mohamad

Hassan, Al Hurriya Television

49 Karam Hussein photographer 14/10/2004 Pressphoto, killed in Mosul M 14.10.2004 - Karam Hussein,

European Pressphoto Agency

50 Liqa' Abdul Razzaq newsreader in Al-Sharqiya TV 27/10/2004 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad F 27.10.2004 - Liqaa Abdul-

Razzaq, Al-Sharqiya

51 Unknown translator translator 27/10/2004 Gunmen killed Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, an Iraqi news reader, and her

translator on their way home from work at al-Sharqiya television in Baghdad.

M

52 Nasralla Al-Dawoodi editor-in-chief of Al-Iraq Daily 30/10/2004 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad 55 M

53 Ali Adnan technician, Al-Arabiya 30/10/2004 car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office M

54 Hassan Alwan Al Dehlegi Al-Arabiya 30/10/2004 car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office 30 M

55 Nabeel hassan Al-Arabiya 30/10/2004 car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office M

56 Ramziya Moushi Al-Arabiya 30/10/2004 car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office F

57 Alahin Hussein Al-Arabiya 30/10/2004 car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office F

58 Wadallah Sarhan editor-in-chief Akhbar Al-Mosul 1/11/2004 killed by unknown armed men near his home M

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59 Dhia Najim cameraman, Reuters 1/11/2004 shot by an American sniper in his head when he was covering the

fighting between armed men and the American troops 47 M

01.11.2004 - Dhia Najim, Reuters

60 Maisoon Abdul Hafidh editing designer, in Al-Jumhoriya

newspaper 10/01/2005 killed near her office in Baghdad F

61 Muayd Sámi editor-in-chief of the Parliament

news paper in Baquba 13/01/2005 killed by unknown armed men M

62 Ali Dhia Hassan reporter in al-Nahdha newspaper 16/01/2005 shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad 27 M

63 Huda Dhia Hassan Ali Dhia Hassan's sister, reporter in

Nahdha newspaper 16/01/2005 shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad F

64 Fadhil Hussein Al-Khafaji reporter in Al-Da'wa newspaper 30/01/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad M

65 Dawod Qassim reporter, The German Radio 4/02/2005 killed with his wife and father by unknown armed men in Baghdad M

66 Abdul Hussein el-Fayath Al-Hurra satellite channel reporter 9/02/2005 killed with his son,3, by unknown armed men in Basra 40 M 09.02.2005 - Abdel Hussein

Khazaal, Al-Hurra TV

67 Dler Karam Ali Kurdish journalist working for the

Al-Ittihad Al-Isalmi and Al-Ofoq Al-

Islami newspapers

12/02/2005

shot and injured by US forces on the road between Baghdad and Darbandikhan, in Northern Iraq. He died 3 days later in hospital. He was passing through a US military checkpoint on his way to cover the elections when US soldiers on duty asked the car to stop, the driver

refused and the soldiers started shooting at the car, seriously injuring Karam Ali.

M

68 Unidentified driver

driver working for Mohammad Sherif Ali, an Iraqi journalist working

for Al-Hurra, a U.S.-funded Arabic television station

25/02/2005

killed when gunmen attacked their car in Iskandiriyah, a town

about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Baghdad. Ali was seriously injured in the attack.

M

69 Raida Al-Wazzan announcer in Al-Iraqiya satellite TV 28/02/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 35 F 25.02.2005 - Raeda

Mohammed Wageh Wazzan, Iraqiya

70 Laiq Ibrahim reporter in Kurdistan radio 10/03/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Kerkuk M 10.03.2005 - Laik Ibrahim,

Kurdistan-TV

71 Husan Hilal Sarsam cameraman in Kurdistan TV 14/03/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 27 M 14.03.2005 - Houssam Hilal

Sarsam, Kurdistan-TV

72 Ali Ibrahim Issa cameraman, Al-Hurriya TV 14/04/2005 killed in an explosion near the interior ministry in Baghdad M 14.04.2005 - Ali Abrahim

Aissa, Al-Hurriya TV

73 Fadhil Hazim Fadhil Al-Hurriya TV reporter 14/04/2005 killed in an explosion near the interior ministry in Baghdad 35 M 14.04.2005 - Fadel Hazem

Fadel, Al-Hurriya TV

74 Ahmad Abdul Jabbar

Hashim reporter in Al-Sabah Daily 1/04/2005 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men M

01.04.2005 - Ahmed Jabbar

Hashim, Al Sabah

75 Shadman Abdullah Izzedine a prominent personality on Kirkuk

TV 15/04/2005

Unidentified assailants gunned down Izzedine and Abdullah, as they were driving on the main highway from Kirkuk to Baghdad. Kurdish journalists in Kirkuk said that their car was fired on by a group of armed men driving in a black Nissan. Local journalists also said that Kirkuk TV's anti-insurgent stance has made it vulnerable to attack

from armed groups, and they believe Izzedine was targeted for his work with the station.

M 15.04.2005 - Shamal

Abdallah Assad, Kirkuk TV,

Kurdsat

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76 Laiq Abdullah assistant of Shadman Abdullah

Izzedine 15/04/2005

Unidentified assailants gunned down Izzedine and Abdullah, as they were driving on the main highway from Kirkuk to Baghdad. Kurdish journalists in Kirkuk said that their car was fired on by a group of armed men driving in a black Nissan. Local journalists also said that

Kirkuk TV's anti-insurgent stance has made it vulnerable to attack from armed groups, and they believe Izzedine, a prominent personality on Kirkuk TV, was targeted for his work with the station.

M

77 Ahmed Al Rubai'i

reporter and editor at the U.S.-backed daily Al-Sabah who also

worked in the media department of the Iraqi National Assembly

15/04/2005

disappeared in mid-April and is presumed dead. No body has been found. However, his press pass was found in the possession of several criminals arrested in June, and they told authorities that he

had been beheaded because he was a "traitor." his newspaper work, al-Rubai'i became a media officer for the National Assembly a few months before his disappearance.

M

78 Salih Ibrahim AP reporter 23/04/2005 killed in an explosion targeting the American troops in Baghdad M 23.04.2005 - Saleh Ibrahim,

Associated Press

79 Najat Mohamad Karim administrator, in Dijla radio 26/04/2005 targeted by a sniper in his office in Baghdad M

80 Qasim Mohamad guard, Dijla radio 26/04/2005 targeted by a sniper in his office in Baghdad M

81 Ahmad Adam Mostafa journalist and writer in Al-Mada

Daily 15/05/2005 slaughtered by unknown armed men in Yousfiya M

15.05.2005 - Ahmad Adam,

Al-Madaa and Sabah

82 Ali Jassem Al Rumi freelance reporter 15/05/2005 slaughtered by unknown armed men in Yousfiya M

83 Najim Abid Khudheir freelance reporter 15/05/2005 slaughtered by unknown armed men in Yousfiya M 15.05.2005 - Najem Abed

Khodair, Al-Madaa and Tariq al-

Shaab

84 Jerges Mohammed Sultan journalist of Al-Iraqiya 31/05/2005 killed near his house by unknown armed men M

85 Haydar Al-Jourani reporter of Al-da'wa newspaper In

Najaf 1/06/2005 killed by the American troops in the fighting with the Mahdi Army M

86 Muhammad Khalaf Reporter 10/06/2005 Saadi Khalaf, an Oil Ministry employee; Muhammad Khalaf, a

reporter, Esam Fadhil, their cousin, found bound, tortured, gunshot wounds in Dora, Baghdad.[source: IBC]

M

87 Ahmad Khalid Sultan reporter of Al-Sad newspaper,

member of Young Journalists

Association

17/06/2005 killed by unknown armed men west of Baghdad M

88 Jasim Al-Qaissi reporter in Al-Siyada newspaper 22/06/2005 killed in his car with his son north of Baghdad M 22.06.2005 - Jassim Al Qais,

Al Siyada

89 Jasim Al-Sheikhly freelance journalist 22/06/2005 killed by unknown armed men M

90 Maha Ibrahim editor-in-chief, Baghdad TV 26/06/2005 shot by the American troops in Baghdad F 03.07.2005 - Maha Ibrahim,

Baghdad TV

91 Ahmad Wa'il Al-bakri TV director in Al-Sharqiya TV 28/06/2005 shot by the American troops in Baghdad M 28.06.2005 - Wael Al Bakri,

Al Charkiyah

92 Yassir Al-Salihi reporter to an American media

group Night Ridder 30/06/2005 shot in his car by the American troops 30 M

22.06.2005 - Yasser Al

Salihy, Knight Ridder

93 Hadi Hassan Al-Shamari editing secretary Biladi magazine 1/07/2005 killed by unknown armed men M

94 Khalid Sabih Al-Attar producer and presenter in Al-

Iraqiya TV 1/07/2005 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 43 M

01.07.2005 - Khaled Sabih al

Attar, al-Iraqia

95 Haider Karim Azawi INNA journalist 2/07/2005 Journalist shot dead by US forces in Baghdad [source: IBC] M

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96 Adnan Al-Bayati producer and presenter in the

Italian TV 23/07/2005 killed in his house in Baghdad by unknown armed men M

23.07.2005 - Adnan Al Bayati, Rai, Mediaset, TG3 and Panorama

97 Nouriya Itais translator of Steven Vincent 2/08/2005 kidnapped and shot down by unknown armed men F

98 Abdul Qadir Mohamad Al-

Badrani

reporter in Iraqiyoon News Agency,

worked also for Reuters, was married and had 3 children.

8/08/2005 shot by the US and Iraqi troops in Falluja 31 M

99 Unknown Iraqi journalist Unknown 10/08/2005 In another development, an Iraqi journalist was shot dead by Iraqi

soldiers as he was driving his car near their patrol on a main road in

Fallujah, local residents said. M

100 Zaid Mohamad Salloom Al-

Zubaidi driver in Al-Hurra news channel 12/08/2005 killed by unknown armed men south of Baghdad M

101 Rafed Al Rubaii Al Irakiya 27/08/2005 M 27.08.2005 - Rafed Al Rubaii,

Al Irakiya

102 Rafid Mahmood Said al-

Anbagy radio presenter in Diyala, IMN 27/08/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Al-Gatoon area M

103 Raed Mahmud TV director/journalist in Baquba 27/08/2005 Shot down in Baquba [source: IBC] M

104 Hayder Kadhim reporter, Reuters 29/08/2005 shot by the American troops in Hay Al-Adil in Baghdad while he was

covering the fighting M

105 Walid Khaled Ibrahim reporter, Reuters 29/08/2005 shot by the American troops in Hay Al-Adil in Baghdad while he was

covering the fighting 35 M

28.08.2005 - Waleed Khaled, Reuters TV

106 Firas Al-Ma'adhidi Al-Safeer newspaper reporter 16/09/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 40 M 21.09.2005 - Firas Al-

Maadhidi, Al-Safir

107 Sabah Mohssin Al-Iraqiya 17/09/2005 M 17.09.2005 - Sabah Mohssin,

Al-Iraqiya

108 Haydar Fakhir Al-Tamimi New York Times reporter and

director of Al-Mirbad News Channel 19/09/2005 kidnapped and killed in Basra 38 M

19.09.2005 - Fakher Haydar Al-Tamimi, New York Times

109 Hind Ismael Al-Safeer newspaper reporter in

Mosul 20/09/2005 killed by unknown armed men 28 F

20.09.2005 - Hind Ismail, Al-

Safir

110 Ahlam Yousif Tv engineer, Al-Iraqiya TV 22/09/2005 killed in Mosul by unknown armed men F 21.09.05 - Ahlam Youssef ,

Al-Iraqiya TV

111 Bassem al-Fadli manager of Al-Iraqiya TV station 22/09/2005 killed in Mosul by unknown armed men M

112 Sabah Salmane journalist 1/09/2005 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22998 M

113 Mohamad Haroon Al-

Fatlawi

secretary general of Iraqi Journalists Union, editor-in-chief of Al-Qadhiya Daily

19/10/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad 37 M 19.10.2005 - Mohamed

Haroun, Union of Iraqi Journalists general secretary

114 Ahmad Hussein Al-Maliki reporter in Tallafar newspaper 7/11/2005 kidnapped for two months then killed by unknown armed men in

Musol M

07.11.2005 - Ahmed Hussein Al Maliki, Tall Afar

115 Akeel Abdul Ridha Al-Iraqiya 28/11/2005 killed by unknown armed men 55 M 28.11.2005 - Akeel Abdul

Rwdha, AL-Iraqia

116 Muqdad Muhsin Al-Iraqiya 28/11/2005 killed by unknown armed men M

117 Abdul Salaam Ahmad reporter in Al-Soumariya TV 10/12/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad M

118 Khalid Muhammad Al-Iraqiyah TV station employee 27/12/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad M

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119 Alan Anoi translator, Christian Science

Monitor 7/01/2006

killed when the American journalist Jill Carol was kidnapped in Baghdad

33 M 10.01.2006 - Allan Enwiyah,

American journalist Jill Carroll’s interpreter

120 Sarmad Salman freelance sports reporter 10/01/2006 kidnapped and killed by armed men in Baghdad M

121 Mahmood Za'al reporter Baghdad TV 14/01/2006 killed by the American troops in Khaldiya 35 M 25.01.2006 - Mahmoud Zaal,

Television cameraman at

Baghdad TV satellite channel

122 Luaay Salam Radeef Al-Baghdadia 16/01/2006 M 16.01.2006 - Luaay Salam

Radeef, Al-Baghdadia Cameraman

123 Hamza Hussein sports reporter, Al-Diyar TV 22/01/2006 killed in a car bomb in Baghdad 18 M 23.01.2006 - Hamza

Hussein, sport journalist at

private TV station Al-Diyar

124 Abdul Razzaq A-Na'as writer and professor of journalism

in Baghdad university 29/01/2006 shot by unknown armed men, in Baghdad M

125 Mohammad Siddik driver and security guard who

worked part time with the Voice of America

17/02/2006

shot and killed by an unknown assailant near his home in the

Doura section of Baghdad. The attack took place shortly after Siddik dropped a VOA correspondent at Baghdad airport. The assailant approached Siddik and shot him in the head and torso while Siddik waited in line to buy cooking oil at a shop near his home

M

126 Raeda Wazzan news anchor with the Iraqi state

TV channel Al-Iraqiya 20/02/2006

kidnapped on February 20, was found dead five days later on a roadside in Mosul, where the journalist had lived and worked, according to press reports citing her husband. She had been shot in

the head repeatedly. Gunmen had also kidnapped Wazzan's 10-year-old son, but he was released days later

F

127 Adnan Kheiralla tv engineer, Al-Arabiya 23/02/2006 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen 36 M 23.02.2006 - Adnane

Kahïnallah, sound recordist Al-Arabiya

128 Atwar Bahjat Al-Arabiya correspondent 23/02/2006 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen 30 F 23.02.2006 - Atwar Bahjat,

al-Arabiya TV

129 Khalid Mahmood Al-Falahi Al-Arabiya cameraman 23/02/2006 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen 39 M 23.02.2006 - Khaled

Mahmoud Al-Falahi, cameraman Al-Arabiya

130 Khaled Mohsen Al-Arabiya sound technician 23/02/2006 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen M

131 Monsif Abdulla Al-Khalidi news director in Baghdad TV 7/03/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 35 M 07.03.2006 - Monsef Al-

Khalidi, Baghdad TV Sat

Channel

132 Amjad Hamid Mohsin Al-Iraqiya TV director 11/03/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad, including his driver M 11.03.2006 - Amjad Hameed,

Al-Iraqiya

133 Anwar Turky driver, Al-Iraqiya TV 11/03/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad M 11.03.2006 - Anwar Turky,

Amjad Hameed’s driver, Al-

Iraqiya

134 Mohsin Khodeir editor-in-chief, Alefba' magazine 13/03/2006 killed by unknown armed men M 13.03.2006 - Muhsin

Khudhair, Alef Ba

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135 Ali Hamid Al-Mayahi reporter in Al-Da'wa newspaper 19/03/2006 killed by the American-Iraqi joint troops when he was covering a

military raid on a mosques in Baghdad M

136 Kamil Manahi Anbar

reporter in Al-Nahar and

correspondent of the Institute of

War and Peace Journalism

19/03/2006 killed by the American-Iraqi joint troops when he was covering a

military raid on a mosques in Baghdad M

26.03.2006 - Kamal Manahi Anbar, Institute for War and

Peace Reporting

137 So'oud Muzahim al-

Shoumari correspondent for the Egypt-based

satellite channel Al-Baghdadia 4/04/2006

found shot in Baghdad's southern district of Doura on April 4 by Iraqi police and taken to Yarmouk hospital morgue.

M

138 Abdul Jalil Jasim Al-

Mahamadawi reporter in Al-Risala newspaper 8/04/2006

killed in a suicide explosion while he was covering a Friday prayer in a mosque in Baghdad

M

139 Qusai Al-Amiri media coordinator in Al-Bilad radio 22/04/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad M 22.04.2006 - Qussay

Kahdban, radio Al-Bilad

140 Sa'd Shammari TV journalist who hosted a show

on the Al-Iraqiyah channel 5/05/2006

found wrapped in a blanket and dumped on the side of a road in

Baghdad. The journalist was apparently strangled. M

141 Sa'ud M'Zahim Al Hudaythi working for Baghdadiyah TV 5/05/2006 Circumstances are unknown. M

142 Abdel Majid al-Mehmedawi reported on social issues 5/05/2006 murdered by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad’s center, according

to local sources. The motive for his killing was unknown. M

143 Ismail Mohammad Khalaf Al Sabah 7/05/2006 killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad M 7.05.2006 - Ismail

Mohammad Khalaf, Al Sabah

144 Laith Mishan al-Dulaimi Iraqi journalist, Al-Nahrain TV, a

private station 8/05/2006

found dead south of Baghdad, a day after they were stopped by men wearing police uniforms

M 7.05.2006 - Leith Al-

Doulaïmi, Al-Nahrain

145 Muazaz Ahmed Barood Iraqi journalist, Al-Nahrain TV, a

private station 8/05/2006

found dead south of Baghdad, a day after they were stopped by men wearing police uniforms

28 M 7.05.2006 - Mouazaz Baroud,

Al-Nahrain

146 Abed Shaker al Delaimi

Photographer for Jumhureyya and

al Qadeseyya newspapers and occasional freelance for Reuters

8/05/2006 killed in Basra by unknown armed men 29 M 5.05.2006 - Abdel Chaker Al

Dalimi, Independant photographer

147 Saud M’Zahim Al-Hedaithi Baghdadiyah TV 8/05/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad M 5.05.2006 - Saoud Mazahem

Al-Hadithi, Al-Baghdadia

148 Abbas Ahmed Kadhem journalist at al Adaalah (Justice)

newspaper 10/05/2006

was found dead in al Madaen. This is the same district where Laith Mashaan and Muazaz Ahmed were murdered on Sunday May 7th.

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149 Muzahim al-Hadithi worked for a pro-Sunni Iraqi

television station 11/05/2006

Baghdad (Dora) A reporter who was gunned down in Baghdad…He was found dead - shot repeatedly in the head - in Baghdad's

notorious Dora neighborhood last week M

150 Sadek al-Shammari of the German-based news

organization, Iraqi News Network 18/05/2006 shot dead by insurgents in Jisr Diyala, south of the Iraqi capital. M

151 jafaar Ali TV Sports presenter of Al Iraqiya 31/05/2006 11th Al-Iraqiya employee gunned down in Baghdad M

152 Mohammed Jassim cameraman for Al-Iraqiya TV, , May

31, 2006 31/05/2006 killed by unknown gunmen north of Baghdad 27 M

153 Ibrahim Seneid Journalist Al Bashara 13/06/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18030 M

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154 Alaa Hassan

Iraqi journalist, who reported for the international news agency IPS (Inter Press Service), was shot and

killed in Baghdad.

28/06/2006 Hassan was killed on Jun. 28 by armed men as he drove to work. It

appears he was not targeted, but was just in the wrong place at the wrong time

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155 Ossama Qadeer Cameraman, Fox News 29/06/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18170 M

156 Adel Naji Al Mansouri Journalist Al Alam TV 1/08/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18451 35 M

killed in the western Baghdad's district of al-

Ameriya. Naji was kidnapped on Monday by unknown gunmen in al-Atifiya

neighborhood in Baghdad's district of al-Karkh. The police found his body inside his car

with multiple gunshots in al-Ameriya.

157 Abdul Wahab Abdul Razeq

Ahmad Al Qaisie

Journalist, editor-in-chief of Kul Al-

Dunya magazine 31/07/2006

Monday night, Iraqi journalist Abdul Wahab Abdul Razeq Ahmad Al

Qaisie was found dead 10 days after he was kidnapped by masked gunmen in Baghdad

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158 Riyad Muhammad Ali a reporter for the local weekly Tal

Afar al-Yawm 31/07/2006

Riyad Muhammad Ali was shot by unidentified assailants in Mosul on Sunday.

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159 Riyad Atto Talafar al Youm 1/08/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18498 M

160 Ismail Amin Ali / Ismael

Mohammad freelance journalist 7/08/2006

Late Monday, police found the bullet-riddled body of Ismail Amin Ali, 30, about a half mile from where he was abducted two weeks ago in northeast Baghdad. The body showed sign of torture.

30 M

161 Mohammed Abbas Hamad a journalist for the Shiite-owned

newspaper Al-Bayinnah Al-Jadida 7/08/2006

Mohammed Abbas Hamad, 28 was shot by gunmen at he left his home Monday in the Adil section of western Baghdad, police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun said.

28 M

162 Unidentified A guard employed by the state-run

daily newspaper Al-Sabah 27/08/2006

killed when an explosive-packed car detonated in the building’s garage at about 8:30 a.m. The blast killed another, unidentified

person, injured 20 others, and caused severe damage to the newspaper building in Baghdad’s northern Waziriya district

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163 Iyad Nassif al-Mousawai Journalist, editor at Al-Ameen and

Al-Ra’i newspapers 29/08/2006

The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory said on Tuesday that Iraqi

journalist Iyad Nassif al-Mousawai was found killed after he was kidnapped by an armed group in Palestine Street in east Baghdad last month.

34 M

164 Abdel Karim Al-Roubai senior technician with the

government daily Al-Sabah 9/09/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18806 41 M

165 Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri representative of the Iraqi

Journalists Syndicate 12/09/2006

Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri, 56, was ambushed as he was driving 125

miles northeast of Baghdad, according to the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory. His body was found riddled with bullets. CPJ is investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.

56 M

166 Safaa Ismail Inad journalist at al-Watan Newspaper 12/09/2006 Police found the body of Safaa Ismail Inad shot in the head near

Sadr city in eastern Baghdad, police said 31 M

167 Alaa Adel assistant to Isam Rasheed, a

"videoblogger" or "correspondent" based in Baghdad

15/09/2006 KILLED by US troops when he was on the way to Isam Rasheed's

house. They shot him in the head with a special bullet. M

168 Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli correspondent for Baghdad TV 18/09/2006 http://www.cpj.org/news/2006/mideast/iraq18sept06na.html 25 M

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169 Jassem Hamad Ibrahim driver for the Iraqi state television

channel Al-Iraqiya 4/10/2006

shot by unidentified gunmen in Mosul. The assailants ambushed Ibrahim at about 2 p.m. as he was running errands for the station, according to a source at Nineveh TV, the local affiliate of Al-Iraqiya.

His body was found riddled with bullets

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170 Jassim Aarif Hassan Al-Charkiya TV 7/10/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19138 M

171 Azad Mohammed Hassan correspondent to Dar al-Salam

Radio 10/10/2006

found killed after he was kidnapped by an armed group a week ago. Dar al-Salam Radio is run by the Sunni Muslim Clerics Commission 29 M

172 Abdel Rahim Nasrallah Al

Shumari Director of "Shabiyaa" television

station

11/10/2006

The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with

two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.

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173 Dhakir Hussein Al Shuwaili Producer of "Shabiyaa" television

station

11/10/2006

The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the

gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.

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174 Ahmad Shaaban Producer "Shabiyaa" television

station

11/10/2006

The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore

police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.

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175 Nawfal Al Shumari Deputy Director of "Shabiyaa"

television station

11/10/2006

The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with

two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.

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176 Hussein Ali Technician of "Shabiyaa" television

station

11/10/2006

The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with

two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.

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177 Sami Nasrallah Al Shumari Head Administrator of "Shabiyaa"

television station

11/10/2006

The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the

gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.

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178 Maher Security Guard of "Shabiyaa"

television station

11/10/2006

The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore

police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.

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179 Ahmed Security Guard of "Shabiyaa"

television station

11/10/2006

The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with

two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.

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180 Hassan Security Guard of "Shabiyaa"

television station

11/10/2006

The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore

police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.

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181 Ali Jabber Security Guard of "Shabiyaa"

television station

11/10/2006

The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with

two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.

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182 Bashir electric generator operator of

Shabiyaa TV station 11/10/2006

The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the

gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.

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183 Mohammed Abdul Rahman Radio announcer of Radio Dijala 12/10/2006 He was kidnapped in mid-September in the western Baghdad

neighbourhood of Mansour, where he had moved after receiving

threats. 55 M

184 Ali Hlayel security guard for Atyaf 13/10/2006 http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/Iraq/iraq_media_killed.html M

185 Raed Qais al-Shammari al-Iraqiya channel...government-

run TV 14/10/2006 killed in a drive-by shooting in southern Baghdad. 28 M

186 Ali Halil Al Irakiya journalist 16/10/2006 murdered by gunmen yesterday in the Baghdad district of Al

Hurriye M

187 Saad Mehdi Shalash prof in journalism, director of the

editing board at Rayat Al Arab newspaper

25/10/2006 killed along with his wife in their home in Baghdad M

188 Nakshin Hama Rashid presenter on the Kurdish-language

TV station Atiaf 29/10/2006

murdered in her car along with her driver, Anas Kassim Nejm, in the

centre of Baghdad F

189 Anis Qassem driver for the Iraqi state television

channel Atyaf 29/10/2006

murdered in her car along with her driver, Anas Kassim Nejm, in the centre of Baghdad

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190 Sherin Hamid TV presenter Al Iraqiya TV 29/10/2006 http://www.ifj.org/pdfs/JournalistsKilled2007finalweb.pdf M

191 Abdelmajid Ismael Khalil Freelance journalist, worked for

several national dailies 31/10/2006

kidnapped on 18 October in the east Baghdad neighbourhood of Jamila by gunmen who surrounded his car and forced him to go with them. Local police found his body 13 days later in the same

neighbourhood

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192 Ahmed al-Rasheed reporter with al-Sharqiya, an Iraqi

satellite TV channel 3/11/2006

killed in Adhamiya around 6:30 p.m. Friday, according to an official with the Iraqi Journalistic Freedoms Observatory. The reporter was in

his car when he was killed. Al-Rasheed, 29, started working at the station in September. He previously worked with al-Diyar TV.

29 M

193 Qussai Abass Tariq Al Shaab, a newspaper

affiliated to the Communist Party 2/11/2006

gunned down with his driver in a similar fashion as he was travelling

to the newspaper’s office in Baghdad M

194 Unknown Driver Tariq Al Shaab newspaper 2/11/2006 gunned down with journalist Qussai Abass as he was travelling to

the newspaper’s office in Baghdad

195 Mohammed al-Ban cameraman for the TV station al-

Sharqiya 13/11/2006

Gunmen in Mosul kill him. He also worked for local newspaper Al

Masar. 58 M

196 Fadia Mohammed Ali Journalist with the Al Masar

newspaper in Mosul 15/11/2006

Gunmen kill journalist Fadia Mohammed Ali and her driver on her

way to the newspaper 40 F

197 Unknown driver Driver Al Masar newspaper 15/11/2006 Gunmen kill journalist Fadia Mohammed Ali and her driver on her

way to the newspaper

198 Luma Abdallah Al Karkhi Journalist Al-Dustour 15/11/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19812 25 F

199 Walid Hassan Journalist Al-Sharkiya 20/11/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19813 M

200 Raad Jaafar Hamadi Journalist Al Sabah 22/11/2006 killed in the east Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Washash when his

car was fired on by four gunmen in another vehicle, which immediately took off.

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201 Fadhila Abdul Karim reporter for Mosul Radio 27/11/2006 killed in Mosul F

202 Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi Journalist Radio Dijlah 4/12/2006 venait de quitter son domicile en voiture quand il a été tué par des

assaillants non-identifiés 36 M

203 Aswan Ahmed Lutfallah APTN cameraman 12/12/2006

gunned down today in the city of Mosul, 370 km north of Baghdad. Reuters reported that he had gone to an industrial district to get his car repaired when two gangs started shooting at each other. He was

shot when he took out his camera to film the clash.

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204 Yasin al-Dulaimi / Yasin

al-Yasin

IWPR contributor from Ramadi, in Anbar province, who over the past two years had regularly filed excellent features and news analysis for

IWPR’s Iraqi Crisis Report

26/12/2006

died of severe head injures on December 26 after being hit by a roadside bomb in the Baghdad neighbourhood Kadhimiya. He was driving home when the device, targeting a US convoy, went off. He

died at the scene.

36 M

205 Akil Sarhan sports TV channel al-Riyadia 29/12/2006 member of the Iraqi media Network) was killed when his car was

attacked by an armed group as he drove to work. M

206 Ahmed Hadi Naji messenger and occasional

cameraman for the AP 5/01/2007

Naji's wife, Sahba'a Mudhar Khalil, reported him missing Dec. 30 when he did not return that evening. He had left home by motorcycle

in the Ashurta Al Khamsa District in southwest Baghdad at 10:30 a.m., telling her he was going to the AP office. Naji's body was found in a morgue. He was found shot in the back of the head, six days after

he was last seen by his family leaving for work.

28 M

207 Khoudr Younes al-Obaidi Freelance journalist 12/01/2007

Armed men opened fire on Khoudr Younes al-Obaidi in the evening of 12 January as he returned to his home in Mosul, police said. The journalist, who was as a stringer for several titles, worked mostly for

Al-Diwan, the press organ of local tribes. No motiv

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208 Yassin Aid Assef Al Sabah’s correspondent 14/01/2007 killed by a bomb while out covering a story in Baghdad M

209 Falah Khalaf Al Diyali journalist of the daily Al Saha 15/01/2007 shot dead by unidentified gunmen on 15 January in the city of

Ramadi M

210 Unknown employee of the governmental

daily Al Sabah 16/01/2007

Four employees of the governmental daily Al Sabah were killed in an especially horrifying manner from 12 to 16 January. Two, whose

names have not been revealed, were kidnapped from the newspaper’s offices in Baghdad on 12 January and were found with their throats cut the next day near Al Nouman hospital.

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211 Unknown employee of the governmental

daily Al Sabah 16/01/2007

Four employees of the governmental daily Al Sabah were killed in an especially horrifying manner from 12 to 16 January. Two, whose

names have not been revealed, were kidnapped from the newspaper’s offices in Baghdad on 12 January and were found with their throats cut the next day near Al Nouman hospital.

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212 Unknown security guard Al Sabah 16/01/2007

A security guard’s body was found on the newspaper’s roof on 16 January. The newspaper, which did not want to give out his name, said he was probably shot from a distance with a hunting rifle while

patrolling the building’s roof.

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213 Salih Mehdi Mustaqbal radio station 17/01/2007 http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis

ts_Killed_in_2007 M

214 Mohammed Nuri Reporter Iraqi Media Network,

assassinated in the Ninewa governorate

20/01/2007 http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis

ts_Killed_in_2007 M

215 Baha' Hussein Khalaf Reporter Iraqi Media Network,

assassinated in the Ninewa governorate

20/01/2007 http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis

ts_Killed_in_2007 M

216 Dhiaa' Mugotar editor in chief of the Protection of

Consumers business magazine, is assassinated in Adhamiya

24/01/2007 http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis

ts_Killed_in_2007 M

217 Munjid Al-Tumaimi Freelance photographer 28/01/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=20929 M

218 Sabir Amid Mahdi reporter, killed in a car bombing in

the Babel governate 2/02/2007

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis

ts_Killed_in_2007 M

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219 Suhad Al-Khalidi Reporter for Iraqi Media Network,

killed by US troops when their patrol passes by her car in Hilla

4/02/2007 http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis

ts_Killed_in_2007 F

220 Nabras Mohammed Hadi security guard 7/02/2007

Three guards working for the government funded al-Iraqiya TV were killed by fire of foreign security guards in central Baghdad, a media source said. Foreign security guards accompanying a

delegation shot and killed three guards working for al-Iraqiya TV.

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221 Azhar Abdullah al-Maliki security guard 7/02/2007

Three guards working for the government funded al-Iraqiya TV were killed by fire of foreign security guards in central Baghdad, a

media source said. Foreign security guards accompanying a delegation shot and killed three guards working for al-Iraqiya TV.

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222 Sabah Salman security guard 7/02/2007

Three guards working for the government funded al-Iraqiya TV

were killed by fire of foreign security guards in central Baghdad, a media source said. Foreign security guards accompanying a delegation shot and killed three guards working for al-Iraqiya TV

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223 Hussein Al Zubaydi journalist with the weekly al-Ahali 19/02/2007 killed by gunmen in unclear circumstances in Baghdad M

224 Abderrazak Hashim Al-

Khakani

journalist with radio Jumhuriyat Al

Iraq 20/02/2007

The bullet-riddled body of Abderrazak Hashim Al-Khakani, a journalist with radio Jumhuriyat Al Iraq, was discovered in a Baghdad

morgue 45 M

225 Rasoul Abdul Hussein reporter, killed together with his

wife in Diwaniya 21/02/2007

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalists_Killed_in_2007

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226 Jamal al-Zubaidi managing editor of Baghdad's al-

Safir (the ambassador) newspaper 2/03/2007

found killed in southwest Baghdad and showed signs of having been shot in the head

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227 Mohan al-Dhahr managing editor of al-Mashriq

newspaper 3/03/2007

murdered by unidentified gunmen near his home in western Baghdad,

49 M A few days earlier he had

published a trenchant article criticising government finances.

228 Youssef Sabri Iraqi TV journalist for Biladi TV, a

privately-owned station affiliated with al-Dawa

14/03/2007

was among the 22 killed from a car bombing at a Baghdad checkpoint in the al Dawra district in the south of Baghdad. He was reportedly at the checkpoint to film Shia pilgrims leaving the capital for

the holy city of Karbala.

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229 Hussein al Jaburi editor of the daily al-Safir 16/03/2007 He died from his injuries in a hospital in Amman, Jordan on 16

March where he was taken for treatment after being ambushed outside his Baghdad home on 11 February.

63 M

230 Hamid al-Duleimi producer on the TV channel al-

Nahrain 19/03/2007

His body was found dead in the Baghdad morgue. He had been

abducted two days previously as he left the channel’s studios. 37 M

231 Hamid Mohammed Salih program director for the Dijlah

radio station, is assassinated in the

Jami'a district

19/03/2007 http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis

ts_Killed_in_2007 M

232 Mohammed Jassim Yousif reporter for the Iraqi Media

Network, assassinated west of Baghdad

31/03/2007 http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis

ts_Killed_in_2007 M

233 Khamel Mohsin well-known to Iraqis as a TV and

radio presenter during the Saddam Hussein era.

3/04/2007 kidnapped by gunmen as she left her office in the university district

on 3 April. Her body was found the next day. She had worked for Radio Sawa since Saddam’s removal.

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234 Khamail Khalaf

freelance journalist for the Arabic-

language service of the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) since 2004

6/04/2007 found today, three days after she went missing. She had been shot.

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235 Thaer Ahmed Jabr Baghdad TV deputy director 5/04/2007 killed and at least 12 people were wounded in an attack on the

satellite TV station yesterday in which a truck laden with explosives was driven at the building and then gunmen opened fire.

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236 Husain Nizaer journalist trainee - Baghdad TV 5/04/2007 killed and at least 12 people were wounded in an attack on the

satellite TV station yesterday in which a truck laden with explosives was driven at the building and then gunmen opened fire.

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237 Othman al-Mashhadani Al-Watan 9/04/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21653 M

238 Iman Yussef Abdallah radio mouthpiece of the Mosul

workers' union 12/04/2007

Gunmen shot dead Iman Yussef Abdallah and her husband in an eastern area of the city, the Iraqi Association for the Defence of Journalists' Rights said. Their bodies were later set alight in their vehicle,

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239 Khaled Fayyad Obaid al-

Hamdani

producer for Nahrain, a

satellite television channel in Baghdad 12/04/2007

left his home on April 12 in the neighbourhood of Abu Ghraib and drove to Baghdad, purposefully speeding as he always did along the

so-called Highway of Death to minimise danger. An American patrol spotted him and, apparently alarmed by his speed, shot him dead.

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240 Adel al-Badri Staff employee of Radio Dijla 3/05/2007 gunmen attacked staff at the independent radio station in a

predominantly Sunni area of Baghdad, killing two and wounding five, and then bombed the building and knocked the station off the air

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241 Unknown Staff employee of Radio Dijla 3/05/2007 gunmen attacked staff at the independent radio station in a

predominantly Sunni area of Baghdad, killing two and wounding five, and then bombed the building and knocked the station off the air

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242 Raad Mutasha al-Issawi

chairman of Kirkuk writers' union

and owner of al-Raad media institution, which publishes a number of papers

9/05/2007 Three journalists and their driver were killed on Wednesday when

their car was intercepted by an armed group near the northern city of Kirkuk.

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243 Abdul-Razzaq al-Obeidi writer working for al-Raad. 9/05/2007 An armed group in a car intercepted and opened fire at the car that

three journalists were onboard, killing them on the spot along with the driver near al-Rashad district, 25 km southwest of Kirkuk.

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244 Aqeel Abdul-Qader writer working for al-Raad. 9/05/2007 A police source told Reuters that the men were targeted because of

their work, and that they were actually dragged from the car first and tortured before being shot.

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245 Nibras Razzaq Driver 9/05/2007

The killed journalists were Raad Mutashar, chairman of Kirkuk writers' union and owner of al-Raad media institution, which publishes a number of papers, and Imad Abdul-Razzaq al-Obeidi and Aqeel

Abdul-Qader, both writers working for al-Raad.

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246 Alaa Uldeen Aziz Cameraman for ABC News 17/05/2007 Two Iraqi journalists working for ABC News were captured by

gunmen and executed in Baghdad 33 M

247 Saif Laith Yousuf Soundman for ABC News 17/05/2007 Two Iraqi journalists working for ABC News were captured by

gunmen and executed in Baghdad 26 M

248 Ali Khaleel reporter for Az-Zaman 21/05/2007 kidnapped while leaving the home of a relative in Baghdad, and

found dead several hours later 22 M

249 Mahmoud Hassib al-Qassab editor of al-Hawadeth weekly 28/05/2007 Unidentified gunmen killed the editor-in-chief of a weekly

newspaper published in Kirkuk in front of his house in the predominantly-Turkoman neighborhood of al-Musalla, northern Kirkuk

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250 Aidan Abdullah al-Jamiji in charge of Kirkuk television's

Turkoman language section 26/05/2007

the body of Aidan Abdullah al-Jamiji, who was in charge of Kirkuk

television's Turkoman language section and was a well-known local musician, was found on 26 May in the boot of his car. The car had been torched and dumped near a cemetery in the northern c

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251 Abul Rahman al-Essawi reporter for the independent

National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) 30/05/2007

Unknown armed men on Tuesday night stormed the house of Abul Rahman al-Essawi, a journalist, in Abu Saleh town in Ameriyah Falluja district, south of Fallujah, and opened fire against him and his

six-member family. Al-Essawi was killed along with his wife, son, parents and three other relatives,

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252 Nazar Abdul-Wahid al-Radi correspondent for Voices of Iraq

and the director of the Young

Journalists’ League in Missan

30/05/2007

An armed group consisting of three gunmen opened fire against Nezar Abdul Wahid al-Radi and five other journalists at 11:00 am near al-Arousa Hotel in central Ammara, killing him on the spot. The other

journalists survived

38 M

253 Saif M. Fakhry Iraqi cameraman working for the

Associated Press 31/05/2007

shot twice while walking to a mosque near his home on his day off,

the agency said in a statement, adding that he was the fifth Associated Press (AP) employee to die violently during the Iraq war.

26 M

254 Sahar Hussein al-Haydari Voices of Iraq (VOI) correspondent 7/06/2007

Killed on Thursday afternoon in Mosul by unidentified gunmen. Her name was among other names listed by what is called "Emir of the Islamic State in Mosul". Al-Haydari was born in Baghdad in 1962 and

had a bachelor’s degree in media. She is survived by her husband and three daughters.

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255 Mohammed Hilal Karji Journalist for Baghdad TV 7/06/2007 kidnapped June 7 outside his home while on his way to work in the

Yousifiyah region south of Baghdad, and his bullet-ridden body was found in a morgue the following day, an official at the station said.

27 M

256 Aref Ali Filaih

correspondent working for the

independent news agency Voices of

Iraq (VOI)

11/06/2007 killed on Monday when an explosive charge went off near Khalis

district, 55 km north of Baghdad, while he was performing his mission as a journalist

32 M

257 Fleh Dway Megthab

A longtime journalist, he had

worked for a state-run newspaper under the former regime and now was the political editor of a government-financed daily Al Sabah.

17/06/2007

kidnapped on Wednesday morning while leaving his house, along

with his son, in al-Habebiya neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. Three civilians vehicles intercepted Dway's car and took him captive. His body was found on Sunday in Baghdad's morgue with bullet

53 M

His body was found in the main Baghdad mortuary four days after he was kidnapped.

The editor of his newspaper said that the journalist had received threatening phone calls for some time but

continued to work.

Unknown correspondent for the Egyptian

daily Al-Ahram (was wounded) 19/06/2007

At least 78 people were killed and 224 wounded, including a

correspondent for the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, in a car bomb explosion targeting the Shi’ite Khillani mosque in a crowded area of central Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon

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Meanwhile, media sources said that the correspondent of

the Egyptian daily al-Ahram in Baghdad, Mohammad al-Anwar, was only injured in the

attack, not killed.

258 Zeena Shakir Mahmoud former radio broadcaster, was

writing about women's affairs for the Al-Haqiqa newspaper

24/06/2007 Zeena Shakir Mahmoud was shot to death on her way home from

work in Mosul. Although she worked for a Kurdish paper, she was a

Sunni Arab. 35 F

259 Rahim Al-Maliki Reporter Al-Iraqiya and poet 25/06/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22723 39 M

260 Lu'ay Sulayman Luqman Journalist 27/06/2007 Lu'ay Sulayman Luqman, journalist, Zuhayr Yusuf Astivu, both

members of a Christian cultural society,; gunned down in a drive-by

shooting in central Mosul. [source: IBC] 21 M

261 Sarmad Hamdi al-Hassani Journalist for Baghdad TV 27/06/2007 Hassani, 43, was seized from his home in Baghdad's Jamia

neighborhood on June 27, his body found the next day, the official

said. 43 M

262 Hamed Abd Farhan

veteran journalist who had worked for the Iraqi News Agency for over 30

years, as well as several local newspapers and magazines

27/06/2007

Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi journalist near his house in the Turath disrict of southern Baghdad, a source from the Iraqi Journalists

Union said.Most recently he worked in the media bureau of the Baghdad Municipality.

57 M

263 Louaï Souleimane Reporter Nineveh 28/06/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22809 M

body found of Louaï

Souleimane, journalist for the Nineveh al-Hurra newspaper [source: IBC]

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264 Mohammed Hilal Karji Journalist Baghdad TV 4/07/2007 http://www.ifj.org/assets/docs/101/215/48f5565-778f0d7.pdf M

265 Ali Watan Journalist for Samawa local TV 7/07/2007 killed in the clashes that erupted between security forces and

fighters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army in the

southern Iraqi city of Samawa during the last two days M

266 Namir Noor-Eldeen Reuters photographer 12/07/2007 killed in eastern Baghdad at a time when clashes had been taking

place between U.S. forces and militants in the area. 22 M

267 Saeed Chmagh Reuters Driver 12/07/2007 killed in eastern Baghdad at a time when clashes had been taking

place between U.S. forces and militants in the area. 40 M

268 Khalid W. Hassan Iraqi correspondent with the New

York Times 13/07/2007

shot dead in Baghdad's Saidiyah neighborhood, according to New York Times Baghdad Bureau Chief John Burns, who said "the

circumstances of the attack remain unclear at this time." 23 M

269 Unknown translator for Reuters 14/07/2007 Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi who worked as a translator for Reuters

in Baghdad this week.Family members said they did not want to

reveal the name of their son. 30 M

270 Mustafa Darwich

Germayani editor for Kirkuk al-Yawm 17/07/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22982 M

271 Majid Mohammed sports reporter for Kirkuk Al-Yawm 17/07/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22981 M

272 Adnan Al-Safi correspondent for the Al-Anwar

satellite channel 25/07/2007 shot by a sniper’s bullet in the Utaifiya district of Baghdad 39 M

273 Abdul Khaliq al-Habir al-

Anbaki

caricaturist in al-Mutamar

newspaper 26/07/2007

killed along with his 11-member-family in the car bombing attack

that took place on Thursday in Karrada, central Baghdad M

274 Anwar Abbas Lafta CBS translator 26/08/2007 killed by gunmen who stole him from his home. His body was found

in the morgue last night M

275 Amir al Rashidi cameraman who works for Al-

Iraqiya 3/09/2007

Unidentified gunmen killed Amir al Rashidi, a cameraman who works for Al-Iraqiya, in the centre of Mosul on Monday night

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276 Muhannad Ghanim Al

Ubeidi Journalist Radio Dar al-Salam

Mosul 20/09/2007

Unidentified gunmen have killed Muhannad Ghanim Ahmed, who

worked for the privately owned Radio Dar al-Salam, in the eastern Al-Muharibeen district of the city.

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277 Jawad al-Daami

Iraqi television presenter working

with the private Al-Baghdadiyah channel

23/09/2007 He was ambushed in the western Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-

Qadisiyah as he was driving through the area on Sunday. Gunmen opened fire on his car and Daami was killed instantly.

40 M

278 Abdul-Khaliq Nasser

member of the Iraqi press syndicate, was a reporter for the

official Iraqi newspapers al-Qadissiya and al-Jumhuriya, which both stopped after the U.S. forces invaded

Iraq in 2003. He then worked for

several local newspapers in Mosul.

28/09/2007 killed during a late hour on Friday evening when a mortar shell fell

in the area of Bab al-Bayd, western Mosul. Nasser was at his brother's home when shell hit it

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279 Salih Saif Aldin reporter for the Washington Post 14/10/2007

fatally shot while on assignment in Iraq. The Post said that reporter Salih Saif Aldin, 32, who had been reporting on clashes between

militiamen and insurgents in Baghdad's Sadiyah community, was the first reporter for the newspaper to be killed during the Iraq war. The daily wrote that he died after being shot in the forehead Sunday,

apparently at close range, while taking photographs on a street in the notoriously dangerous neighborhood.

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280 Jasem Mohammad Noufan

Three journalists, working for al-Watan newspaper, were killed and

two of their companions were injured in the attack. (According to an IFJ

statement 18/10/2007, this person was a journalist)

15/10/2007 Unknown gunmen on Sunday night opened fire against two

vehicles with a number of journalists onboard on the Kirkuk-Riyadh road near Houd 18 village in southwestern Kirkuk

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Investigation indicated that the three were security men, not journalists. Three of the

editor-in-chief's bodyguards were killed by unidentified gunmen in southwestern Kirkuk

(16/10/2007)

281 Khaled Mohammad Noufan

Three journalists, working for al-Watan newspaper, were killed and two of their companions were injured in the attack. (According to an IFJ

statement 18/10/2007, this person was a journalist)

15/10/2007 Unknown gunmen on Sunday night opened fire against two

vehicles with a number of journalists onboard on the Kirkuk-Riyadh

road near Houd 18 village in southwestern Kirkuk M

Investigation indicated that

the three were security men, not journalists," Three of the editor-in-chief's bodyguards

were killed by unidentified gunmen in southwestern Kirkuk (16/10/2007)

282 Ziyad Tareq Al Dibo

Three journalists, working for al-Watan newspaper, were killed and

two of their companions were injured

in the attack. (According to an IFJ statement 18/10/2007, this person was a journalist)

15/10/2007 Unknown gunmen on Sunday night opened fire against two

vehicles with a number of journalists onboard on the Kirkuk-Riyadh road near Houd 18 village in southwestern Kirkuk

32 M

Investigation indicated that the three were security men, not journalists,". Three of the

editor-in-chief's bodyguards were killed by unidentified gunmen in southwestern Kirkuk

(16/10/2007)

Dhi Abdul-Razak al-Dibo /

Eyad Tariq Al-Takriti

freelance reporter, contributed stories to at least two weekly newspapers in Tikrit / Correspondent

of the weekly Al Watan

15/10/2007 killed in an ambush north of Baghdad that left his two security

guards wounded. Dhi Abdul-Razak al-Dibo, a 32-year-old freelance reporter, was driving his BMW with his guards near Kirkuk

32 M

According to an IFJ statement 18/10/2007, this

person is the same as Ziyas Tareq Al Dibo. Two security guards, A'allal Abedaljabbar

Salaameh and Mohhamed Shakir Mahmoud, were injured in the attack.

283 Abdullah, driver Driver of RFE/RL correspondent 22/10/2007

Unidentified kidnappers killed the driver for Radio Free Iraq correspondent Jumana al-Obaidi when they seized the reporter on

her way to a scheduled assignment at the Iraqi Environment Ministry on October 22. The radio service, which said the driver was h

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During the kidnapping of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)

correspondent, the driver was shot and his body dumped in the street.

284 Shehab Mohammed al-Hitti Journalist Baghdad News 27/10/2007

his body was found in a northern district of the capital on 27 October 2007. He had been abducted the same day in al Jami’a in the east of Baghdad while on his way to work. He had worked for

Baghdad News since 2003. He worked for several dailies, including al-Zaman and Babel under the previous regime

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285 Mohamad Jawad Ali technician of Biladi, satellite TV 5/12/2007

L’attentat à la voiture piégée qui visait, le 5 décembre 2007, une

brigade de l’armée irakienne dans le quartier de Quarada au centre de Bagdad a coûté la vie à Mohamad Jawad Ali, 20 ans, étudiant à l’université technologique de Bagdad et également collaborateur

technique de la chaîne satellitaire Biladi.

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286 Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi Journalist -

www.aliveinbaghdad.org 14/12/2007

Aged 23, Moussawi was found dead in his home in the northeast

Baghdad district of Habibiya after an Iraqi military raid on his street. According to an autopsy, he was shot 31 times in the head and chest. Moussawi had working for several months on sensit

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287 Alaa Abdul Karim Al-

Fartoosi journalist al-Forat TV, an Iraqi

television station 30/01/2008

A roadside bomb killed a television journalist and a driver north of Baghdad. A correspondent and assistant cameraman were seriously wounded.

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288 Alaa Assi driver al-Forat TV, an Iraqi

television station 30/01/2008

A roadside bomb killed a television journalist and a driver north of Baghdad. A correspondent and assistant cameraman were seriously wounded.

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289 Hisham Mijawet Hamdan board member of the Young

Journalists Association 12/02/2008

Police discovered his body and took him to Al-Tib al-Adli morgue in Baghdad. Haidar Hasoun, founder and head of the association, said that the journalist, who exhibited signs of torture, was shot in the head

and chest. Hamdan's family lost contact with him on Sunday morning when he went to buy stationery supplies from a Baghdad market. Hamdan was active in a campaign organized by the association less

than two months ago in support of the families of journalists killed in Iraq and called on the Iraqi government and civil society organizations to do more to assist them. He was also part of a committee formed to

collect financial contributions for the families of slain journalists.

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Hamdan had appeared on Iraqi satellite channels

advocating on behalf of the families, which may have made him a target, Hasoun said.

Hamdan worked as a political reporter for the bimonthly paper Al-Siyassa wal-Karar, published

by the Young Journalists Association. The paper's print edition recently became defunct, but the association

maintains the paper's Web site, according to Hasoun, who serves as the editor-in-chief.

290 Shihab al-Tamimi

independent journalist working for many local newspapers. He was known for his outspoken views

against the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the continued presence of U.S. troops on Iraqi soil. He was also a stern critic of Iraq's sectarian

violence.

27/02/2008

On Saturday, unidentified gunmen opened fire on Temimi in al-Wazieriya neighborhood, central Baghdad, while he was leaving the

syndicate’s building to attend a cultural activity nearby, seriously wounding him. A celebrated Iraqi journalist, a septuagenarian Temimi has won the recent syndicate elections that were held in July 2003

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291 Qassem Abdul Hussein al-

Eqabi

head of public relations and distribution for the local political daily newspaper Al-Muwaten.

13/03/2008 father of five children, was shot by unknown gunmen while walking

in Baghdad’s largely Shiite Karradah neighborhood 36 M

292 Ali Jassem al-Battat cameraman working for the al-

Nakhil TV channel 25/04/2008

killed by an unidentified gunman in the area of al-Qarna, 100 km north of Basra

38 M

293 Sirwa Abdul-Wahab

journalist working for the Baghdad-based Muraseloon news agency; she

worked also for the Tikrit-based Salah al-Din TV channel.

4/05/2008 unknown gunmen opened fire on the journalist working for the

Baghdad-based Muraseloon news agency while heading for work in al-Bakr neighborhood, eastern Mosul, killing her instantly,

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294 Wisam Ali Ouda Afaq television channel cameraman 22/05/2008 shot dead by U.S. soldiers in eastern Baghdad's Obaidi district at

around 5pm on Wednesday, killed by an American sniper. 32 M

295 Haidar Hashim al-Husseini journalist working for al-Sharq

newspaper 22/05/2008

Police forces found in al-Tahrir neighborhood in central Baaquba, the body of Haydar Hussein. The dead man had been kidnapped a

few days ago by an armed group in Bahraz district, south of Baaquba. The body bore signs of gunshot wounds to the head.

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296 Mohey al-Din Abdel Hamid

al-Naqeeb

presenter for the local Ninewa TV and Radio, affiliated to the Iraqi

Media Network

17/06/2008 unidentified gunmen assassinated Mohey al-Din Abdel Hamid al-

Naqeeb while he was leaving his house in al-Ziraie neighborhood,

northern Mosul. He was on his way to the TV station, 50 M

the killers shot him in the

head from their car just after he left his home in Mosul. Abdul-Hameed had received death

threats from militants claiming to be members of Al Qaida in Iraq before he was killed.

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297 Soran Mamah Hammah

Journalist working for Lafeen, a

political magazine published in the Kurdish language from the northern

city of Sulaimaniyah

21/07/2008

Gunmen shot him dead in the Kurdish Rasheedwa neighbourhood of the northern oil city of Kirkuk. Unknown armed men opened fire as he was stepping out of his home Monday. He was killed by four men

who later escaped in a BMW car.

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Around mid-July, a list of 16 journalists and writers, including Souran ‘Omar, Souran Mama

Hama, was circulated within the Kurdistan region of Iraq and which threatened those named

with death. All the journalists and writers mentioned on the list are known to have been

critical of the PUK and the KDP.

298 Musab al-Azawi Journalist Al-Sharqiya TV, Mosul

bureau chief 13/09/2008

The Al-Sharqiya TV crew was kidnapped by gunmen at midday

while filming in the central Mosul neighbourhood of Al-Zenjili. Their bullet-riddled bodies were found in a nearby district later yesterday.

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299 Ahmed Salem Cameraman Al-Sharqiya TV 13/09/2008 The Al-Sharqiya TV crew was kidnapped by gunmen at midday

while filming in the central Mosul neighbourhood of Al-Zenjili. Their

bullet-riddled bodies were found in a nearby district later yesterday. M

300 Ihab Maad Cameraman Al-Sharqiya TV 13/09/2008 The Al-Sharqiya TV crew was kidnapped by gunmen at midday

while filming in the central Mosul neighbourhood of Al-Zenjili. Their

bullet-riddled bodies were found in a nearby district later yesterday. M

301 Qaidar Suleiman Driver Al-Sharqiya TV 13/09/2008 The Al-Sharqiya TV crew was kidnapped by gunmen at midday

while filming in the central Mosul neighbourhood of Al-Zenjili. Their bullet-riddled bodies were found in a nearby district later yesterday.

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302 Kamal Aziz Khdayir Journalist 15/09/2008 journalist Kamal Aziz Khdayir killed by roadside bomb, Camp

Sarah; 3 bodies found [source: IBC] M

303 Dyar Abas Ahmed correspondent with the

independent online news site Eye

Iraq

10/10/2008

Iraqi reporter Dyar Abas Ahmed was shot by unidentified gunmen in Kirkuk. Ahmed, a correspondent with the independent online news site Eye

Iraq, was killed in Kirkuk, 137 miles (220 kilometers) north of Baghdad, according to Kirkuk Police.

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Ahmed, in his twenties, was

walking in a street in the center of Kirkuk with a friend on Friday evening when he was attacked.

Ahmed was shot six times in the head and chest and declared dead at the scene.

304 Kanaan Guzal TV presenter 11/12/2008 tribal leaders and Kurdish officials, other restaurant customers and

a TV presenter killed by a suicide bomber in Abdullah Restaurtant, between Kirkuk and Arbil [source: IBC]

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305 Muwaffaq Al Hamadani journalilst and Sunni election

candidate 31/12/2008

journalist and Sunni election candidate gunned down in Al-Najafi Street, Bab al-Tob, central Mosul [source: IBC]

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306 Sallam Arab al-Dawsaki journalist who works for al-Hadbaa

newspaper 2/02/2009

The journalist, Sallam Arab al-Dawsaki, who works for al-Hadbaa newspaper, published in Mosul, was shot down by a policeman in front of his house in Wadi Hajar, southern Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

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307 Majid al-Sakr Iraqi sports editor of the privately

owned daily Al-Bayana 3/02/2009

A Baghdad official says an Iraqi sports editor has died of shrapnel wounds suffered in a roadside bombing more than two months ago.

Majid al-Sakr had been in a coma since the November 28 attack in Baghdad. The head of the Iraqi Journalists' Union, Mouyyad al-Lami,

says the 51-year-old journalist died on Tuesday in a hospital.

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Al-Lami says the journalist worked for the privately owned

daily Al-Bayana and that he is survived by a wife and five

children.

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308 Suhaib Adnan Al-Bagdadiya correspondent 10/03/2009

At least 33 people, including a local army chief, have died and 46

have been injured in a suicide attack on the western edge of Baghdad. Two journalists for the Cairo-based independent TV station al-Baghdadiya were among the dead, and four al-Iraqiya journalists

were wounded

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309 Haider Hashim Suhail Al-Bagdadiya cameraman 10/03/2009

At least 33 people, including a local army chief, have died and 46 have been injured in a suicide attack on the western edge of Baghdad. Two journalists for the Cairo-based independent TV station al-Baghdadiya were among the dead, and four al-Iraqiya journalists

were wounded

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310 Ihsan Zaboun Hayal administrator for local newspaper

Sawt al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq) 14/05/2009

An administrator working for the local newspaper Sawt al-Iraq

(Voice of Iraq) was killed and another was injured in an armed attack in central Baghdad. Unknown gunmen opened fire on Ihsan Zaboun Hayal and Abu Haydar, two employees in the Sawt al-Iraq newspaper, killing the first and seriously wounding the other.

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car of Editor-in-Chief of Sawt

al-Iraq Abdul Jabar Wahid, driver Ihsan Zaboun Hayal killed in Al-Nedhal Street, central Baghdad [Source: IBC]

311 Alaa Abdul-Wahab sports reporter for Al-Baghdadiya

satellite channel and managing editor of Nineveh newspaper

30/05/2009

An adhesive explosive device was placed in the car of the sports

journalist, when he was with his colleague Dr. Sultan Gorges at the cultural group district to the east of Mosul, exploded when they boarded the car, which have resulted with the death of the journalist Sultan Gorges with wounds.

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In a similar but unrelated attack the same day, two staffers from the state-run Al-Iraqiya television station were

badly wounded when a bomb attached to their car exploded in the Al-A'zamiya district in Baghdad. One of the wounded

staffers was identified as sound engineer Hameed Yousif, while the second staffer's identity has not been revealed.

312 Orhan Hijran cameraman for the Al-Rasheed

television channel 21/10/2009

Orhan Hijran, a cameraman for the Al-Rasheed television channel, was killed and Mohammed Abdallah Zadeh, with the Al-Baghdadia channel, was wounded at around 3:00 pm (1200 GMT) by a roadside

bomb in Kirkuk

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313 Safaa Abdulzahra worker at al-Furat satellite channel

in Basra 23/12/2009

Safaa Abdulzahra was kidnapped by gunmen on Tuesday (Dec. 22)

evening. The corpse, which bore signs of gunshot wounds, was found in al-Kafaat neighborhood, downtown Basra.

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314 Yasser ? Newspaper employee 25/01/2010 Killed in a bomb attack against Sheraton Ishtar, Babylon and

Hamra hotels

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315 Aseel al-Obeidi Iraqi Journalist 10/03/2010

U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad, killing an

Iraqi journalist and her husband.The incident took place late Wednesday in the Tobchi neighborhood. U.S. troops open fire on Aseel al-Obeidi and her husband's car but gave no further details.

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316 Zardasht Osman

University student who freelanced for a number of publications and often wrote on the Internet under a

pseudonym.

6/05/2010 A Kurdish journalist was kidnapped in Erbil, the capital of the

semiautonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, tortured and then found

dead with two bullets in the head on a highway

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Zardasht Osman, 23, was killed because of his scathing articles about the region’s two governing parties and its

leaders, including the dominant Barzani family.

317 Maher Mohammad Saeed Al-Mosuliya satellite channel

employee 12/05/2010

Unknown gunmen killed on Wednesday evening (May 12) Maher Mohammad Saeed, al-Mosuliya channel’s employee, near his house in

al-Zahraa neighborhood in eastern Mosul.

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318 Security guard Al Arabiya Television Channel

26/07/2010

A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside the Baghdad bureau of Al Arabiya television channel, killing at least

four people, injuring another 10 and destroying their offices.

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319 Security guard Al Arabiya Television Channel 26/07/2010 A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside

the Baghdad bureau of Al Arabiya television channel, killing at least

four people, injuring another 10 and destroying their offices.

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320 Security guard Al Arabiya Television Channel 26/07/2010 A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside

the Baghdad bureau of Al Arabiya television channel, killing at least

four people, injuring another 10 and destroying their offices.

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321 Cleaning lady Al Arabiya Television Channel 26/07/2010 A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside

the Baghdad bureau of Al Arabiya television channel, killing at least four people, injuring another 10 and destroying their offices.

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322 Kamal Qasim Al Hiti Editor of Al Mustaqila newspaper 22/08/2010

Kidnapped in Baghdad on 14 Aug 2010, 4 pm. A few weeks ago he

received a letter threatening him and contained a bullet. His tortured body was found in the Tigris river opposite the Green Zone in Karad district (under control of the Islamic Supreme Council - Badr Brigade). His face was partially burned, and he was tortured and hanged.

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He was very outspoken against the occupation. He was

the editor of Al Mustaqila newspaper which was raided and eventually banned for criticizing the occupation and its militias.

323 Riad al-Saray Al Iraqiya TV presenter 7/09/2010

Mr Saray, who presented religious and political programmes on al-Iraqiya TV, was killed as he was leaving his home on Tuesday. He was known for his attempts to narrow sectarian differences in Iraq.

The 35-year-old lawyer joined the state broadcaster in 2005. He was also on the local council of the Shia neighbourhood of Shula in north-west Baghdad.

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324 Safah Abdul Hameed Al Mosuliya TV presenter 8/09/2010 Mr Hameed, a father of six, was shot from a speeding car, police

said. He had worked at al-Mosuliya television channel for a year, his colleagues said.

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325 Tahrir Kadhim Jawad cameraman for the al-Hurra

satellite channel 4/10/2010

killed Monday when a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to his car detonated in the town of Garma, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of the

capital, police in nearby Fallujah said.

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326 Mazen Mardan al-Baghdadi reporter for Al-Mosuliya television 21/11/2010

Three armed men showed up at the journalist's house on Sunday

at 6 p.m. and told al-Baghdadi's father they were with military intelligence and wanted to speak to his son. Al-Baghdadi's father summoned his son, and when he arrived home, the men opened fire

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327 Natiq al-Jibouri journalist 4/12/2010

Gunmen using silenced weapons killed Natiq al-Jibouri, a journalist,

in the Mansour district of west-central Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

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328 Omar Rasim Al-Qaysi Anchor working for Anbar TV 12/12/2010

killed on Sunday in a car bombing in central Ramadi, al-Anbar

province. His brother, a fellow staffer at the station, was injured in the attack. Security forces then detained a journalist for the daily Al-

Anbar, preventing him from covering the explosion'

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329 Wejdan Assad al-Juburi Journalist 20/01/2011 Killed by a car bomb at the police headquarters in Baaquba

[source: Iraq Bodycount]

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330 Hilal Al-Ahmadi worked for two local weeklies, the

Mosul Echo and Iraqiyoun 17/02/2011

Ahmadi was leaving his home in the eastern suburb of Mithaq in order to go to work when men in car opened fire with a submachine-gun and then took off. He was hit several times and died on the spot.

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father of four children, Ahmadi was dismissed two weeks ago as head of the

Ninawa provincial government’s communication and media department. Colleagues said his newspaper articles drew

attention to corruption and the lack of social services in the region.

331 Riad Al Rubaie Journalist 20/02/2011

the death of journalist Riad al-Rubaie in the middle of a peaceful

demonstration of youth on 20 February, at Tahrir Square after being severely beaten by the police under the eyes of his fellow protesters.

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332 Mohammad Al-Hamadani journalist and poet reporting for

the satellite television station al-

Ittijah

24/02/2011 An Iraqi journalist reporting for the satellite television station al-

Ittijah, whose name remains unknown, was among those killed

Thursday in a blast that targeted a celebration in the city of Ramadi.

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333 Faisal Omar TV journalist for al-Mowselya

satellite channel 1/03/2011

Armed terrorists shot dead Faisal Omar , a reporter working for al-Mowselya satellite channel in al – Refae in neighborhood in western

Mosul

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334 Sabah al-Bazi Correspondent for Al-Arabiya and

contributor to Reuters, CNN, and

other international news outlets

29/03/2011

Al-Bazi was covering a provincial council meeting when the assailants--using car bombs, explosive vests, and grenades--mounted an assault on the government building in Tikrit, capital of Saleheddin

province. Death toll: more than 50, with dozens injured. The

cameraman of al-Fayhaa channel, Saad Khaled, was wounded in the same incident

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killed when gunmen wearing military uniforms seized control of a provincial government

building in Tikrit. A number of

provincial council members were taken hostage.

335 Muaamar Khudier

Abdulwahed Reporter for al-Ain media agency 29/03/2011

The Journalistic Freedom Observatory (JFO) mourned on Wednesday two journalists, who were killed yesterday in the attack made by gunmen on Salah al-Din council. One of the suicide bombers

entered the reporters’ room in the Salah al-Din council and blew himself up

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The al-Ain media agency informed the JFO that its reporter, Muaamar Khudier

Abdulwahed, was killed in the same incident.

336 Iman Salah Journalist 29/03/2011 killed when gunmen wearing military uniforms seized control of a

provincial government building in Tikrit. A number of provincial

council members were taken hostage.

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337 Taha Al-Alawi head of satellite television station

Al-Masar TV 8/04/2011

Gunmen opened fire on the car in which he was travelling in the

Werij district of southern Baghdad.

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B - JOURNALISTS KILLED NON-IRAQI

Nr Name Nationality Media Date

1 Frederic Nerac

Journalist, went missing in Iraq shortly

after the U.S.-led invasion. A Foreign Ministry statement said Nerac died during a gun battle between Iraqi and U.S. soldiers, which took place when

he was aboard an Iraqi vehicle.

20/03/2003

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2 Paul Moran Australian ABC 22/03/20

03 22.03.2003 - Paul Moran, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 39 M

3 Hussein Othman Lebanese ITN 22/03/20

03 22.03.2003 - Hussein Othman, translator, ITV News M

4 Terry Lloyd British ITN 23/03/20

03 23.03.2003 - Terry Lloyd, ITV News 50 M

5 Kaveh Golestan Iranian BBC - news photographer 2/04/200

3 02.04.2003 - Kaveh Golestan , BBC 52 M

6 Michael Kelly American Washington Post 4/04/200

3 04.04.2003 - Michael Kelly , Washington Post M

7 Christian Liebig German Focus 7/04/200

3 07.04.2003 - Christian Liebig, Focus 35 M

8 Julio Anguita Parrado Spanish El Mundo 7/04/200

3 07.04.2003 - Julio Anguita Parrado, El Mundo 32 M

9 Tarek Ayoub Jordanian Al-Jazeera 8/04/200

3 08.04.2003 - Tarek Ayoub, Al Jazeera M

10 Taras Protsyuk Ukrainian Reuters 8/04/200

3 08.04.2003 - Taras Protsyuk, Reuters 35 M

11 José Couso Spanish Telecinco 8/04/200

3 08.04.2003 - José Couso, Tele 5 37 M

12

Richard Wild

British freelance television

cameraman, shot dead at point blank range in central Baghdad street.

5/07/2003

24 M

13 Jeremy Little American NBC - Sound engineer 7/07/200

3 07.07.2003 - Jeremy Little, sound engineer, NBC M

14 Mazen Dana Palestinian Reuters 17/08/20

03 17.08.2003 - Mazen Dana, Reuters 43 M

15 Waldemar Milewicz Polish TVP 7/05/200

4 07.05.2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, TVP 48 M

16 Mounir Bouamrane Algerian TVP 7/05/200

4 07.05.2004 - Mounir Bouamrane, TVP 36 M

17 Kotaro Ogawa Japanese Freelance 27/05/20

04 27.05.2004 - Kotaro Ogawa, Nikkan Gendai 33 M

18 Shinsuke Hashida Japanese Freelance 27/05/20

04 27.05.2004 - Shinsuke Hashida, Nikkan Gendai 61 M

19 Enzo Baldoni Italian Diario della Settimana 26/08/20

04 26.08.2004 - Enzo Baldoni, Diario della settimana 56 M

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20 Mazen al-ToMayzi Palestinian Al-Arabiya 12/09/20

04

Palestinian journalist Mazen al-Tomaizi, who worked for the pan-Arab TV news station Al-Arabiya and the Saudi TV station Al-Ekhbariya, was reporting live on Al-Ekhbariya at the scene of a burning Bradley fighting

vehicle on 12 September 2004 in Baghdad when he was hit by the impact of a missile fired from a US helicopter.

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Tomaizi, Al-Arabiya

21 Steven Vincent American Freelance 2/08/200

5 02.08.2005 - Steven Vincent, freelance journalist 49 M

22 James Brolan

Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42. were among four

people killed when a car bomb hit a U.S. military patrol in Baghdad on Monday

29/05/2006

42 M

23 Paul Douglas

Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42. were among four

people killed when a car bomb hit a

U.S. military patrol in Baghdad on Monday

29/05/20

06 48 M

24 Dmitry Chebotaryov

news photographer of PhotoXPress Dmitry Chebotaryov had been killed in the province of Diyala on Sunday, when a U.S. car convoy hit a ground

bomb.

6/05/2007

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C- JOURNALISTS WHO DIED OF NON-VIOLENT CAUSES

1

Gaby Rado

correspondent for Channel 4 News, Britain, died after apparently falling from a hotel roof in northern Iraq.

30/03/2003

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2

David Bloom

Reporter of NBC News died from an

apparent blood clot while covering the war south of Baghdad.

6/04/2003

39 M

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Veronica Cabrera

Argentine freelance camerawoman, died of injuries from a car crash

outside the Iraqi capital, which instantly killed Mario Podesta, an Argentine television reporter

8/04/200

3 29 F

4 Mario Podesta

Argentine freelance journalist, died in a car crash near Baghdad. Podesta was travelling in a convoy of press vehicles some 80 kilometres (50 miles)

from Baghdad when the accident happened.

14/04/2003

51 M

5 Elizabeth Neuffer

a reporter for The Boston Globe, died after the car in which she was a passenger apparently struck a guardrail near the town of Samarra,

about halfway between Baghdad and Tikrit.

8/05/2003

46 F

6 Mark Fineman

Los Angeles Times correspondent

for 17 years, died of a heart attack on Sept. 23 while waiting to interview a member of the Iraqi Governing Council in Baghdad.

23/09/2003

had won or shared a number of journalism honors, including a

George Polk Award, a National Headliner Award and an Overseas Press Club Award. He had worked for newspapers in Chicago and Philadelphia before joining the Times.

51 M

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MEDIA PROFESSIONALS WHO DIED IN THE IRAQ WAR 2003 – 2011

Killed Media Professionals of Iraqi Nationality

Journalist, reporter 201

Cameraman 29

Photographer 6

Administrative 43 (incl. staff employees, directors, producers ….)

Translator 12

Driver 17

Security guard 15

Technician (incl. soundman) 14 Killed Media Professionals of Iraqi Nationality 337

Non-Iraqi Media

Professionals, killed in Iraq 24

Media Professionals of non-Iraqi Nationality who died in Iraq of non violent causes

6

Total Media professionals

killed in the Iraq war: 361

MALE 334

Total Media professionals who died in the Iraq war:

367 FEMALE 33

Iraq war deadliest conflict in history for media professionals.

Year Iraqi media workers killed Non Iraqi Total

2003 6 20 26

2004 53 6 59

2005 58 1 59

2006 88 2 90

2007 81 1 82

2008 19 0 19

2009 8 0 8

2010 15 0 15

2011 9 0 9

Total: 337 30 367

Average age: 36,94 years

List updated 15 MAART 2011

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