Journalists & Media Staff Casualties Iraq Update: 5 May 2008 2 4 3 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2003 22 March 2003 Terry Loyd Fred Nerac Hussein Osman ITV News correspondent Terry Lloyd was killed in an incident on the Southern Iraq war front. Iraqi civilians took a number of dead and injured from the area into Basra and it is believed that Terry Lloyd's body was among the dead. The fourth member of the team, cameraman Daniel Demoustier, was injured in the incident but was able to get back to US and British lines. Two other members of the ITN team, French cameraman Fred Nérac, who is still officially missing, and Lebanese translator Hussein Osman who was confirmed dead at a later stage. Nérac started working for ITN in 1997 and since then covered a wide range of stories with various ITN reporters, including the Afghanistan and Kosovo conflicts. 22 March 2003 Paul Moran Freelance cameraman Paul Moran, 39, died instantly in a suicide bomb attack at a checkpoint in Sayed Sadiq in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq near the Iranian border. He was the last of a string of journalists traveling through the checkpoint which had been taken by Kurdish opposition fighters from terrorists 24 hours earlier. 31 March 2003 Gaby Rado British television journalist,Gaby Rado, was found dead around the Abu Sanaa hotel where he was staying in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq. It is believed that he fell from the roof of the hotel where he was actually staying in. 2 April 2003 Kaveh Golestan Kaveh Golestan, an Iranian free-lance cameraman on assignment for the BBC, was killed in northern Iraq after stepping on a land mine. Golestan accidentally detonated the mine when he exited his car near the town of Kifri. 3 April 2003 Michael Kelly Michael Kelly, the Atlantic Monthly editor-at-large and Washington Post columnist, was killed in a Humvee accident while traveling with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division. Kelly's death is the first among the 600 correspondents participating in the Pentagon's embedding program. 6 April 2003 Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed Kamaran Abdurazaq, a Kurdish translator working for BBC in Northern Iraq, died after being seriously wounded, apparently by an American bomb. 6 April 2003 David Bloom David Bloom of NBC News, died of a pulmonary embolism while he was embedded with the US Third Infantry Division. 7 April 2003 Christian Liebig Julio Anguita Parrado Two journalists, German Christian Liebig of the weekly magazine Focus and Spanish Julio Anguita Parrado of the newspaper El Mundo, were killed in an Iraqi missile attack in south of Baghdad along with two US soldiers. Both were embedded with the US Army. 8 April 2003 Jose Couso Taras Protsiuk Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian cameraman working for Reuters and Jose Couso, a Spanish Telecinco cameraman died after a US tank fired on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, which was being used as a base by the foreign media. 8 April 2003 Tareq Ayyoub Tareq Ayyoub, Al-Jazeera journalist, was seriously wounded when the network's office on the bank of the Tigris River was struck by a US bomb. He later died. 12 April 2003 Unknown Interpreter An Iraqi interpreter working for Malaysian journalists was killed when gunmen ambushed and kidnapped the group in Baghdad. 14 April 2003 Mario Podesta Argentinian freelance journalist Mario Podesta 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. 15 April 2003 Veronica Cabrera Veronica Cabrera, a freelance camerawoman, died of injuries after a car accident. She was travelling in the same convoy of press vehicles as Mario Podesta some 80 kilometres (50 miles) from Baghdad when the accident happened. 9 May 2003 Elizabeth Neuffer Waleed Khalifa Hassan Al Dulaimi Elizabeth Neuffer, an award-winning reporter for The Boston Globe, died in a car accident in Iraq while she was on an assignment covering the aftermath of the war. Neuffer, 46, died after the car in which she was a passenger apparently struck a guardrail near the town of Samarra, about halfway between Tikrit and Baghdad. She was returning to Baghdad from Tikrit, where she was reporting on efforts to rid Iraq of the influence of the Baath Party. Neuffer's translator, Waleed Khalifa Hassan Al-Dulami, also died in the accident. The driver, Saad Al-Azzayi, managed to survive. 5 July 2003 Richard Wild Richard Wild, freelance British journalist, was killed by a sniper in Baghdad. 6 July 2003 Jeremy Little Jeremy Little, Australian sound recordist working for NBC, died of injuries sustained in a rocket attack on 1 July. He was embedded. 17 August 2003 Mazen Dana Mazen Dana was struck in the chest while filming near Abu Ghraib Prison outside Baghdad, late in the afternoon on August 17. Dana had been reporting near the prison after a mortar attack had killed six Iraqis there the previous night. Eyewitnesses quoted by international media said that several journalists had been near the prison at the time of the incident and that a soldier in the tank fired on Dana as he filmed it approaching him from about 50 meters (55 yards). 28 October 2003 Ahmed Shawkat Ahmed Shawkat, editor of the Iraqi weekly Bilah Ittijah, was shot and killed by a gunman in Mosul. The gunman and an accomplice had followed the journalist to his office roof that afternoon.Shawkat's daughter, Roaa, told Associated Press that her father had received threatening letters several weeks earlier, warning him to close his newspaper. 2004 27 January 2004 Duraid Isa Mohammed Yasser Khatab CNN translator and producer Duraid Isa Mohammed and driver Yasser Khatab were ambushed and died of multiple gunshot wounds as they were returning to Baghdad in a two-car convoy from an assignment in the southern city of Hillah. 1 February 2004 Safir Nader Abdel Sattar Abel Karim Ayoub Mohammed Haymin Muhammed Salih Gharib Mohammed Salih Semko Karim Mohyideen The six journalists were killed on 1st February, the first day of Eid aldaha, when two suicide bombers blew up almost simultaneously at the party offices of KDP & PUK in Arbil. 5 March 2004 Selwan Abdelghani Medhi Al-Niemi Selwan Abdelghani Medhi al-Niemi, an Iraqi translator working for the Voice of America [VOA], was shot and killed in Baghdad by unknown assailants together with his mother and daughter as he was returning home in his car. 18 March 2004 Nadia Nasrat Majid Rachid Mohamad Ahmad One journalist and two staff members were killed in an attack by armed men on a minibus carrying staff of a coalition forces-funded television station. The incident took place in Baquba, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad. At least eight other staff members were injured. The minibus was transporting employees of the local station Diyala TV. 19 March 2004 Ali Abdel Aziz Ali Al-Khatib Ali Abdel Aziz, an Iraqi cameraman for Al-Arabiya satellite news channel, was killed and a correspondent, also Iraqi, was seriously wounded by US fire in Baghdad. "The car in which they were driving was clearly marked 'TV'." Al-Arabiya reporter Hadeer al-Rubaie said that the incident occured when a team from the channel went to cover an attack on the Burj al-Hayat hotel and US forces who cordoned off the area opened fire. Arabiya employees said the Iraqis were driving in central Baghdad when another car drove through a U.S. checkpoint. They said U.S. troops then opened fire on both cars. "I stopped in front of the checkpoint and then I saw another car coming fast towards it and I thought it was going to explode," said Ahmed Abdul Amiya, driver of the Al Arabiya car. "I tried to race away...and then the Americans started firing at random. They hit the first car and then they started shooting at our car." Ali al-Khatib died from his injuries in hospital the following day. 26 March 2004 Burhan Mohammed Mazhour Burhan Mohammed Mazhour, an Iraqi citizen born in 1969, had been working for ABCNEWS as a freelance cameraman for almost two months. He died of gunshot wounds sustained during heavy firefighting in Fallujah. It was unclear who killed him. 26 March 2004 Omar Kemal Omar Kemal, an Iraqi translator, working for the U.S.-based newsweekly Time died after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds in Baghdad two days earlier. Omar Kamal, who also worked as a fixer for the magazine, was shot and critically wounded driving his car on route to an assignment. The circumstances of the shooting were unclear, but a number of Iraqis working for Time have received threats from a variety of sources. 19 April 2004 Assad Kadhim Hussein Saleh Al-Iraqiya TV Correspondent Asaad Kadhim and driver Hussein Saleh were killed; and cameraman Bassem Kamel was wounded "after American forces opened fire on them while they were performing their duty," the station announced. The U.S. military had no immediate comment. Thamir Ibrahim, an Al-Iraqiya editor, told The Associated Press that "it was on the road leading to the city of Samara, before they reached it, they were fired upon". However,he had no details on how the shooting occurred. 7 May 2004 Waldemar Milewicz Munyr Beouamrani A Polish and Algerian journalist, both working for Poland's TVP television, were shot dead by gunmen south of Baghdad. A Polish cameraman was also wounded in the attack in Latafiya, 30km from Baghdad. The four were driving when gunmen pulled up behind and raked their vehicle with gunfire, Kazzaz said, killing the Polish journalist and bringing the car to a halt. The gunmen then turned round and came back to fire again, killing the Algerian and wounding the cameraman, he said. An AFP photographer saw the two bodies on the roadside, in an area around Mahmudiya, Iskandiriya and Latifiya where insurgents have carried out a series of deadly ambushes since killing seven Spanish intelligence agents there 2003 November. 20 May 2004 Hamid Rashid Wali An Iraqi technician from al-Jazeera television, Hamid Rashid Wali, was shot dead on the night of 20 May in Kerbala, during clashes between the US Army and Shiite militia of Moqtada al-Sadr. 27 May 2004 Shinsuke Hashida Kotaro Ogawa Mohammed Najmedin A vehicle carrying two Japanese freelance journalists and their Iraqi driver and interpreter was attacked near Baghdad and killed. 28 May 2004 Mahmoud Ismael Daood Samia Abdeljabar On 29 May, bodyguard, Mahmoud Ismael Daood and his driver, Samia Abdeljabar, were found dead after they were kidnapped a day earlier. The men worked for two journalists, Ismael Zayer, editor-in-chief of the Baghdad independent Arabic-language al-Sabah al-Jedid newspaper, and his wife Anneke van Ammelroy, who writes for the Dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer. Their abduction took place after a failed attempt to kidnap Zayer and his wife. 3 June 2004 Sahar Saad Eddin Nuami Nuami was editor-in-chief of "Al-Mizan", "Al-Khaima" and "Al-Hayat al-Gadida" and was close to a moderate pan-Arab political group. He was killed instantly when a grenade was thrown at his car by unknown assailants in Kirkuk 15 August 2004 Mahmoud Hamid Abbas An Iraqi editor/producer for ZDF, Mahmoud Hamid Abbas, 32, was killed outside Fallujah. He was believed to be heading back to Baghdad to report on US air strikes on the city. Circumstances of his death are not clear. 15 August 2004 Hossam Ali An Iraqi freelance photographer was found dead in a morgue in Falluja with an official press badge. Circumstances on how he was killed are not clear. 21 August 2004 Ghareeb The driver and translator of Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni was found dead. The journalist was kidnapped in the same incident. 26 August 2004 Enzo Baldoni Militants in Iraq announced that they had killed abducted Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni, 56, of the Milan weekly magazine Diario. A group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq announced that they killed Baldoni following Italy's refusal to withdraw its troops. 12 September 2004 Mazen Al-Tomaisi Palestinian television journalist, Mazen al-Tomaisi, was killed and two photographers were wounded when US helicopters fired missiles into a mob in Baghdad during fierce fighting. Mazen al-Tomaisi, 28, who worked for Saudi television Akhbariya and as a producer for the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya, was killed covering the fighting in Haifa Street which erupted after a US helicopter air strike. 14 October 2004 Dina Mohammad Hassan A female Iraqi television journalist was killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad. Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan Abdul Rahman said the reporter was fatally shot by three assailants driving by in an Opel car around 8:00 am. The journalist was identified as Dina Mohammed Hassan, who was working for Kurdish-run Al-Hurriya TV. 15 October 2004 Karam Hussein An Iraqi photographer working for the European Press photo Agency was shot dead by gunmen outside his home in the northern city of Mosul. Karam Hussein, 22, who formerly contributed photos to the Associated Press, was leaving his home when a group of unidentified gunmen opened fire with semiautomatic weapons. The motive for the killing was unclear. 27 October 2004 Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq Unknown Translater Gunmen killed Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, an Iraqi news reader, and her translator on their way home from work at al-Sharqiya television in Baghdad. Abdul-Razzaq was a popular presenter who had previously worked for Iraqi state television. The journalist had a 6-year old boy and a month-old baby girl. She was killed two months after her husband was murdered. The motive of the killing is not clear. 30 October 2004 Ali Adnan Hassan Alwan Ramziya Moushee Alahin Hussein Nabil Hussein A car bomb attack against the Baghdad bureau of the Dubai-based satellite broadcaster Al-Arabiya killed five station employees: Ali Adnan, a security guard; Hassan Alwan, an engineer; kitchen staff members Ramziya Moushee and Alahin Hussein; and Nabil Hussein, a gardener. More than a dozen other Al-Arabiya employees were wounded in the apparent insurgent attack. Al-Arabiya reporter Najwa Qassem said 14 other bureau employees, among them five journalists, were wounded in the blast. The bureau, in the upscale Mansour neighborhood, was used by two other Saudi-owned news stations - the satellite channel Al-Akhbariya and Al-Arabiya's sister channel, Middle East Broadcasting (MBC). Al-Arabiya's Web site reported that a previously unknown group calling itself the "Jihad Martyrs Brigades" claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on the Internet. The statement called Saturday's attack "just a warning" and threatened more attacks on Al-Arabiya and other media outlets in Iraq. The statement's authenticity could not be independently verified. About 35 staffers were meeting on the first floor when the bomb exploded directly outside the bureau's front entrance. The blast, which took place in a neighborhood that also houses Iraqi officials and government buildings, left a large crater in the street outside and collapsed the building's first floor, causing a fire. Al-Arabiya's Web site reported that the station has received numerous threats from those describing themselves as supporters of "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi", protesting its coverage and demanding that the station support the "jihad" against the U.S occupation and Iraqi government. 1 November 2004 Dhia Najim Dhia Najim, freelance cameramen for the news agency Reuters, died on assignment in the Iraqi City of Ramadi while filming heavy clashes in a gunbattle between Marines and insurgents. The cameraman was at first half-hidden by a wall and moved into the open when he was hit by a single bullet in the back of the neck that killed him instantly. Najim, born in 1957, leaves a wife, three daughters and a son. 2005 9 February 2005 Abdul Hussein Khazal Al Basri Gunmen killed Abdul Hussein al-Basri, an Iraqi journalist working for Al-Hurra, and his son as they left their home in the Maqal area of Basra, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad. Al-Basri was also a member of the political office of the Islamic Dawa Party, an influential Shiite movement, and the editor of a local newspaper in Basra. He also served as the head of the press office at Basra City Council. 12 February 2005 Dler Karam Ali On February 9, Dler Karam Ali, a Kurdish journalist working for the Al-Ittihad Al-Isalmi and Al-Ofoq Al-Islami newspapers was 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. 27 February 2005 Unkown The unidentified driver of Mohammed Sherif Ali, an Iraqi journalist working for Al-Hurra was killed after gunmen attacked their car in Iskandiriyah, south of Baghdad. Ali survived with serious injuries. 27 February 2005 Raiedah Mohammed Wageh Wazan The body of Raiedah Mohammed Wageh Wazan, the 35-year-old news presenter for the U.S.- funded Nineveh TV, was found dumped on a Mosul street, six days after she was kidnapped by masked gunmen, according to her husband, who said she had been shot four times in the head. The mother of three boys and a girl had been threatened with death several times by insurgents who demanded she quit her job. Nineveh TV was attacked the week before with mortar rounds that wounded three technicians. An Arabic-language Internet bulletin board recently carried a statement from al-Qaida In Iraq claiming responsibility for the mortar strike. 10 March 2005 Laik Ibrahim Laik Ibrahim, Kurdistan-TV’s bureau chief in Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad)was shot dead as he drove to his bureau. Kurdistan-TV is the satellite television station of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). 14 March 2005 Hussam Hilal Sarsam Hussam Hilal Sarsam, a camera operator for Kurdistan-TV, was shot and killed while attempting to escape his abductors in the city of Mosul. Sarsam,27, had been kidnapped earlier by unidentified assailants, who tried unsuccessfully to use him to abduct other journalists from Kurdistan-TV. 1 April 2005 Ahmed Jabbar Hashim Hashim, a reporter working for the Baghdad-based daily Al-Sabah, part of the U.S.-backed Iraq Media Network, was kidnapped on 25 March by an unidentified armed group. Insurgents have frequently targeted journalists working for U.S.-backed news outlets in Iraq. Eight armed men in three cars ambushed the journalist while he was taking his daily route home. They decapitated him and sent a recording of the killing to Al-Sabah as a warning. 14 April 2005 Fadhil Hazem Fadhil Ali Ibrahim Issa Two Al-Hurriya Iraqi television journalists were killed in suicide bombings while on their way to an assignment in Baghdad. The station's Baghdad director, Nawrooz Mohamed, told that producer Fadhil Hazem Fadhil and cameraman Ali Ibrahim Issa were killed on route to an event honoring the new president, Jalal Talabani. Mohamed said that the journalists were traveling in a car with a reporter and a driver when the bombs exploded outside the Interior Ministry. 15 April 2005 Shadman Abdullah Izzedine Laiq Abdullah 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. Mid-April 2005 Ahmed Al Rubai'i Al-Rubai'i, a reporter and editor at the U.S.-backed daily Al-Sabah who also worked in the media department of the Iraqi National Assembly, was abducted and apparently murdered by unknown perpetrators in Baghdad mid-April. The circumstances of his abduction and apparent murder are not clear. No body was found. Iraqi officials told the journalist's family that al-Rubai'i had been murdered, colleagues said. The Washington Post reported on June 6 report that "police arrested several members of a criminal gang who admitted to killing several people. Rubai'i's press pass was found among the identity cards in their possession." The Post said the detainees told Iraqi police that al-Rubai'i had been beheaded, although his body was not recovered. The Iraqi National Guard and Interior Ministry told Al-Sabah staffers that the perpetrators belonged to the militant group Tawhid and Jihad, and they killed al-Rubai'i because he was a "traitor." Al-Rubai'i worked as a reporter for Al-Sabah. He took a second job as a media officer for the National Assembly five months before his death, staff said. 23 April 2005 Saleh Ibrahim A television cameraman working for The Associated Press was killed when gunfire broke out after an explosion in the northern city of Mosul. AP identified the victim as Associated Press Television News cameraman Saleh Ibrahim. Saleh Ibrahim was in his early 30s and was a father of five. The circumstances of the death and injury remained unclear. 15 May 2005 Najem Abed Khudair Ahmed Adam Ali Jassem Al Rumy The attack took place when the journalists were travelling to Kerbala from Baghdad. They were among 13 passengers in a minibus that was stopped by an armed group who picked out the journalists when they showed their press cards. The rest of the passengers were freed, but Najem Abd Khudair, the Kerbala correspondent for the newspaper Al Mada, Ahmad Adam, a freelance writer for Al Mada and trainee journalist, Ali Jassem Al Rumi, working for Al Safeer newspaper in Baghdad were then killed. 31 May 2005 Jerges Mahmood Mohammad Suleiman Suleiman, a news anchor at Nineveh TV, was shot by unidentified assailants in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Nineveh TV is a local affiliate of Al-Iraqiya TV, which is part of the U.S.-backed Iraqi Media Network. Co-workers said Suleiman worked for the station for just 20 days before he was killed. He was shot as he approached Nineveh TV's offices, about 200 meters (219 yards) from the building. Colleagues said Suleiman had not received any prior threats, but they suspect he was targeted because he was an employee of Nineveh TV. Insurgents have frequently targeted Nineveh TV's offices with gunfire and mortars. 31 May 2005 Jassim Al-Quais Journalist Jassim Al Qais of Iraqi daily Al Siyada was shot dead on 22 June 2005 along with his son as they travelled on a road 10 kilometres north of Baghdad. 24 June 2005 Yasser Salihee Iraqi special correspondent for Knight Ridder, was shot to death in Baghdad. The shot appears to have been fired by a U.S. military sniper, though there were Iraqi soldiers in the area who also may have been shooting at the time. Salihee, 30, had the day off and was driving alone near his home in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Amariyah when a single bullet pierced his windshield and then his skull. He was shot as his car neared a joint patrol of American and Iraqi troops who had stopped to search a building for snipers. American and Iraqi soldiers are frequently targeted by suicide car bombers. The U.S. Army is investigating the incident. U.S. Humvees blocked three of the entry points to the intersection that Salihee was approaching. The one he was driving toward was manned by Iraqi and American soldiers on foot. It's unclear how well Salihee could have seen those troops, and whether they were standing in the road and waving motorists away, or taking cover by the side of the road in case of sniper attack. 26 June 2005 Maha Ibrahim Maha Ibrahim, a news editor with the local Baghdad TV channel, was killed when U.S. troops opened fire after apparently coming under attack in a Baghdad neighborhood, channel director Saad al-Bayati said. Ibrahim and her husband were on their way to the station, owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party. 28 June 2005 Ahmed Wael Bakri U.S. troops allegedly killed an Iraqi television director,Ahmed Wael Bakri,of al-Sharqiya television when he drove near a U.S. convoy, colleagues and a hospital official said. The U.S. military said it had no reports of the incident. He was trying to pass a traffic accident and wasn't paying attention to a U.S. convoy when troops allegedly opened fire at his car. 1 July 2005 Khaled Sabih Al Attar The head of Al-Iraqiyah told Agence-France Presse that Attar was kidnapped "shortly before Friday prayers in the north of the city and his body was found a few hours later on an empty lot on the west side." He had been shot to death. Aged 43, he worked for a satirical programme called "I don't give damn" which made fun of the carelessness of staff in government offices. Al-Iraqiyah's headquarters has been the target of several attacks. 23 July 2005 Adnan Al Bayati Adnan Al Bayati, Iraqi television producer and interpreter, was killed at home in Baghdad in the presence of his wife and daughter. Mr Adnan had been working for Italian television stations Rai, Mediaset and TG3, and for the magazine Panorama. 2 August 2005 Steven Vincent US freelance reporter, Steven Vincent, has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Basra, southern Iraq. Mr Vincent was abducted with his female Iraqi translator at gun point by five gunmen in a police car as they left a currency exchange shop. His bullet-riddled body was found on the side of a highway south of the city a few hours later. Mr Vincent was shot several times in the head and body. The translator, Nour Weidi, was seriously wounded. Mr Vincent had been in Basra in recent months working for the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Times. He had been writing a book about the city. 27 August 2005 Rafed Mahmoud al-rubai Rafed Mahmoud al-Rubai was shot by unidentified gunmen while covering a pro-Saddam Hussein rally. Rubai, a freelance contributor to the Iraqi TV station Al Irakiya, died instantly. 27 August 2005 Rafed Mahmoud Said Al-Anbagy Al-Anbagy, a 36-year-old news anchor and director at Diyala TV, part of the U.S.-backed Iraq Media Network, was shot dead in Za'toun neighborhood in the city of Baaquba, east of Baghdad, while covering a football match. Al-Anbagy was interviewing one of the team's coaches when gunmen opened fire, killing both men. Al-Anbagy was shot in the head. Diyala sources said they believe al-Anbagy was killed because of his on-air criticism of insurgent groups and former Baathists. The sources said al-Anbagy had received several death threats for his reporting. 28 August 2005 Waleed Khaled Waleed Khaled, a soundman for Reuters, was shot dead by US military forces in Baghdad. Khaled, 35, was shot in the face and chest at least four times, as he drove with cameraman Haidar Kadhem to check a report of an incident involving police and gunmen in the western Hay Al-Adil district. 16 September 2005 Hind Ismael Hind Ismail, a 28-year-old reporter for the local daily As-Saffir, was kidnapped in the northern city of Mosul. Police in the southern suburb of al-Muthana found her body the next morning with a single bullet wound to the head. 17 September 2005 Sabah Muhsin Sabah Muhsin, a driver for the Iraqi TV station Al-Iraqiya, was killed in Baghdad. 19 September 2005 Fakher Haider Fakher Haider, an Iraqi working as a reporter for the New York Times for last 2,5 years, was found dead in the southern city of Basra after being kidnapped by masked men. He was found with his hands bound and a single bullet wound to the head. Haider's brother told that four masked men in a dark Toyota vehicle had arrived at the family home in an apartment complex in central Basra after midnight. They said they were from the intelligence services and that they needed to speak to Haider in connection with an investigation. They bundled him into their vehicle and told his wife and family not to interfere. 20 September 2005 Firas Maadidi Firas Maadidi, the Mosul bureau chief for As-Saffir and chief editor of the local daily Al-Masar, was killed outside his home in Mosul. Madidi,40, was killed after being shot six times, including two shots to the head. He died hours later in hospital. 21 September 2005 Ahlam Youssef Ahlam Youssef, an Iraqi engineer working for Al-Iraqiya television was gunned down in Mosul. Youssef was driving in her car with her husband, who was also killed, and her son, who was wounded in the attack. 19 October 2005 Mohammad Harun Hassan Mohammad Harun Hassan, an editor and the Executive Secretary of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate, was gunned down by unknown attackers in Baghdad city centre. Harun Hassan was the editor-in-chief of the highly regarded Nabdh Al Shabeb Newspaper. He was known for being a well-respected senior journalist and an influential trade union activist who held a top position within the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate. He was on his way to meet the editor in chief of the Baghdad paper Al Qarar in the early afternoon when he was shot four times while driving near the Al Nahda quarter. 07 November 2005 Ahmed Hussein Al Maliki Ahmed Hussein Al Maliki, an Iraqi journalist working for Tall Afar (Today), an independent weekly covering local news, was found dead in the northern city of Mosul. He was shot, probably not long before his body was discovered. Maliki was kidnapped by insurgents as he was leaving an Internet café in a northern district of the city just over two months ago. No group ever claimed responsibility for his abduction. 28 November 2005 Aqeel Abdul Ridha Muqdad Muhsin Two journalists for the state-run Al-Iraqiya TV network were killed in Baghdad.Gunmen inside a car opened fire on Aqeel Abdul Ridha and Muqdad Muhsin in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Adil. 2006 07 January 2006 Allan Enwiyah U.S. reporter Jill Carroll was kidnapped in Baghdad and her Iraqi interpreter, Allan Ewiyah, was killed. Carroll, a freelancer on assignment in Iraq for the Christian Science Monitor, was seized on January 7 by unidentified gunmen in the Adil neighborhood of western Baghdad with her interpreter, Allan Enwiyah. Enwiyah's body was later found in the same neighborhood with two bullets to the head. Jill Carol released on 30th March. 14 January 2006 Sarmad Salman The body of Sarmad Salman was found days after being kidnapped by unknown gunmen. The journalist worked the Al Zawra Arabic Daily. 23 January 2006 Hamza Hussein Hamza Hussein, working for Al Diyar TV, killed by explosion of booby-trapped car. 24 January 2006 Mahmoud Za'al Mahmoud Za'al, who worked for Baghdad TV satellite channel, was filming an attack on two buildings occupied by U.S. forces in Ramadi when he was wounded in the legs. Moments later he was killed in a U.S. air strike. 23 February 2006 Atwar Bahjat Khaled Mahmoud Adnan Khairallah The bodies of correspondent Atwar Bahjat, cameraman Khaled Mahmoud al-Falahi, and engineer Adnan Khairallah were found near Samarra, a day after the Al-Arabiya lost contact with the crew. Bahjat, 30, was a well-known on-air figure. In a statement, Al-Arabiya said she recently joined the channel after working as a correspondent for the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera. Al-Falahi, 39, and Khairallah, 36, were employees of Wasan Productions who were on assignment for Al-Arabiya. The crew was on the outskirts of the city covering the bombing of the Shiite shrine Askariya, also known as the Golden Mosque. Al-Arabiya Executive Editor Nabil Khatib said the station lost phone contact with the crew early 22nd February evening as it was filing a subsequent report to Dubai. The station was investigating the account of a fixer for Wasan Productions who said armed men driving a white car had attacked the crew after demanding to know the whereabouts of the correspondent. All three victims were Iraqi. 8 March 2006 Monsif al Khalidi Monsif al-Khalidi of Baghdad TV, was shot dead at the wheel of his car by gunmen on the road from Baghdad to the northern city of Mosul. 11 March 2006 Amjad Hameed Anwar Turki Amjad Hameed, a journalist for Iraqiya television, was attacked by gunmen who shot him in the head and chest while he was being driven to his job. Anwar Turki, his driver, died later in the hospital. 13 March 2006 Muhsin Kudayyir Muhsin Khudayyir, also known as Abu Risalah, chief editor of the weekly magazine Alif Ba, was assassinated by unidentified persons who attacked him late at night in his place of residence in Al-Ilam district in Baghdad. 26 March 2006 Kamal Manahi Anbar Kamal Manahi Anbar, 28, enrolled in a training program run by the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting, was killed during a controversial military raid in northern Baghdad. The killing took place on March 26, after Anbar went to Baghdad's Shaab neighborhood to conduct interviews for a story. Armored Humvees arrived and a firefight broke out. Anbar was shot through the right cheekbone. 04 April 2006 So'oud Muzahim al-Shoumari Al-Shoumari, a correspondent for the Egypt-based satellite channel Al-Baghdadia, was found shot in Baghdad's southern district of Doura on April 4 by Iraqi police and taken to Yarmouk hospital morgue. Al-Shoumari, also know as al-Hadithi (the name of his family's hometown), was abducted on April 3, and his father said autopsy reports showed he was killed the same day. Al-Shoumari was alone when he was seized and his killers have not been identified, sources told the Committee to Protect Journalists. Abdelhamid al Sa'eh, director of news at the channel, said he suspected that al-Shoumari, a Sunni Muslim, was kidnapped by elements within the Shiite-dominated Iraqi police, but could not provide details. Al-Shoumari had worked for Al-Baghdadia for approximately seven months. A colleague at Al-Baghdadia said al-Shoumari regularly interviewed authorities about human rights violations, and the daily suffering of the Iraqi people. 22 April 2006 Koussai Kahdban Koussai Kahdban, an Iraqi journalist with local radio station Al-Bilad, was shot by gunmen in Baghdad. 05 May 2006 Sa'd Shammari Sa'd Shammari, a TV journalist who hosted a show on the Al-Iraqiyah channel, was found wrapped in a blanket and dumped on the side of a road in Baghdad. The journalist was apparently strangled. 05 May 2006 Sa'ud M'Zahim Al Hudaythi Sa'ud M'Zahim Al-Hudaythi, working for Baghdadiyah TV, was killed. Circumstances are unknown. 05 May 2006 Abdel Majid al-Mehmedawi Al-Mehmedawi, who had reported on social issues, was murdered by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad’s center, according to local sources. The motive for his killing was unknown. 07 May 2006 Layth Mish'an al-Dulaymi Mu'azzaz Ahmad Barud The bodies of journalist Layth Mish'an al-Dulaymi and Mu'azzaz Ahmad Barud, a switchboard attendant, were found near the Al-Wihdah irrigation project in their hometown of Al-Mada'in, southeast of Baghdad. They were employed by the private Al-Nahrayn television channel and were first abducted by elements wearing Iraqi Police uniforms and riding in Police vehicles. Source cited eyewitnesses as saying that the two were heading for the city of Al-Mada'in when they were stopped by gunmen wearing Iraqi Police uniforms and led to an undisclosed location. 07 May 2006 Abid Shakir al)Dulaymi In Basra gunmen shot dead photographer Abid Shakir al-Dulaymi. He was an active member of the Iraqi Journalists' Syndicate, and he worked at Al-Jumhuriyah and Al-Qadisiyah newspapers and was an occasional freelance for Reuters. 07 May 2006 Ismail Muhammad Khalaf Ismail Muhammad Khalaf, a printshop worker, was killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad on 7 May. The bomb exploded early in the morning targeting a police patrol and blew up near the offices of the state-run Al-Sabah newspaper. 10 May 2006 Abbas Ahmed Kadhem Abbas Ahmed Kadhem, journalist at al Adaalah (Justice) newspaper, was found dead in al Madaen. This is the same district where Laith Mashaan and Muazaz Ahmed were murdered on Sunday May 7th. The journalist, 50 years of age, worked for al Adaalha newspaper, the voice of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). He had previously worked for Babel newspaper, which was owned by Uday, the son of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He had also worked as a school teacher. He was married with children. 18 May 2006 Sadek al-Shammari Sadek al-Shammari of the German-based news organization, Iraqi News Network, was shot dead by insurgents in Jisr Diyala, south of the Iraqi capital. 29 May 2006 Paul Douglas James Brolan Cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman, James Brolan, of CBS died in Baghdad when the US military unit he was accompanying with, came under attack. The CBS team was on a patrol with soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division when a roadside bomb exploded. 31 May 2006 Jaafar Ali Jaafar Ali, TV sports presenter, was gunned down in Baghdad. Gunmen shot Ali as he left his home in Chora Rabia, a neighbourhood in south Baghdad. 14 June 2006 Ibrahim Seneid Ibrahim Seneid, an editor of the local al-Bashara newspaper, was killed by gunmen in a drive-by shooting in the city, 40 miles west of Baghdad. Al-Bashara newspaper was accused by insurgents of publishing U.S. propaganda in the western city of Fallujah. 28 June 2006 Alaa Hassan Alaa Hassan, who was working as a contributor for Inter Press Service (IPS), was on his way to work in Baghdad when he was fired on by gunmen. The IPS said that according to their information the attack was not targeted, but that their colleague "was just in the wrong place at the wrong time". 29 June 2006 Osama Qadeer On 29 June, police found the body of freelance cameraman Osama Qadeer, who worked for the US TV network Fox News. He was abducted by an unknown group in al-Shaab, eastern Baghdad, on 25 June. 29 July 2006 Adel Naji Al Mansuri Unidentified gunmen intercepted al-Mansouri, a correspondent for the Iranian state-run Arabic language satellite channel Al-Alam, as he was driving in the al-Amariyeh neighborhood of western Baghdad. Al-Mansouri,34, was driving to the station’s offices when he was attacked. The gunmen took al-Mansouri’s mobile phone, satellite phone, press card, and money. He was rushed to a hospital but died shortly afterward. It is suspected that al-Mansouri was killed because he was a journalist. Al-Mansouri, a Shiite, received death threats nearly a year ago when he resided with his family in Baghdad, where sectarian violence has intensified. 30 July 2006 Riyad Muhammad Ali Ali, reporter of the weekly Talafar al-Yawm, was shot by unidentified assailants in Mosul’s Wadi Aqab area. One local source said that they believe Ali was targeted because he was both a Shiite and a journalist. Sectarian violence in Talafar is intense, and Ali was a well-known reporter working for one of the few major local papers in the town. 31 July 2006 Abdul Wahab Abdul Razeq Ahmad Al-Qaisie Abdul Wahab Abdul Razeq Ahmad Al-Qaisie was found dead 10 days after he was abducted by masked militiamen in the New Baghdad district.He was the editor-in-chief of Iraqi Magazine Kol al-Dounia and had worked as a freelancer for European newspapers for the past 40 years. 7 August 2006 Mohammad Abbas Al Hamad Unidentified gunmen shot Mohammad, 28, an editor for the Shiite-owned newspaper Al-Bayinnah Al-Jadida, as he left his home in the Adil section of western Baghdad to go to work early the morning of August 7. Mohammad was highly critical of politicians and Iraqi officials regardless of sect or affiliation. The journalist had received several death threats because he worked for the paper, local journalists said. 7 August 2006 Ismail Amin Ali The body of freelance journalist Ali, 30, was discovered late evening by police in the eastern section of Baghdad known as al-Sadr city. His body was riddled with bullets, and Iraqi police said they found signs of torture. The journalist was abducted while he was at a gas station in al-Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad two weeks ago. The kidnappers had demanded ransom, but his family was unable to pay. Ali, a well-known Sunni columnist for several Baghdad-based papers, including Al-Sabah and Al-Qarar, may have been targeted because he was highly critical of the Shiite-dominated security forces. 9 September 2006 Abdel Karim Al-Roubai Abdel Karim al-Rubai, 40, a design editor for Al-Sabah, was shot while traveling to work in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood known as Camp Sara by several gunmen. The driver of the car was seriously wounded. Al-Sabah reported two weeks before his death that it had received a death threat via e-mail against al-Rubai and his family signed by the military wing of the Mujahedeen Council, an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq. According to the e-mail, the group was angered by the editor’s accusation that they were behind a car bomb attack on Al-Sabah on August 27, which killed a guard and an unidentified man. 12 September 2006 Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri, journalist and representative of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate for the eastern province of Diyala, was ambushed on a road north of Baghdad. His body was found riddled with bullets. 13 September 2006 Safaa Ismail Inad Safaa Ismail Inad, a photographer at al-Watan Newspaper, was shot in the head near Sadr city in eastern Baghdad. Inad was killed by gunmen who entered a photo print shop in Baghdad, asked for him by name, and then shot him. 18 September 2006 Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli, a correspondent for Baghdad TV, was shot by six gunmen in two Opel cars as the reporter/cameraman chatted with friends after midday prayers outside a mosque in the town of Ramadi. Al-Karbouli, 25, had received numerous death threats from insurgents over the past four months warning him to leave the satellite channel. Baghdad TV is owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party, a major Sunni political group in the country. The party joined the U.S.-backed Iraqi government earlier this year. Al-Karbouli worked at Baghdad TV for two years covering security and the plight of the residents of Ramadi. His features offended some insurgents in Ramadi who felt he was criticizing them. A month ago, gunmen stormed into his house and threatened him in front of his family. 04 October 2006 Jassem Hamad Ibrahim Jassem Hamad Ibrahim, a driver for the Iraqi state television channel Al-Iraqiya was shot by unidentified gunmen in Mosul. The assailants ambushed Ibrahim in the afternoon as he was running errands for the station. His body was found riddled with bullets. Earlier that day, Ibrahim had driven several camera operators around Mosul to film footage. The slaying occurred about 30 minutes after Ibrahim dropped off the camera operators at the station. They later reported that they believed they had been followed during the assignment. 10 October 2006 Azad Muhammad Hussein The body of Azad Muhammad Hussein was identified in the Baghdad morgue on 10 October, a week after he had been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, an Iraqi press freedom organization, said the body of the reporter for the Iraqi Islamic Party-owned Radio Dar Al-Salam, showed evident signs of torture. The journalist was kidnapped from al-Shaab neighborhood in northern Baghdad on October 3. It was not immediately clear how or when Hussein's body arrived at the morgue. 12 October 2006 Thaker al-Shouwili Ahmad Sha'ban Hussein Ali Abdul-Rahim Nasrallah al-Shimari Ali Jabber Noufel al-Shimari Sami Nasrallah al-Shimari Maher Ahmad Hassan Unknown The cold-blooded execution by masked gunmen of 11 employees of a fledgling satellite TV channel in Baghdad on 12 October was the deadliest single assault on the press in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. Gunmen in at least five vehicles drove up to Al-Shaabiya television in the eastern district of Zayouna around 7 a.m., Reuters reported. They burst into the station's offices and executed 11 people and wounded two. Al-Shaabiya has not yet gone on the air and has only run test transmissions. Executive manager Hassan Kamil told Reuters that the station had no political agenda and that the staff had been a mix of Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. The station had not been threatened previously. Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles. A local press freedom group, The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, named the dead as chairman and general manager Abdul-Rahim Nasrallah al-Shimari and his bodyguard, Ali Jabber; deputy general manager Noufel al-Shimari; presenters Thaker al-Shouwili and Ahmad Sha'ban; administrative manager Sami Nasrallah al-Shimari; video mixer Hussein Ali; and three guards identified only by their first names: Maher, Ahmad and Hassan. The station's generator operator, whose name was not available, was also killed. A source at Al-Shaabiya confirmed the names. Program manager Mushtak al-Ma'mouri and news chief Muhammad Kathem were taken to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. 12 October 2006 Mohammed Abdul Rahman Radio announcer Mohammed Abdul Rahman of Radio Dijala was found dead on 12 October. He was kidnapped in mid-September in the western Baghdad neighbourhood of Mansour, where he had moved after receiving threats. 14 October 2006 Raed Qais Hussein Raed Qais, a correspondent for Sout Al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq) radio was killed instantly when militants fired at his car. The attack happened before the Muslim fast-break at sunset. 16 October 2006 Ali Halil Ali Halil, a journalist for Al Iraqiya, was murdered by gunmen in the Baghdad district of Al Hurriye. 26 October 2006 Saed Mahdi Shalash Saed Mahdi Shalash and his wife were shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in an attack on their home. Shalash worked for the Rayat Al Arab newspaper. He had a 20-year career as a journalist working for the Iraqi News Agency. He left the agency in 2003. 29 October 2006 Sherin Hamid Annas Kassim Nejm An Iraqi state television presenter and her driver were found dead in Baghdad, a day after they were abducted by unknown gunmen. Sherin Hamid had hosted programmes on the al-Iraqiya station aimed at Iraq's Kurdish and Christian minorities, said Aziz Rahim, an al-Iraqiya spokesman. These programmes could have made Hamid a target of either Sunni insurgents or Shia militias. The two bodies were found in the Haifa Street district close to where they had been abducted, said police lieutenant Maithem Abdel-Razaq. 31 October 2006 Abdelmajid Isma'il Khalil Abdelmajid Isma’il Khalil, a sixty seven year old freelance journalist who worked for a number of Iraqi papers was discovered dead by police on 31 October. He had been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen on 18 October in eastern Baghdad. The Committee to Protect Journalists is currently investigating whether Khalil’s death is related to his work as a journalist. 1 November 2006 Ahmed Al-Rasheed Ahmed Al-Rasheed, 29 years, a former reporter of Addyar satellite channel and employed as a reporter by Al-Sharqia television channel recently, was shot dead by unknown militants. 2 November 2006 Qussai Abbas Unknown Driver Qussai Abbas, a journalist writing for Tariq Al Shaab, a newspaper affiliated with the Communist party, was shot to death on 2 November in Baghdad. Mr. Abbas was on his way to work, and his driver was also killed in the attack. 13 November 2006 Mohammed Al-Ban Gunmen shot dead a cameraman working for a private Iraqi television station in the main northern city of Mosul. The assassins killed Mohammed al-Ban, an employee of Sharqiya, a Sunni-owned satellite channel which is the main competitor of state-run Iraqiya television, outside his home in the central Al-Nur neighbourhood. 15 November 2006 Fasia Mohammed Abid Unknown (Driver) Gunmen killed on Wednesday a female Iraqi journalist working for a local daily and her driver in the northern city of Mosul, police said. Colonel Abdel Karim al-Juburi said gunmen in another car killed Fadia Mohammed Abid and her driver in Tahrir neighbourhood of east Mosul. "The two were killed while on the way to the office," he said. Abid worked for Al-Masar, an independent newspaper. 15 November 2006 Luma Al-Karkhi Luma Al-Karkhi was shot and killed on her way to work. She worked for the independent weekly Al-Dustor. 20 November 2006 Waleed Hassan One of Iraq's best known satirists and broadcasters was gunned down on his way to work. Waleed Hassan's "Caricature" sketch show was an unmissable part of weekend Fridays for Iraqis seeking a release in laughter from the blood and chaos around them. Hassan poked fun at sectarian violence, bickering politicians, power blackouts and all aspects of the turmoil that is daily life in Iraq. He was found in west Baghdad with three bullet wounds to the head, said the Sharkiya channel. Hassan was a director of the station and also produced a political interview show for it. 22 November 2006 Ra'ad Jafar Hamadi Ra'ad Jafar Hamadi, a journalist working for the al-Sabah newspaper, was killed in the al-Washash neighbourhood (Baghdad) by unknown gunmen. 04 December 2006 Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi, an iraqi journalist, was walking from his home in the Washhash neighborhood of northwest Baghdad to Radio Dijla (Tigris) when he was shot dead. 12 December 2006 Aswan Ahmed Lutfallah Aswan Ahmed Lutfallah, 35, an Iraqi cameraman for US-based Associated Press Television Network (APTN) was shot dead in the northern city of Mosul. He was having his car repaired in an industrial area in the eastern part of the city when insurgents and police began fighting nearby and he rushed to cover the clash. Insurgents spotted him filming, approached him and shot him to death. Aswan leaves a wife and two children. He worked for APTN in Mosul since 2005. 29 December 2006 Akil Sarhan Akil Sarhan, of sports TV channel al-Riyadia (member of the Iraqi media Network) was killed when his car was attacked by an armed group as he drove to work. 2007 05 January 2007 Ahmed Hadi Naji The body of an Associated Press employee was found shot in the back of the head Friday, six days after he was last seen by his family leaving for work. Ahmed Hadi Naji, 28, was the fourth AP staffer to die violently in the Iraq war and the second AP employee killed in less than a month. He had been a messenger and occasional cameraman for the AP for 2 1/2 years. The circumstances of Naji's death were unclear. Dozens of Iraqis are found slain almost every day in Baghdad, many believed victims of sectarian death squads. 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. 12 January 2007 Khudr Younis al-Obaidi Khudr Younis al-Obaidi, who worked for Al-Diwan newspaper, the mouthpiece of tribes in the northern region, was gunned down in the afternoon by several men in a car as he walked in the street. 13 January 2007 Yassin Aid Assef Yassin Aid Assef, Al Anbar correspondent for the Al Sabah newspaper, was killed by a bomb while out covering a story in Baghdad. 13 January 2007 Unknown Unknown Two employees of Al Sabah newspaper (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. 15 January 2007 Falah Khalaf Al Diyali Journalist Falah Khalaf Al Diyali of the daily Al Saha was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on 15 January in the city of Ramadi. 16 January 2007 Unknown A security guard’s body was found on the Al Sabah 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. 28 January 2007 Munjid Al-Tumaimi Tumaimi was gunned down in Najaf (160 km south of Baghdad) on 28 January as he tried to take pictures in the city’s hospital of people who had been killed or injured in the course of clashes near Najaf with more than 300 casualties. His killers, who were not identified, took his camera and mobile phone. 7 February 2007 Nabras Mohammed Hadi Azhar Abdullah Al-Maliki Sabah Salman 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, the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The incident occurred in al-Salihiya in central Baghdad near the Iraqiya TV headquarters. 19 February 2007 Hussein Al Zubaydi Hussein Al Zubaydi, a journalist with the weekly al-Ahali, was killed by gunmen in unclear circumstances in Baghdad. 20 February 2007 Abdel Razeq Hashim al-Khaqani The bullet-riddled body of Abdel Razeq Hashim al-Khaqani, a journalist who was working as an editor in the Iraqi radio, was found in the forensic medicine department in Baghdad. He was kidnapped by an armed group last week in al-Jihad neighborhood in western Baghdad while visiting relatives. The Iraqi radio is part of the government funded Iraqi media network. 3 March 2007 Jamal al-Zubaidi The body of an Iraqi journalist, who disappeared a week ago, was found within the precincts of al-Aamil district, according to the Iraqi Association for Defending Journalists' Rights on Saturday. "Jamal al-Zubaidi, the managing editor of Baghdad's al-Safir (the ambassador) newspaper, was found killed in southwest Baghdad and showed signs of having been shot in the head," the association said in a statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). 4 March 2007 Mohan al-Dhaher An Iraqi journalist was shot dead outside his home in a Sunni neighborhood in western Baghdad on Sunday, neighbors and colleagues at his newspaper said. They said Mohan al-Dhaher, a senior editor at the independent al-Mashriq daily newspaper, had just left his house to go to work when gunmen in two vehicles pulled up and tried to kidnap him. When Dhaher resisted, the gunmen shot him dead, they said. Dhaher, who was about 50, was married and had four children, his neighbors said. 7 March 2007 Youssef Sabri Youssef Sabri, an Iraqi TV journalist was among the 22 killed from a car bombing at a Baghdad checkpoint in the al Dawra district in the south of Baghdad. Sabri worked for Biladi TV, a privately-owned station affiliated with al-Dawa, a Shia political party, and was reportedly at the checkpoint to film Shia pilgrims leaving the capital for the holy city of Karbala. 16 March 2007 Hussein al Jaburi The editor of the daily al-Safir, Hussein al Jaburi, 63, 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. 19 March 2007 Hamid al-Duleimi The body of Hamid al-Duleimi, 37, a producer on the TV channel al-Nahrain (the two river banks) was found dead in the Baghdad morgue. He had been abducted two days previously as he left the channel's studios. Autopsy reports revealed that the journalist had been tortured. 5 April 2007 Thaer Ahmed Jabr Husain Nizaer A senior Iraqi journalist and journalist trainee were killed when a suicide truck bomb exploded outside a television channel's headquarters. 5 April 2007 Khamail Khalaf A journalist from the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has been found dead in Baghdad with gunshot wounds to her head and body, the broadcaster said. RFE/RL, which has its headquarters in Prague, said in a statement that Khamail Khalaf, a reporter for the radio's Arabic service, was last seen on April 3. Her body was found in western Baghdad on Thursday. Khamail had reported for RFE/RL since 2004 on social and cultural affairs in Iraq. She worked previously for Iraqi television. 6 April 2007 Othman al-Mashhadani The body of Othman al-Mashhadani, a reporter for the Saudi newspaper Al Watan who had been kidnapped two days previously, was found in Baghdad. 12 April 2007 Iman Yussef Abdallah Gunmen shot dead Iman Yussef Abdallah, who worked for the radio mouthpiece of the Mosul workers' union, 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. 3 May 2007 Adel al-Badri Unknown Gunmen attacked a local radio station in west Baghdad killing two employees and halting transmission. Dozens of gunmen assaulted the independent Radio Dijla in the Jamia neighbourhood and shot four technicians, two of them fatally. The electric generator operator and security guard Adel al-Badri were shot dead outside the building, before the gunmen entered the premises and sprayed the area with gunfire, wounding two other technicians before leaving. 6 May 2007 Dmitry Chebotayev Chebotayev, 29, was a Moscow-based freelance photographer who was working in Iraq for the Russian edition of Newsweek magazine. He had also worked for European Pressphoto Agency (EPA). Chebotayev and six soldiers from the US coalition died as a result of injuries sustained when their vehicle was attacked by a roadside bomb in Diyala Province. 9 May 2007 Raad Mutashar Imad Abdul-Razzaq Aqil Abdul-Qadir Nibras Razzaq Four Iraqi print journalists were killed in a drive-by shooting near the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk. They were working for the independent Raad media company, which publishes several weekly newspapers and monthly magazines that deal with politics, education and arts. Those killed were identified as the company's director, Raad Mutashar, and three of his colleagues, Imad Abdul-Razzaq, Aqil Abdul-Qadir and Nibras Razzaq, the driver. Their attackers, armed with machine guns, opened fire as they drove past a vehicle carrying the journalists in the Rashad area south-west of Kirkuk. 17 May 2007 Alaa Uldeen Aziz Saif Laith Yousuf Alaa Uldeen Aziz, cameraman, and Saif Laith Yousuf, soundman, working for the US network ABC were killed when the car they were travelling in was attacked. 20 May 2007 Ali Khalil An Iraqi newspaper reporter was kidnapped while leaving a relative's house in Baghdad and found dead several hours later. The attack on Ali Khalil, 22, occurred on Sunday in Baiyaa, an increasingly volatile neighbourhood in Baghdad. 26 May 2007 Aidan Abdallah Al-Jamiji According to Iraqi police, 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 city of Kirkuk. 28 May 2007 Abdel Rahman al-Issawi In the western city of Fallujah, journalism professor Abdel Rahman al-Issawi was murdered by gunmen together with six of his family members. Issawi, who contributed to several newspapers and satellite channels and taught media studies, was killed along with his father, brother, and four children in his home. 29 May 2007 Mahmoud Hassib al-Qassab 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. Mahmoud Hassib al-Qassab, the editor of al-Hawadeth weekly, was an ethnic Turkoman and the fourth journalist to be killed in Kirkuk this month. 30 May 2007 Nezar Abdul Wahid al-Radi Gunmen killed Nezar Abdul Wahid al-Radi in the southern city of Amara as he prepared for a journalism workshop with colleagues. A group of three gunmen opened fire against Nezar Abdul Wahid al-Radi and five other journalists near al-Arousa Hotel in central Amara, killing him on the spot. Radi was hit by four bullets while his colleagues were unharmed. 7 June 2007 Sahar al-Haideri A journalist working with the independent Aswat al-Iraq news agency in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was killed by gunmen. Sahar al-Haideri was married with three daughters. Her body was found in the al-Hadbaa neighbourhood of northeastern Mosul. 11 June 2007 Aref Ali A journalist working for the independent Aswat al-Iraq news agency was blown up by a roadside bomb in the volatile province of Diyala north of Baghdad, the third agency employee to be killed in the past two weeks. Aref Ali, 32, was killed while on assignment in Diyala, where violence has spiked as al Qaeda and other Sunni insurgents battle U.S. and Iraqi troops. Aswat al-Iraq said Ali was hit by a roadside bomb near the town of Khalis, north of Baghdad. 17 June 2007 Flayeh Wadi Mijdab Gunmen ambushed Flayeh Wadi Mijdab, editor of the state-owned al-Sabah newspaper, on 13 June in eastern Baghdad as he was heading to work, police said. His 25-year-old son and driver were left behind. Mijdab's body was discovered 17 June near the Firdaws mosque in the al-Bonuk area of northeast Baghdad, and handed over to a local morgue, police said. 24 June 2007 Zeena Shakir Mahmoud Zeena Shakir Mahmoud was shot to death on her way home from work in Mosul. Mahmoud, a former radio broadcaster, was writing about women's affairs for the Al-Haqiqa newspaper. Although she worked for a Kurdish paper, she was a Sunni Arab. 25 June 2007 Rahim al-Maliki Rahim al-Maliki, who worked for al-Iraqiya TV, was among 13 people killed in a suicide attack at a Baghdad hotel, where he was filming tribal leaders about their decision to join U.S.-led forces in the fight against factions linked to al-Qaida. Four of the tribal sheiks from the western Anbar province were among the victims. 26 June 2007 Hamed Sarhan Iraqi journalist Hamed Sarhan was killed by gunmen in southern Baghdad. Sarhan, 57, was shot dead on his way home. For more than 30 years, Sarhan worked for many newspapers, local magazines and also for the Iraqi news agency. He is survived by his wife and five children. 27 June 2007 Luay Suleiman Luay Suleiman, a Christian working with a newspaper called Nineveh al-Hurra in the northern city of Mosul, and another man were found dead on Wednesday, Brigadier General Saeeh Ahmed of Nineveh police told AFP. "Luay was carrying an identity card which showed him working as a reporter with the newspaper," Ahmed said. He said the two men, who were also members of a local Christian cultural organisation, were killed by gunmen in the Al-Zuhur neighbourhood of Mosul. 04 July 2007 Mohammed Hilal Karji Baghdad TV's journalist, Mohammed Hilal Karji was kidnapped on June 8 outside his home while on his way to work in the Yusifiyah region south of Baghdad. His body was later found in the morgue 04 July 2007 Sarmad Hamdi al-Hassani Baghdad TV's journalist, Sarmad Hamdi al-Hassani was seized from his home in Baghdad's Al-Jamia neighbourhood on June 27. His body was later found in the morgue 06 July 2007 Ali Watan Ali Watan, journalist working for Samawa local TV, was 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. Watan was killed by a sniper's bullet while entering the Samawa TV building. 11 July 2007 Unknown An Iraqi translator for Reuters was shot to death by gunmen, an apparent victim of sectarian death squads. The London-based news agency did not identify the translator at the request of relatives, apparently to avoid publicizing the family's link to the company. The 30-year-old translator was killed while driving with two of his brothers in southeast Baghdad, an area where Shiite and Sunni militants operate. 12 July 2007 Namir Noor-Eldeen Saeed Chmagh Photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40,working for Reuters in Iraq were killed in eastern Baghdad at a time when clashes had been taking place between U.S. forces and militants in the area. The cause of their deaths is unclear. Witnesses spoke of an explosion in the area. Iraqi police said either a U.S. air strike or a mortar attack had occurred. Noor-Eldeen was single. Chmagh was married with four children. 13 July 2007 Khalid W. Hassan Khalid W. Hassan, 23, an Iraqi journalist for The New York Times was shot to death as he headed to work in the southwest Baghdad district of Sadiyah. The circumstances of the attack remain unclear at this time. Hassan worked for the paper in Baghdad for four years. 16 July 2007 Mustafa Gaimayani Majeed Mohammed Mustafa Gaimayani, editor of Kirkuk al-Yawm, and Majeed Mohammed, a sports reporter for the paper, were killed when a suicide attacker driving a truck packed with explosives detonated the vehicle near one of the offices of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, in central Kirkuk. At the time of the blast Mohammed and Gaimayani were working on the weekly in preparation for its publication. Mohammed was also a correspondent and Gaimayani a writer for the Kurdish-language weekly Hawal. Gaimayani, who was also known as Mustafa Darwish, was in his mid-40s. He was a dual national with Swedish citizenship. Majeed Mohammed was in his mid-30s. 27 July 2007 Adnan al-Safi Adnan al-Safi, 40, a journalist working for Al-Anwar, a Kuwaiti-owned satellite channel died after being shot in the head by a sniper on his way home from work. Safi died from nerve damage more than 24 hours after the incident, which took place in the Otaifiyah area of northern Baghdad. Safi, who also worked as an adviser to the Iraqi journalists' union and as a reporter for Sawt al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq), is survived by his wife and three children. 27 August 2007 Anwar Abbas Lafta Anwar Abbas Lafta, an Iraqi who had worked for CBS News for 10 months, was abducted on the evening of August 20 by men who entered his home, fought with him and his brother and shot his sister in the arm, CBS said in a statement. His family received two ransom calls during the week, and then a cousin received a call from police that a body had been found on the north side of Sadr City, the large Shi'ite neighbourhood in Baghdad. The cousin identified the body. Abbas, who was in his early 50s and was not married, had worked as a translator for the U.S. military in Iraq for about three years before joining CBS News. 3 September 2007 Amir al-Rashidi Unidentified gunm