ASSASSINATED MEDIA PROFESSIONALS IN IRAQ www.brusselstribunal.org/JournalistKilled.htm 2003-2011

www.brusselstribunal.org/JournalistKilled.htm A - ASSASSINATED IRAQI MEDIA PROFESSIONALS Gende Profession Nr Name Date Incident Age r Source 06.04.2003 - Kamaran killed when the American troops bombed a Kurdish convoy in the 1 Qomran Abdul Razzaq translator in the BBC 6/04/2003 25 M Abdurazaq Muhamed, north of Iraq translator, BBC Iraqi interpreter working for killed when gunmen ambushed and kidnapped the group in 2 Unknown interpreter 12/04/2003 M Malaysian journalists Baghdad. Waleed Khalifa Hassan Al- 3 Elisabeth Neuffer's translator 9/05/2003 died in the accident where Elisabeth Neuffer died, near Samarra. M Dulami Aqeel Mohammad Rasheed editor in chief of Al-Faiha 4 24/06/2003 killed by knife stabs in his town Hilla M Al-Janabi newspaper reporter , Kurdistan Satellite shot and killed by U.S. forces outside the bureau's office along the 02.07.2003 - Ahmad Karim, 5 Ahmad Kareem 25/08/2003 M Channel Tigris River. Kurdistan Satellite TV 28.10.2003 - Ahmed 6 Ahmad Shawkat editor in Bila-Itijah weekly 28/10/2003 killed by two armed men who raided his house and shot him M Shawkat, Bila Ittijah 27.01.2004 - Duraid Isa 7 Doraid Issa Mohamad translator and producer in CCN 27/01/2004 shot in an ambush in Baghdad outskirts 27 M Mohammed, producer and translator, CNN 27.01.2004 - Yasser Khatab, 8 Yassir Khattab driver with CNN 27/01/2004 shot in an ambush in Baghdad outskirts 25 M driver, CNN killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union 9 Abdul Sattar Abdul Kareem photographer 1/02/2004 M and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked cameraman, Kurdistan Satellite killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union 10 Ayoob Mohamad Salih 1/02/2004 M Channel and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union 11 Ghareeb Mohamad Salih cameraman KSC 1/02/2004 M and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union 12 Heiman Mohamad Salih cameraman in Qulan TV 1/02/2004 M and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union 13 Kamiran Mohamad Omar freelancer 1/02/2004 M and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked Nassree, Kurdish newspaper, editor killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union 14 Mahdi Khashnaw 1/02/2004 M in chief and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union 15 Mahdi Saad Abdulla Thiraeei newspaper editor-in-Chief 1/02/2004 M and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union 16 Nassih Saleem freelancer 1/02/2004 M and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union 17 Safeer Nadir camera man in Qulan TV (KDP), 1/02/2004 M and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked 1 killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union 18 Salah Saidak Itihad editor–in-Chief 1/02/2004 M and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union 19 Shawkat Sheikh Yazdeen publisher 1/02/2004 M and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union 20 Simko Kareem Mohiddeen free Lance cameraman 1/02/2004 M and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked Al-Jazeera newspaper editor-in- 21 Mahmood Awad Hamadi 2/03/2004 killed by the American troops in Falluja 33 M Chief 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 Selwan Abdelghani Medhi freelance translator working for the been established. Al-Niemi's wife, Ban Adil Serhan, a former translator 22 5/03/2004 M al-Niemi U.S.-funded Voice of America 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. 18.03.2004 - Majid Rachid, 23 Majeed Rasheed technician in IMN 18/03/2004 shot by armed men in Diyala (Baquba) M technician, Diyala Television 18.03.2004 - Mohamad 24 Mohamad Ahmad Sarhan Security agent with IMN 18/03/2004 shot by armed men in Diyala (Baquba) M Ahmad, security agent, Diyala Television 18.03.2004 - Ali Abdel Aziz, 25 Ali Abdul Azziz cameraman, Al-Arabiya Satellite 18/03/2004 shot by the American troops 35 M Al-Arabiya 18.03.2004 - Ali Al-Khatib, Al- 26 Ali Al-Khateeb Al-Arabiya correspondent 18/03/2004 shot by the American troops in Baghdad 32 M Arabiya 18.03.2004 - Nadia Nasrat, 27 Nadia Nasrat announcer in the Iraqi Media Net 18/03/2004 shot by armed men in Diyala (Baquba) F Diyala Television 26.03.2004 - Bourhan 28 Burhan Mohamad Mazhoor cameraman, ABC 26/03/2004 shot by the American troops in Falluja 34 M Mohammad al-Louhaybi , ABC News 26.03.2004 - Omar Hashim 29 Omar Hashim Kamil reporter, Time magazine 26/03/2004 shot by armed men in Baghdad M Kamal, translator, Time 19.04.2004 - Assad Kadhim, 30 As'ad Kadim Iraqiya TV reporter 19/04/2004 shot by the American troops In Samarra, with his driver M Al-Iraqiya TV 29.04.2004 - Hussein Saleh, 31 Husein Salih driver, Al-Iraqiya 19/04/2004 shot by the American troops in Samarra M driver, Al-Iraquiya TV 21.05.2004 - Rachid Hamid cameraman in Al-Jazeera news 32 Rasheed Hamid Wali 21/05/2004 shot by unknown fire source, in Karbala M Wali, cameraman assistant, Al- channel Jazira 25.05.2004 - Unknown, 33 Unknown Translator 25/05/2004 M translator killed along with the two journalists when their car was attacked by interpreter working for Japanese gunmen in Mahmoudiya, 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of Baghdad, 27.05.2004 - Muhammad 34 Muhammad Aldin freelance journalists Shinsuke 27/05/2004 M according to news reports. (Agence France-Presse (AFP) listed the Aldin, translator, Le Soir Hashida and Kotaro Ogawa interpreter as Mohamed Najmedin 29.05.2004 - Mahmoud reporter, Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed 35 Mahmood Ismael Dawood 29/05/2004 shot by armed men in Baghdad M Ismael Daood, bodyguard, Al- newspaper Sabah al-Jadid

2 29.05.2004 - Samia administrator and technician, Al- 36 Samiya Abd al-Jabir 29/05/2004 shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad F Abdeljabar, driver, Al-Sabah al- Sabah Al-Jadeed Jadid 03.06.2004 - Sahar Saad reporter in Meezan and Al-Hayat 37 Sahar Saad Al-Noaimi 3/06/2004 killed when a grenade was thrown on his car in Kerkuk F Eddine Nouami, Al-Mizan, Al- Al-Jadida 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 15.08.2004 - Hossam Ali, 40 Husam Ali freelance cameraman 15/08/2004 killed in Falluja by unknown armed men M freelance 15.08.2004 - Mahmoud 41 Mahmood Hamid Abbass cameraman, German TV 15/08/2004 shot by unknown armed men in Fallujah 32 M Hamid Abbas, ZDF Isam Hadi Muhsin Al- http://www.rsf.org/special_ira 42 Cameraman Südost Media 15/08/2004 Still missing, probably killed M Shumary q_en.php3 Iraqi journalist accompanying the killed by armed men near Najaf, after the Italian journalist was 43 Ali Jabir 21/08/2004 M Italian journalist Enzo Baldini kidnapped photographer, Gazeta Wyborcza 25.08.2004 - Jamal Tawfiq 44 Jamal Tafeeq Salman 25/08/2004 shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad M August 25, 2004 Salmane, Gazeta Wyborcza The driver and Baldoni were ambushed by gunmen while traveling outside Baghdad, accordinmg to news reports and CPJ sources. The driver working for freelance 45 Ghareeb 28/08/2004 two were reported missing on August 20. They were believed to be M journalist Enzo Baldoni heading to the southern city of Najaf, where U.S. forces had battled with Shiite insurgents for several weeks 02.09.2004 - Ismaïl Taher 46 Ismael Tahir Mohsin reporter for AP 2/09/2004 shot near his house by unknown armed men M Mohsin, Associated Press 7.10.2004 - Ahmad Jassem, 47 Ahmad Jasim reporter, Al-Iraqiya 7/10/2004 shot by unknown armed men M Nivive television 14.10.2004 - Dina Mohamad 48 Dina Mohamad Hassan reporter to Al-Huriya TV 14/10/2004 killed in Adhamiya by armed men 38 F Hassan, Al Hurriya Television 14.10.2004 - Karam Hussein, 49 Karam Hussein photographer 14/10/2004 Pressphoto, killed in Mosul M European Pressphoto Agency 27.10.2004 - Liqaa Abdul- 50 Liqa' Abdul Razzaq newsreader in Al-Sharqiya TV 27/10/2004 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad F Razzaq, Al-Sharqiya Gunmen killed Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, an Iraqi news reader, and her 51 Unknown translator translator 27/10/2004 translator on their way home from work at al-Sharqiya television in M Baghdad. 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 3 shot by an American sniper in his head when he was covering the 01.11.2004 - Dhia Najim, 59 Dhia Najim cameraman, Reuters 1/11/2004 47 M fighting between armed men and the American troops Reuters

editing designer, in Al-Jumhoriya 60 Maisoon Abdul Hafidh 10/01/2005 killed near her office in Baghdad F newspaper editor-in-chief of the Parliament 61 Muayd Sámi 13/01/2005 killed by unknown armed men M news paper in Baquba 62 Ali Dhia Hassan reporter in al-Nahdha newspaper 16/01/2005 shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad 27 M Ali Dhia Hassan's sister, reporter in 63 Huda Dhia Hassan 16/01/2005 shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad F Nahdha newspaper 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

09.02.2005 - Abdel Hussein 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 Khazaal, Al-Hurra TV shot and injured by US forces on the road between Baghdad and Darbandikhan, in Northern Iraq. He died 3 days later in hospital. He Kurdish journalist working for the was passing through a US military checkpoint on his way to cover the 67 Dler Karam Ali Al-Ittihad Al-Isalmi and Al-Ofoq Al- 12/02/2005 M elections when US soldiers on duty asked the car to stop, the driver Islami newspapers refused and the soldiers started shooting at the car, seriously injuring Karam Ali. driver working for Mohammad killed when gunmen attacked their car in Iskandiriyah, a town Sherif Ali, an Iraqi journalist working 68 Unidentified driver 25/02/2005 about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Baghdad. Ali was seriously M for Al-Hurra, a U.S.-funded Arabic injured in the attack. television station 25.02.2005 - Raeda 69 Raida Al-Wazzan announcer in Al-Iraqiya satellite TV 28/02/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 35 F Mohammed Wageh Wazzan, Iraqiya 10.03.2005 - Laik Ibrahim, 70 Laiq Ibrahim reporter in Kurdistan radio 10/03/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Kerkuk M Kurdistan-TV 14.03.2005 - Houssam Hilal 71 Husan Hilal Sarsam cameraman in Kurdistan TV 14/03/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 27 M Sarsam, Kurdistan-TV 14.04.2005 - Ali Abrahim 72 Ali Ibrahim Issa cameraman, Al-Hurriya TV 14/04/2005 killed in an explosion near the interior ministry in Baghdad M Aissa, Al-Hurriya TV 14.04.2005 - Fadel Hazem 73 Fadhil Hazim Fadhil Al-Hurriya TV reporter 14/04/2005 killed in an explosion near the interior ministry in Baghdad 35 M Fadel, Al-Hurriya TV Ahmad Abdul Jabbar 01.04.2005 - Ahmed Jabbar 74 reporter in Al-Sabah Daily 1/04/2005 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men M Hashim Hashim, Al Sabah 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 15.04.2005 - Shamal a prominent personality on Kirkuk 75 Shadman Abdullah Izzedine 15/04/2005 armed men driving in a black Nissan. Local journalists also said that M Abdallah Assad, Kirkuk TV, TV Kirkuk TV's anti-insurgent stance has made it vulnerable to attack Kurdsat from armed groups, and they believe Izzedine was targeted for his work with the station.

4 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 assistant of Shadman Abdullah 76 Laiq Abdullah 15/04/2005 armed men driving in a black Nissan. Local journalists also said that M Izzedine 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. disappeared in mid-April and is presumed dead. No body has been reporter and editor at the U.S.- found. However, his press pass was found in the possession of backed daily Al-Sabah who also several criminals arrested in June, and they told authorities that he 77 Ahmed Al Rubai'i 15/04/2005 M worked in the media department of had been beheaded because he was a "traitor." his newspaper work, the Iraqi National Assembly al-Rubai'i became a media officer for the National Assembly a few months before his disappearance. 23.04.2005 - Saleh Ibrahim, 78 Salih Ibrahim AP reporter 23/04/2005 killed in an explosion targeting the American troops in Baghdad M 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 journalist and writer in Al-Mada 15.05.2005 - Ahmad Adam, 81 Ahmad Adam Mostafa 15/05/2005 slaughtered by unknown armed men in Yousfiya M Daily Al-Madaa and Sabah 82 Ali Jassem Al Rumi freelance reporter 15/05/2005 slaughtered by unknown armed men in Yousfiya M 15.05.2005 - Najem Abed 83 Najim Abid Khudheir freelance reporter 15/05/2005 slaughtered by unknown armed men in Yousfiya M 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 reporter of Al-da'wa newspaper In 85 Haydar Al-Jourani 1/06/2005 killed by the American troops in the fighting with the Mahdi Army M Najaf Saadi Khalaf, an Oil Ministry employee; Muhammad Khalaf, a 86 Muhammad Khalaf Reporter 10/06/2005 reporter, Esam Fadhil, their cousin, found bound, tortured, gunshot M wounds in Dora, Baghdad.[source: IBC] reporter of Al-Sad newspaper, 87 Ahmad Khalid Sultan member of Young Journalists 17/06/2005 killed by unknown armed men west of Baghdad M Association 22.06.2005 - Jassim Al Qais, 88 Jasim Al-Qaissi reporter in Al-Siyada newspaper 22/06/2005 killed in his car with his son north of Baghdad M Al Siyada 89 Jasim Al-Sheikhly freelance journalist 22/06/2005 killed by unknown armed men M 03.07.2005 - Maha Ibrahim, 90 Maha Ibrahim editor-in-chief, Baghdad TV 26/06/2005 shot by the American troops in Baghdad F Baghdad TV 28.06.2005 - Wael Al Bakri, 91 Ahmad Wa'il Al-bakri TV director in Al-Sharqiya TV 28/06/2005 shot by the American troops in Baghdad M Al Charkiyah reporter to an American media 22.06.2005 - Yasser Al 92 Yassir Al-Salihi 30/06/2005 shot in his car by the American troops 30 M group Night Ridder Salihy, Knight Ridder 93 Hadi Hassan Al-Shamari editing secretary Biladi magazine 1/07/2005 killed by unknown armed men M producer and presenter in Al- 01.07.2005 - Khaled Sabih al 94 Khalid Sabih Al-Attar 1/07/2005 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 43 M Iraqiya TV Attar, al-Iraqia

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

5 23.07.2005 - Adnan Al producer and presenter in the 96 Adnan Al-Bayati 23/07/2005 killed in his house in Baghdad by unknown armed men M Bayati, Rai, Mediaset, TG3 and Italian TV Panorama 97 Nouriya Itais translator of Steven Vincent 2/08/2005 kidnapped and shot down by unknown armed men F reporter in Iraqiyoon News Agency, Abdul Qadir Mohamad Al- 98 worked also for Reuters, was married 8/08/2005 shot by the US and Iraqi troops in Falluja 31 M Badrani and had 3 children. In another development, an Iraqi journalist was shot dead by Iraqi 99 Unknown Iraqi journalist Unknown 10/08/2005 soldiers as he was driving his car near their patrol on a main road in M Fallujah, local residents said. Zaid Mohamad Salloom Al- 100 driver in Al-Hurra news channel 12/08/2005 killed by unknown armed men south of Baghdad M Zubaidi 27.08.2005 - Rafed Al Rubaii, 101 Rafed Al Rubaii Al Irakiya 27/08/2005 M Al Irakiya Rafid Mahmood Said al- 102 radio presenter in Diyala, IMN 27/08/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Al-Gatoon area M Anbagy 103 Raed Mahmud TV director/journalist in Baquba 27/08/2005 Shot down in Baquba [source: IBC] M shot by the American troops in Hay Al-Adil in Baghdad while he was 104 Hayder Kadhim reporter, Reuters 29/08/2005 M covering the fighting shot by the American troops in Hay Al-Adil in Baghdad while he was 28.08.2005 - Waleed Khaled, 105 Walid Khaled Ibrahim reporter, Reuters 29/08/2005 35 M covering the fighting Reuters TV 21.09.2005 - Firas Al- 106 Firas Al-Ma'adhidi Al-Safeer newspaper reporter 16/09/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 40 M Maadhidi, Al-Safir 17.09.2005 - Sabah Mohssin, 107 Sabah Mohssin Al-Iraqiya 17/09/2005 M Al-Iraqiya New York Times reporter and 19.09.2005 - Fakher Haydar 108 Haydar Fakhir Al-Tamimi 19/09/2005 kidnapped and killed in Basra 38 M director of Al-Mirbad News Channel Al-Tamimi, New York Times Al-Safeer newspaper reporter in 20.09.2005 - Hind Ismail, Al- 109 Hind Ismael 20/09/2005 killed by unknown armed men 28 F Mosul Safir 21.09.05 - Ahlam Youssef , 110 Ahlam Yousif Tv engineer, Al-Iraqiya TV 22/09/2005 killed in Mosul by unknown armed men F 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 secretary general of Iraqi 19.10.2005 - Mohamed Mohamad Haroon Al- 113 Journalists Union, editor-in-chief of 19/10/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad 37 M Haroun, Union of Iraqi Fatlawi Al-Qadhiya Daily Journalists general secretary kidnapped for two months then killed by unknown armed men in 07.11.2005 - Ahmed Hussein 114 Ahmad Hussein Al-Maliki reporter in Tallafar newspaper 7/11/2005 M Musol Al Maliki, Tall Afar 28.11.2005 - Akeel Abdul 115 Akeel Abdul Ridha Al-Iraqiya 28/11/2005 killed by unknown armed men 55 M 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 6 10.01.2006 - Allan Enwiyah, translator, Christian Science killed when the American journalist Jill Carol was kidnapped in 119 Alan Anoi 7/01/2006 33 M American journalist Jill Carroll’s Monitor Baghdad interpreter 120 Sarmad Salman freelance sports reporter 10/01/2006 kidnapped and killed by armed men in Baghdad M 25.01.2006 - Mahmoud Zaal, 121 Mahmood Za'al reporter Baghdad TV 14/01/2006 killed by the American troops in Khaldiya 35 M Television cameraman at Baghdad TV satellite channel 16.01.2006 - Luaay Salam 122 Luaay Salam Radeef Al-Baghdadia 16/01/2006 M Radeef, Al-Baghdadia Cameraman 23.01.2006 - Hamza 123 Hamza Hussein sports reporter, Al-Diyar TV 22/01/2006 killed in a car bomb in Baghdad 18 M Hussein, sport journalist at private TV station Al-Diyar writer and professor of journalism 124 Abdul Razzaq A-Na'as 29/01/2006 shot by unknown armed men, in Baghdad M in Baghdad university shot and killed by an unknown assailant near his home in the driver and security guard who Doura section of Baghdad. The attack took place shortly after Siddik 125 Mohammad Siddik worked part time with the Voice of 17/02/2006 dropped a VOA correspondent at Baghdad airport. The assailant M America 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 kidnapped on February 20, was found dead five days later on a roadside in Mosul, where the journalist had lived and worked, news anchor with the Iraqi state 126 Raeda Wazzan 20/02/2006 according to press reports citing her husband. She had been shot in F TV channel Al-Iraqiya the head repeatedly. Gunmen had also kidnapped Wazzan's 10-year- old son, but he was released days later 23.02.2006 - Adnane 127 Adnan Kheiralla tv engineer, Al-Arabiya 23/02/2006 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen 36 M Kahïnallah, sound recordist Al- Arabiya 23.02.2006 - Atwar Bahjat, 128 Atwar Bahjat Al-Arabiya correspondent 23/02/2006 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen 30 F al-Arabiya TV 23.02.2006 - Khaled 129 Khalid Mahmood Al-Falahi Al-Arabiya cameraman 23/02/2006 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen 39 M 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

07.03.2006 - Monsef Al- 131 Monsif Abdulla Al-Khalidi news director in Baghdad TV 7/03/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 35 M Khalidi, Baghdad TV Sat Channel 11.03.2006 - Amjad Hameed, 132 Amjad Hamid Mohsin Al-Iraqiya TV director 11/03/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad, including his driver M Al-Iraqiya 11.03.2006 - Anwar Turky, 133 Anwar Turky driver, Al-Iraqiya TV 11/03/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad M Amjad Hameed’s driver, Al- Iraqiya 13.03.2006 - Muhsin 134 Mohsin Khodeir editor-in-chief, Alefba' magazine 13/03/2006 killed by unknown armed men M Khudhair, Alef Ba

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

reporter in Al-Nahar and 26.03.2006 - Kamal Manahi killed by the American-Iraqi joint troops when he was covering a 136 Kamil Manahi Anbar correspondent of the Institute of 19/03/2006 M Anbar, Institute for War and military raid on a mosques in Baghdad War and Peace Journalism Peace Reporting

So'oud Muzahim al- correspondent for the Egypt-based found shot in Baghdad's southern district of Doura on April 4 by 137 4/04/2006 M Shoumari satellite channel Al-Baghdadia Iraqi police and taken to Yarmouk hospital morgue.

Abdul Jalil Jasim Al- killed in a suicide explosion while he was covering a Friday prayer 138 reporter in Al-Risala newspaper 8/04/2006 M Mahamadawi in a mosque in Baghdad 22.04.2006 - Qussay 139 Qusai Al-Amiri media coordinator in Al-Bilad radio 22/04/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad M Kahdban, radio Al-Bilad

TV journalist who hosted a show found wrapped in a blanket and dumped on the side of a road in 140 Sa'd Shammari 5/05/2006 M on the Al-Iraqiyah channel Baghdad. The journalist was apparently strangled.

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

murdered by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad’s center, according 142 Abdel Majid al-Mehmedawi reported on social issues 5/05/2006 M to local sources. The motive for his killing was unknown.

7.05.2006 - Ismail 143 Ismail Mohammad Khalaf Al Sabah 7/05/2006 killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad M Mohammad Khalaf, Al Sabah Iraqi journalist, Al-Nahrain TV, a found dead south of Baghdad, a day after they were stopped by 7.05.2006 - Leith Al- 144 Laith Mishan al-Dulaimi 8/05/2006 M private station men wearing police uniforms Doulaïmi, Al-Nahrain Iraqi journalist, Al-Nahrain TV, a found dead south of Baghdad, a day after they were stopped by 7.05.2006 - Mouazaz Baroud, 145 Muazaz Ahmed Barood 8/05/2006 28 M private station men wearing police uniforms Al-Nahrain Photographer for Jumhureyya and 5.05.2006 - Abdel Chaker Al 146 Abed Shaker al Delaimi al Qadeseyya newspapers and 8/05/2006 killed in Basra by unknown armed men 29 M Dalimi, Independant occasional freelance for Reuters photographer 5.05.2006 - Saoud Mazahem 147 Saud M’Zahim Al-Hedaithi Baghdadiyah TV 8/05/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad M Al-Hadithi, Al-Baghdadia journalist at al Adaalah (Justice) was found dead in al Madaen. This is the same district where Laith 148 Abbas Ahmed Kadhem 10/05/2006 M newspaper Mashaan and Muazaz Ahmed were murdered on Sunday May 7th. Baghdad (Dora) A reporter who was gunned down in Baghdad…He worked for a pro-Sunni Iraqi 149 Muzahim al-Hadithi 11/05/2006 was found dead - shot repeatedly in the head - in Baghdad's M television station notorious Dora neighborhood last week of the German-based news 150 Sadek al-Shammari 18/05/2006 shot dead by insurgents in Jisr Diyala, south of the Iraqi capital. M organization, Iraqi News Network 151 jafaar Ali TV Sports presenter of Al Iraqiya 31/05/2006 11th Al-Iraqiya employee gunned down in Baghdad M cameraman for Al-Iraqiya TV, , May 152 Mohammed Jassim 31/05/2006 killed by unknown gunmen north of Baghdad 27 M 31, 2006 153 Ibrahim Seneid Journalist Al Bashara 13/06/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18030 M

8 Iraqi journalist, who reported for Hassan was killed on Jun. 28 by armed men as he drove to work. It the international news agency IPS 154 Alaa Hassan 28/06/2006 appears he was not targeted, but was just in the wrong place at the 35 M (Inter Press Service), was shot and wrong time killed in Baghdad. 155 Ossama Qadeer Cameraman, Fox News 29/06/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18170 M killed in the western Baghdad's district of al- Ameriya. Naji was kidnapped on Monday by unknown gunmen in al-Atifiya 156 Adel Naji Al Mansouri Journalist Al Alam TV 1/08/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18451 35 M neighborhood in Baghdad's district of al-Karkh. The police found his body inside his car with multiple gunshots in al- Ameriya. Monday night, Iraqi journalist Abdul Wahab Abdul Razeq Ahmad Al Abdul Wahab Abdul Razeq Journalist, editor-in-chief of Kul Al- 157 31/07/2006 Qaisie was found dead 10 days after he was kidnapped by masked M Ahmad Al Qaisie Dunya magazine gunmen in Baghdad a reporter for the local weekly Tal Riyad Muhammad Ali was shot by unidentified assailants in Mosul 158 Riyad Muhammad Ali 31/07/2006 M Afar al-Yawm on Sunday. 159 Riyad Atto Talafar al Youm 1/08/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18498 M Late Monday, police found the bullet-riddled body of Ismail Amin 160 Ismail Amin Ali / Ismael freelance journalist 7/08/2006 Ali, 30, about a half mile from where he was abducted two weeks ago 30 M Mohammad in northeast Baghdad. The body showed sign of torture. Mohammed Abbas Hamad, 28 was shot by gunmen at he left his a journalist for the Shiite-owned 161 Mohammed Abbas Hamad 7/08/2006 home Monday in the Adil section of western Baghdad, police Lt. 28 M newspaper Al-Bayinnah Al-Jadida Mohammed Khayoun said. killed when an explosive-packed car detonated in the building’s A guard employed by the state-run garage at about 8:30 a.m. The blast killed another, unidentified 162 Unidentified 27/08/2006 M daily newspaper Al-Sabah person, injured 20 others, and caused severe damage to the newspaper building in Baghdad’s northern Waziriya district The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory said on Tuesday that Iraqi Journalist, editor at Al-Ameen and journalist Iyad Nassif al-Mousawai was found killed after he was 163 Iyad Nassif al-Mousawai 29/08/2006 34 M Al-Ra’i newspapers kidnapped by an armed group in Palestine Street in east Baghdad last month. senior technician with the 164 Abdel Karim Al-Roubai 9/09/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18806 41 M government daily Al-Sabah Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri, 56, was ambushed as he was driving 125 representative of the Iraqi miles northeast of Baghdad, according to the Journalistic Freedoms 165 Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri 12/09/2006 56 M Journalists Syndicate Observatory. His body was found riddled with bullets. CPJ is investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.

Police found the body of Safaa Ismail Inad shot in the head near 166 Safaa Ismail Inad journalist at al-Watan Newspaper 12/09/2006 31 M Sadr city in eastern Baghdad, police said

assistant to Isam Rasheed, a KILLED by US troops when he was on the way to Isam Rasheed's 167 Alaa Adel "videoblogger" or "correspondent" 15/09/2006 M house. They shot him in the head with a special bullet. based in Baghdad 168 Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli correspondent for Baghdad TV 18/09/2006 http://www.cpj.org/news/2006/mideast/iraq18sept06na.html 25 M

9 shot by unidentified gunmen in Mosul. The assailants ambushed driver for the Iraqi state television Ibrahim at about 2 p.m. as he was running errands for the station, 169 Jassem Hamad Ibrahim 4/10/2006 M channel Al-Iraqiya according to a source at Nineveh TV, the local affiliate of Al-Iraqiya. His body was found riddled with bullets 170 Jassim Aarif Hassan Al-Charkiya TV 7/10/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19138 M correspondent to Dar al-Salam found killed after he was kidnapped by an armed group a week ago. 171 Azad Mohammed Hassan 10/10/2006 29 M Radio Dar al-Salam Radio is run by the Sunni Muslim Clerics Commission The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with Abdel Rahim Nasrallah Al Director of "Shabiyaa" television 11/10/2006 two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore 172 M Shumari station police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles. The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with Producer of "Shabiyaa" television 11/10/2006 two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore 173 Dhakir Hussein Al Shuwaili M station police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles. The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with Producer "Shabiyaa" television 11/10/2006 two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore 174 Ahmad Shaaban M station police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles. The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with Deputy Director of "Shabiyaa" 11/10/2006 two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore 175 Nawfal Al Shumari M television station police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles. The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with Technician of "Shabiyaa" television 11/10/2006 two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore 176 Hussein Ali M station police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles. The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with Head Administrator of "Shabiyaa" 11/10/2006 two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore 177 Sami Nasrallah Al Shumari M television station police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles. The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with Security Guard of "Shabiyaa" 11/10/2006 two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore 178 Maher M television station police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles. The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with Security Guard of "Shabiyaa" 11/10/2006 two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore 179 Ahmed M television station police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles. The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with Security Guard of "Shabiyaa" 11/10/2006 two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore 180 Hassan M television station police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles. The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with Security Guard of "Shabiyaa" 11/10/2006 two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore 181 Ali Jabber M television station police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles. The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with electric generator operator of two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore 182 Bashir 11/10/2006 M Shabiyaa TV station police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles. 10 He was kidnapped in mid-September in the western Baghdad 183 Mohammed Abdul Rahman Radio announcer of Radio Dijala 12/10/2006 neighbourhood of Mansour, where he had moved after receiving 55 M threats. 184 Ali Hlayel security guard for Atyaf 13/10/2006 http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/Iraq/iraq_media_killed.html M al-Iraqiya channel...government- 185 Raed Qais al-Shammari 14/10/2006 killed in a drive-by shooting in southern Baghdad. 28 M run TV murdered by gunmen yesterday in the Baghdad district of Al 186 Ali Halil Al Irakiya journalist 16/10/2006 M Hurriye prof in journalism, director of the 187 Saad Mehdi Shalash editing board at Rayat Al Arab 25/10/2006 killed along with his wife in their home in Baghdad M newspaper presenter on the Kurdish-language murdered in her car along with her driver, Anas Kassim Nejm, in the 188 Nakshin Hama Rashid 29/10/2006 F TV station Atiaf centre of Baghdad driver for the Iraqi state television murdered in her car along with her driver, Anas Kassim Nejm, in the 189 Anis Qassem 29/10/2006 M channel Atyaf centre of Baghdad 190 Sherin Hamid TV presenter Al Iraqiya TV 29/10/2006 http://www.ifj.org/pdfs/JournalistsKilled2007finalweb.pdf M kidnapped on 18 October in the east Baghdad neighbourhood of Freelance journalist, worked for Jamila by gunmen who surrounded his car and forced him to go with 191 Abdelmajid Ismael Khalil 31/10/2006 67 M several national dailies them. Local police found his body 13 days later in the same neighbourhood killed in Adhamiya around 6:30 p.m. Friday, according to an official reporter with al-Sharqiya, an Iraqi with the Iraqi Journalistic Freedoms Observatory. The reporter was in 192 Ahmed al-Rasheed 3/11/2006 29 M satellite TV channel his car when he was killed. Al-Rasheed, 29, started working at the station in September. He previously worked with al-Diyar TV. Tariq Al Shaab, a newspaper gunned down with his driver in a similar fashion as he was travelling 193 Qussai Abass 2/11/2006 M affiliated to the Communist Party to the newspaper’s office in Baghdad gunned down with journalist Qussai Abass as he was travelling to 194 Unknown Driver Tariq Al Shaab newspaper 2/11/2006 the newspaper’s office in Baghdad cameraman for the TV station al- Gunmen in Mosul kill him. He also worked for local newspaper Al 195 Mohammed al-Ban 13/11/2006 58 M Sharqiya Masar. Journalist with the Al Masar Gunmen kill journalist Fadia Mohammed Ali and her driver on her 196 Fadia Mohammed Ali 15/11/2006 40 F newspaper in Mosul way to the newspaper Gunmen kill journalist Fadia Mohammed Ali and her driver on her 197 Unknown driver Driver Al Masar newspaper 15/11/2006 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 killed in the east Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Washash when his 200 Raad Jaafar Hamadi Journalist Al Sabah 22/11/2006 car was fired on by four gunmen in another vehicle, which M immediately took off. 201 Fadhila Abdul Karim reporter for Mosul Radio 27/11/2006 killed in Mosul F venait de quitter son domicile en voiture quand il a été tué par des 202 Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi Journalist Radio Dijlah 4/12/2006 36 M assaillants non-identifiés 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 203 Aswan Ahmed Lutfallah APTN cameraman 12/12/2006 35 M car repaired when two gangs started shooting at each other. He was shot when he took out his camera to film the clash. 11 IWPR contributor from Ramadi, in died of severe head injures on December 26 after being hit by a Anbar province, who over the past roadside bomb in the Baghdad neighbourhood Kadhimiya. He was 204 Yasin al-Dulaimi / Yasin two years had regularly filed excellent 26/12/2006 36 M driving home when the device, targeting a US convoy, went off. He al-Yasin features and news analysis for died at the scene. IWPR’s Iraqi Crisis Report member of the Iraqi media Network) was killed when his car was 205 Akil Sarhan sports TV channel al-Riyadia 29/12/2006 M attacked by an armed group as he drove to work. 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 messenger and occasional in the Ashurta Al Khamsa District in southwest Baghdad at 10:30 206 Ahmed Hadi Naji 5/01/2007 28 M cameraman for the AP 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. 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 207 Khoudr Younes al-Obaidi Freelance journalist 12/01/2007 M journalist, who was as a stringer for several titles, worked mostly for Al-Diwan, the press organ of local tribes. No motiv 208 Yassin Aid Assef Al Sabah’s correspondent 14/01/2007 killed by a bomb while out covering a story in Baghdad M shot dead by unidentified gunmen on 15 January in the city of 209 Falah Khalaf Al Diyali journalist of the daily Al Saha 15/01/2007 M Ramadi Four employees of the governmental daily Al Sabah were killed in an especially horrifying manner from 12 to 16 January. Two, whose employee of the governmental 210 Unknown 16/01/2007 names have not been revealed, were kidnapped from the M daily Al Sabah newspaper’s offices in Baghdad on 12 January and were found with their throats cut the next day near Al Nouman hospital. Four employees of the governmental daily Al Sabah were killed in an especially horrifying manner from 12 to 16 January. Two, whose employee of the governmental 211 Unknown 16/01/2007 names have not been revealed, were kidnapped from the M daily Al Sabah newspaper’s offices in Baghdad on 12 January and were found with their throats cut the next day near Al Nouman hospital. 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, 212 Unknown security guard Al Sabah 16/01/2007 M said he was probably shot from a distance with a hunting rifle while patrolling the building’s roof. http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis 213 Salih Mehdi Mustaqbal radio station 17/01/2007 M ts_Killed_in_2007 Reporter Iraqi Media Network, http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis 214 Mohammed Nuri assassinated in the Ninewa 20/01/2007 M ts_Killed_in_2007 governorate Reporter Iraqi Media Network, http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis 215 Baha' Hussein Khalaf assassinated in the Ninewa 20/01/2007 M ts_Killed_in_2007 governorate editor in chief of the Protection of http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis 216 Dhiaa' Mugotar Consumers business magazine, is 24/01/2007 M ts_Killed_in_2007 assassinated in Adhamiya 217 Munjid Al-Tumaimi Freelance photographer 28/01/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=20929 M reporter, killed in a car bombing in http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis 218 Sabir Amid Mahdi 2/02/2007 M the Babel governate ts_Killed_in_2007

12 Reporter for Iraqi Media Network, http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis 219 Suhad Al-Khalidi killed by US troops when their patrol 4/02/2007 F ts_Killed_in_2007 passes by her car in Hilla Three guards working for the government funded al-Iraqiya TV were killed by fire of foreign security guards in central Baghdad, a 220 Nabras Mohammed Hadi security guard 7/02/2007 M media source said. Foreign security guards accompanying a delegation shot and killed three guards working for al-Iraqiya TV. Three guards working for the government funded al-Iraqiya TV were killed by fire of foreign security guards in central Baghdad, a 221 Azhar Abdullah al-Maliki security guard 7/02/2007 M media source said. Foreign security guards accompanying a delegation shot and killed three guards working for al-Iraqiya TV. Three guards working for the government funded al-Iraqiya TV were killed by fire of foreign security guards in central Baghdad, a 222 Sabah Salman security guard 7/02/2007 M media source said. Foreign security guards accompanying a delegation shot and killed three guards working for al-Iraqiya TV 223 Hussein Al Zubaydi journalist with the weekly al-Ahali 19/02/2007 killed by gunmen in unclear circumstances in Baghdad M The bullet-riddled body of Abderrazak Hashim Al-Khakani, a Abderrazak Hashim Al- journalist with radio Jumhuriyat Al 224 20/02/2007 journalist with radio Jumhuriyat Al Iraq, was discovered in a Baghdad 45 M Khakani Iraq morgue reporter, killed together with his http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis 225 Rasoul Abdul Hussein 21/02/2007 M wife in Diwaniya ts_Killed_in_2007 managing editor of Baghdad's al- found killed in southwest Baghdad and showed signs of having 226 Jamal al-Zubaidi 2/03/2007 M Safir (the ambassador) newspaper been shot in the head A few days earlier he had managing editor of al-Mashriq murdered by unidentified gunmen near his home in western 227 Mohan al-Dhahr 3/03/2007 49 M published a trenchant article newspaper Baghdad, criticising government finances. was among the 22 killed from a car bombing at a Baghdad Iraqi TV journalist for Biladi TV, a checkpoint in the al Dawra district in the south of Baghdad. He was 228 Youssef Sabri privately-owned station affiliated with 14/03/2007 M reportedly at the checkpoint to film Shia pilgrims leaving the capital for al-Dawa the holy city of Karbala. He died from his injuries in a hospital in Amman, Jordan on 16 229 Hussein al Jaburi editor of the daily al-Safir 16/03/2007 March where he was taken for treatment after being ambushed 63 M outside his Baghdad home on 11 February. producer on the TV channel al- His body was found dead in the Baghdad morgue. He had been 230 Hamid al-Duleimi 19/03/2007 37 M Nahrain abducted two days previously as he left the channel’s studios. program director for the Dijlah http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis 231 Hamid Mohammed Salih radio station, is assassinated in the 19/03/2007 M ts_Killed_in_2007 Jami'a district reporter for the Iraqi Media http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalis 232 Mohammed Jassim Yousif Network, assassinated west of 31/03/2007 M ts_Killed_in_2007 Baghdad well-known to Iraqis as a TV and kidnapped by gunmen as she left her office in the university district 233 Khamel Mohsin radio presenter during the Saddam 3/04/2007 on 3 April. Her body was found the next day. She had worked for F Hussein era. Radio Sawa since Saddam’s removal. freelance journalist for the Arabic- language service of the US-funded found today, three days after she went missing. She had been shot. 234 Khamail Khalaf 6/04/2007 F Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) since 2004 killed and at least 12 people were wounded in an attack on the 235 Thaer Ahmed Jabr Baghdad TV deputy director 5/04/2007 satellite TV station yesterday in which a truck laden with explosives M was driven at the building and then gunmen opened fire. 13 killed and at least 12 people were wounded in an attack on the 236 Husain Nizaer journalist trainee - Baghdad TV 5/04/2007 satellite TV station yesterday in which a truck laden with explosives M was driven at the building and then gunmen opened fire. 237 Othman al-Mashhadani Al-Watan 9/04/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21653 M Gunmen shot dead Iman Yussef Abdallah and her husband in an radio mouthpiece of the Mosul eastern area of the city, the Iraqi Association for the Defence of 238 Iman Yussef Abdallah 12/04/2007 F workers' union Journalists' Rights said. Their bodies were later set alight in their vehicle, left his home on April 12 in the neighbourhood of Abu Ghraib and Khaled Fayyad Obaid al- producer for Nahrain, a drove to Baghdad, purposefully speeding as he always did along the 239 12/04/2007 M Hamdani satellite television channel in Baghdad so-called Highway of Death to minimise danger. An American patrol spotted him and, apparently alarmed by his speed, shot him dead. gunmen attacked staff at the independent radio station in a 240 Adel al-Badri Staff employee of Radio Dijla 3/05/2007 predominantly Sunni area of Baghdad, killing two and wounding five, M and then bombed the building and knocked the station off the air gunmen attacked staff at the independent radio station in a 241 Unknown Staff employee of Radio Dijla 3/05/2007 predominantly Sunni area of Baghdad, killing two and wounding five, M and then bombed the building and knocked the station off the air chairman of Kirkuk writers' union Three journalists and their driver were killed on Wednesday when and owner of al-Raad media 242 Raad Mutasha al-Issawi 9/05/2007 their car was intercepted by an armed group near the northern city of M institution, which publishes a number Kirkuk. of papers An armed group in a car intercepted and opened fire at the car that 243 Abdul-Razzaq al-Obeidi writer working for al-Raad. 9/05/2007 three journalists were onboard, killing them on the spot along with the M driver near al-Rashad district, 25 km southwest of Kirkuk. A police source told Reuters that the men were targeted because of 244 Aqeel Abdul-Qader writer working for al-Raad. 9/05/2007 their work, and that they were actually dragged from the car first and M tortured before being shot. The killed journalists were Raad Mutashar, chairman of Kirkuk writers' union and owner of al-Raad media institution, which publishes 245 Nibras Razzaq Driver 9/05/2007 M a number of papers, and Imad Abdul-Razzaq al-Obeidi and Aqeel Abdul-Qader, both writers working for al-Raad. Two Iraqi journalists working for ABC News were captured by 246 Alaa Uldeen Aziz Cameraman for ABC News 17/05/2007 33 M gunmen and executed in Baghdad Two Iraqi journalists working for ABC News were captured by 247 Saif Laith Yousuf Soundman for ABC News 17/05/2007 26 M gunmen and executed in Baghdad kidnapped while leaving the home of a relative in Baghdad, and 248 Ali Khaleel reporter for Az-Zaman 21/05/2007 22 M found dead several hours later Unidentified gunmen killed the editor-in-chief of a weekly 249 Mahmoud Hassib al-Qassab editor of al-Hawadeth weekly 28/05/2007 newspaper published in Kirkuk in front of his house in the M predominantly-Turkoman neighborhood of al-Musalla, northern Kirkuk the body of Aidan Abdullah al-Jamiji, who was in charge of Kirkuk in charge of Kirkuk television's television's Turkoman language section and was a well-known local 250 Aidan Abdullah al-Jamiji 26/05/2007 M Turkoman language section 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 Unknown armed men on Tuesday night stormed the house of Abul Rahman al-Essawi, a journalist, in Abu Saleh town in Ameriyah reporter for the independent 251 Abul Rahman al-Essawi 30/05/2007 Falluja district, south of Fallujah, and opened fire against him and his 34 M National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) six-member family. Al-Essawi was killed along with his wife, son, parents and three other relatives,

14 An armed group consisting of three gunmen opened fire against correspondent for Voices of Iraq Nezar Abdul Wahid al-Radi and five other journalists at 11:00 am near 252 Nazar Abdul-Wahid al-Radi and the director of the Young 30/05/2007 38 M al-Arousa Hotel in central Ammara, killing him on the spot. The other Journalists’ League in Missan journalists survived shot twice while walking to a mosque near his home on his day off, Iraqi cameraman working for the 253 Saif M. Fakhry 31/05/2007 the agency said in a statement, adding that he was the fifth 26 M Associated Press Associated Press (AP) employee to die violently during the Iraq war. Killed on Thursday afternoon in Mosul by unidentified gunmen. Her name was among other names listed by what is called "Emir of the 254 Sahar Hussein al-Haydari Voices of Iraq (VOI) correspondent 7/06/2007 Islamic State in Mosul". Al-Haydari was born in Baghdad in 1962 and 45 F had a bachelor’s degree in media. She is survived by her husband and three daughters. kidnapped June 7 outside his home while on his way to work in the 255 Mohammed Hilal Karji Journalist for Baghdad TV 7/06/2007 Yousifiyah region south of Baghdad, and his bullet-ridden body was 27 M found in a morgue the following day, an official at the station said. correspondent working for the killed on Monday when an explosive charge went off near Khalis 256 Aref Ali Filaih independent news agency Voices of 11/06/2007 district, 55 km north of Baghdad, while he was performing his mission 32 M Iraq (VOI) as a journalist His body was found in the main Baghdad mortuary four A longtime journalist, he had kidnapped on Wednesday morning while leaving his house, along days after he was kidnapped. worked for a state-run newspaper with his son, in al-Habebiya neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. Three The editor of his newspaper 257 Fleh Dway Megthab under the former regime and now 17/06/2007 53 M civilians vehicles intercepted Dway's car and took him captive. His said that the journalist had was the political editor of a body was found on Sunday in Baghdad's morgue with bullet received threatening phone government-financed daily Al Sabah. calls for some time but continued to work. Meanwhile, media sources At least 78 people were killed and 224 wounded, including a said that the correspondent of correspondent for the Egyptian correspondent for the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, in a car bomb the Egyptian daily al-Ahram in Unknown 19/06/2007 ? ? daily Al-Ahram (was wounded) explosion targeting the Shi’ite Khillani mosque in a crowded area of Baghdad, Mohammad al- central Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon Anwar, was only injured in the attack, not killed. former radio broadcaster, was Zeena Shakir Mahmoud was shot to death on her way home from 258 Zeena Shakir Mahmoud writing about women's affairs for the 24/06/2007 work in Mosul. Although she worked for a Kurdish paper, she was a 35 F Al-Haqiqa newspaper Sunni Arab. 259 Rahim Al-Maliki Reporter Al-Iraqiya and poet 25/06/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22723 39 M Lu'ay Sulayman Luqman, journalist, Zuhayr Yusuf Astivu, both 260 Lu'ay Sulayman Luqman Journalist 27/06/2007 members of a Christian cultural society,; gunned down in a drive-by 21 M shooting in central Mosul. [source: IBC] Hassani, 43, was seized from his home in Baghdad's Jamia 261 Sarmad Hamdi al-Hassani Journalist for Baghdad TV 27/06/2007 neighborhood on June 27, his body found the next day, the official 43 M said. veteran journalist who had worked Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi journalist near his house in the for the Iraqi News Agency for over 30 Turath disrict of southern Baghdad, a source from the Iraqi Journalists 262 Hamed Abd Farhan 27/06/2007 57 M years, as well as several local Union said.Most recently he worked in the media bureau of the newspapers and magazines Baghdad Municipality. body found of Louaï Souleimane, journalist for the 263 Louaï Souleimane Reporter Nineveh 28/06/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22809 M Nineveh al-Hurra newspaper [source: IBC] 15 264 Mohammed Hilal Karji Journalist Baghdad TV 4/07/2007 http://www.ifj.org/assets/docs/101/215/48f5565-778f0d7.pdf M killed in the clashes that erupted between security forces and 265 Ali Watan Journalist for Samawa local TV 7/07/2007 fighters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army in the M southern Iraqi city of Samawa during the last two days killed in eastern Baghdad at a time when clashes had been taking 266 Namir Noor-Eldeen Reuters photographer 12/07/2007 22 M place between U.S. forces and militants in the area. killed in eastern Baghdad at a time when clashes had been taking 267 Saeed Chmagh Reuters Driver 12/07/2007 40 M place between U.S. forces and militants in the area. shot dead in Baghdad's Saidiyah neighborhood, according to New Iraqi correspondent with the New 268 Khalid W. Hassan 13/07/2007 York Times Baghdad Bureau Chief John Burns, who said "the 23 M York Times circumstances of the attack remain unclear at this time." Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi who worked as a translator for Reuters 269 Unknown translator for Reuters 14/07/2007 in Baghdad this week.Family members said they did not want to 30 M reveal the name of their son. Mustafa Darwich 270 editor for Kirkuk al-Yawm 17/07/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22982 M Germayani 271 Majid Mohammed sports reporter for Kirkuk Al-Yawm 17/07/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22981 M correspondent for the Al-Anwar 272 Adnan Al-Safi 25/07/2007 shot by a sniper’s bullet in the Utaifiya district of Baghdad 39 M satellite channel Abdul Khaliq al-Habir al- caricaturist in al-Mutamar killed along with his 11-member-family in the car bombing attack 273 26/07/2007 M Anbaki newspaper that took place on Thursday in Karrada, central Baghdad killed by gunmen who stole him from his home. His body was found 274 Anwar Abbas Lafta CBS translator 26/08/2007 M in the morgue last night cameraman who works for Al- Unidentified gunmen killed Amir al Rashidi, a cameraman who 275 Amir al Rashidi 3/09/2007 42 M Iraqiya works for Al-Iraqiya, in the centre of Mosul on Monday night Unidentified gunmen have killed Muhannad Ghanim Ahmed, who Muhannad Ghanim Al Journalist Radio Dar al-Salam 276 20/09/2007 worked for the privately owned Radio Dar al-Salam, in the eastern Al- M Ubeidi Mosul Muharibeen district of the city. Iraqi television presenter working He was ambushed in the western Baghdad neighbourhood of Al- 277 Jawad al-Daami with the private Al-Baghdadiyah 23/09/2007 Qadisiyah as he was driving through the area on Sunday. Gunmen 40 M channel opened fire on his car and Daami was killed instantly. member of the Iraqi press syndicate, was a reporter for the official Iraqi newspapers al-Qadissiya killed during a late hour on Friday evening when a mortar shell fell 278 Abdul-Khaliq Nasser and al-Jumhuriya, which both 28/09/2007 in the area of Bab al-Bayd, western Mosul. Nasser was at his 50 M stopped after the U.S. forces invaded brother's home when shell hit it Iraq in 2003. He then worked for several local newspapers in Mosul. 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 279 Salih Saif Aldin reporter for the Washington Post 14/10/2007 first reporter for the newspaper to be killed during the Iraq war. The 32 M 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.

16 Three journalists, working for al- Investigation indicated that the three were security men, Watan newspaper, were killed and Unknown gunmen on Sunday night opened fire against two not journalists. Three of the two of their companions were injured 280 Jasem Mohammad Noufan 15/10/2007 vehicles with a number of journalists onboard on the Kirkuk-Riyadh M editor-in-chief's bodyguards in the attack. (According to an IFJ road near Houd 18 village in southwestern Kirkuk were killed by unidentified statement 18/10/2007, this person gunmen in southwestern Kirkuk was a journalist) (16/10/2007) Three journalists, working for al- Investigation indicated that the three were security men, Watan newspaper, were killed and Unknown gunmen on Sunday night opened fire against two not journalists," Three of the two of their companions were injured 281 Khaled Mohammad Noufan 15/10/2007 vehicles with a number of journalists onboard on the Kirkuk-Riyadh M editor-in-chief's bodyguards in the attack. (According to an IFJ road near Houd 18 village in southwestern Kirkuk were killed by unidentified statement 18/10/2007, this person gunmen in southwestern Kirkuk was a journalist) (16/10/2007) Three journalists, working for al- Investigation indicated that the three were security men, Watan newspaper, were killed and Unknown gunmen on Sunday night opened fire against two not journalists,". Three of the two of their companions were injured 282 Ziyad Tareq Al Dibo 15/10/2007 vehicles with a number of journalists onboard on the Kirkuk-Riyadh 32 M editor-in-chief's bodyguards in the attack. (According to an IFJ road near Houd 18 village in southwestern Kirkuk were killed by unidentified statement 18/10/2007, this person gunmen in southwestern Kirkuk was a journalist) (16/10/2007) According to an IFJ statement 18/10/2007, this freelance reporter, contributed person is the same as Ziyas killed in an ambush north of Baghdad that left his two security Dhi Abdul-Razak al-Dibo / stories to at least two weekly Tareq Al Dibo. Two security 15/10/2007 guards wounded. Dhi Abdul-Razak al-Dibo, a 32-year-old freelance 32 M Eyad Tariq Al-Takriti newspapers in Tikrit / Correspondent guards, A'allal Abedaljabbar reporter, was driving his BMW with his guards near Kirkuk of the weekly Al Watan Salaameh and Mohhamed Shakir Mahmoud, were injured in the attack. During the kidnapping of the Unidentified kidnappers killed the driver for Radio Free Iraq U.S.-funded Radio Free correspondent Jumana al-Obaidi when they seized the reporter on Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) 283 Abdullah, driver Driver of RFE/RL correspondent 22/10/2007 M her way to a scheduled assignment at the Iraqi Environment Ministry correspondent, the driver was on October 22. The radio service, which said the driver was h shot and his body dumped in the street. 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 284 Shehab Mohammed al-Hitti Journalist Baghdad News 27/10/2007 the east of Baghdad while on his way to work. He had worked for 27 M Baghdad News since 2003. He worked for several dailies, including al-Zaman and Babel under the previous regime 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 285 Mohamad Jawad Ali technician of Biladi, satellite TV 5/12/2007 de Bagdad a coûté la vie à Mohamad Jawad Ali, 20 ans, étudiant à 20 M l’université technologique de Bagdad et également collaborateur technique de la chaîne satellitaire Biladi. Aged 23, Moussawi was found dead in his home in the northeast Journalist - Baghdad district of Habibiya after an Iraqi military raid on his street. 286 Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi 14/12/2007 23 M www.aliveinbaghdad.org According to an autopsy, he was shot 31 times in the head and chest. Moussawi had working for several months on sensit A roadside bomb killed a television journalist and a driver north of Alaa Abdul Karim Al- journalist al-Forat TV, an Iraqi 287 30/01/2008 Baghdad. A correspondent and assistant cameraman were seriously 29 M Fartoosi television station wounded.

17 A roadside bomb killed a television journalist and a driver north of driver al-Forat TV, an Iraqi 288 Alaa Assi 30/01/2008 Baghdad. A correspondent and assistant cameraman were seriously M television station wounded. Hamdan had appeared on Iraqi satellite channels advocating on behalf of the Police discovered his body and took him to Al-Tib al-Adli morgue in families, which may have made Baghdad. Haidar Hasoun, founder and head of the association, said him a target, Hasoun said. that the journalist, who exhibited signs of torture, was shot in the head Hamdan worked as a political and chest. Hamdan's family lost contact with him on Sunday morning reporter for the bimonthly paper board member of the Young when he went to buy stationery supplies from a Baghdad market. 289 Hisham Mijawet Hamdan 12/02/2008 27 M Al-Siyassa wal-Karar, published Journalists Association Hamdan was active in a campaign organized by the association less by the Young Journalists than two months ago in support of the families of journalists killed in Association. The paper's print Iraq and called on the Iraqi government and civil society organizations edition recently became to do more to assist them. He was also part of a committee formed to defunct, but the association collect financial contributions for the families of slain journalists. maintains the paper's Web site, according to Hasoun, who serves as the editor-in-chief. independent journalist working for many local newspapers. He was On Saturday, unidentified gunmen opened fire on Temimi in al- known for his outspoken views Wazieriya neighborhood, central Baghdad, while he was leaving the against the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of syndicate’s building to attend a cultural activity nearby, seriously 290 Shihab al-Tamimi 27/02/2008 74 M Iraq and the continued presence of wounding him. U.S. troops on Iraqi soil. He was also A celebrated Iraqi journalist, a septuagenarian Temimi has won the a stern critic of Iraq's sectarian recent syndicate elections that were held in July 2003 violence. head of public relations and Qassem Abdul Hussein al- father of five children, was shot by unknown gunmen while walking 291 distribution for the local political daily 13/03/2008 36 M Eqabi in Baghdad’s largely Shiite Karradah neighborhood newspaper Al-Muwaten. cameraman working for the al- killed by an unidentified gunman in the area of al-Qarna, 100 km 292 Ali Jassem al-Battat 25/04/2008 38 M Nakhil TV channel north of Basra journalist working for the Baghdad- unknown gunmen opened fire on the journalist working for the based Muraseloon news agency; she 293 Sirwa Abdul-Wahab 4/05/2008 Baghdad-based Muraseloon news agency while heading for work in 36 F worked also for the Tikrit-based Salah al-Bakr neighborhood, eastern Mosul, killing her instantly, al-Din TV channel. shot dead by U.S. soldiers in eastern Baghdad's Obaidi district at 294 Wisam Ali Ouda Afaq television channel cameraman 22/05/2008 32 M around 5pm on Wednesday, killed by an American sniper. Police forces found in al-Tahrir neighborhood in central Baaquba, journalist working for al-Sharq the body of Haydar Hussein. The dead man had been kidnapped a 295 Haidar Hashim al-Husseini 22/05/2008 35 M newspaper few days ago by an armed group in Bahraz district, south of Baaquba. The body bore signs of gunshot wounds to the head. the killers shot him in the head from their car just after he presenter for the local Ninewa TV unidentified gunmen assassinated Mohey al-Din Abdel Hamid al- left his home in Mosul. Abdul- Mohey al-Din Abdel Hamid 296 and Radio, affiliated to the Iraqi 17/06/2008 Naqeeb while he was leaving his house in al-Ziraie neighborhood, 50 M Hameed had received death al-Naqeeb Media Network northern Mosul. He was on his way to the TV station, threats from militants claiming to be members of Al Qaida in Iraq before he was killed.

18 Around mid-July, a list of 16 journalists and writers, including Souran ‘Omar, Souran Mama Journalist working for Lafeen, a Gunmen shot him dead in the Kurdish Rasheedwa neighbourhood Hama, was circulated within the political magazine published in the of the northern oil city of Kirkuk. Unknown armed men opened fire as Kurdistan region of Iraq and 297 Soran Mamah Hammah 21/07/2008 23 M Kurdish language from the northern he was stepping out of his home Monday. He was killed by four men which threatened those named city of Sulaimaniyah who later escaped in a BMW car. with death. All the journalists and writers mentioned on the list are known to have been critical of the PUK and the KDP. The Al-Sharqiya TV crew was kidnapped by gunmen at midday Journalist Al-Sharqiya TV, Mosul 298 Musab al-Azawi 13/09/2008 while filming in the central Mosul neighbourhood of Al-Zenjili. Their M bureau chief bullet-riddled bodies were found in a nearby district later yesterday. The Al-Sharqiya TV crew was kidnapped by gunmen at midday 299 Ahmed Salem Cameraman Al-Sharqiya TV 13/09/2008 while filming in the central Mosul neighbourhood of Al-Zenjili. Their M bullet-riddled bodies were found in a nearby district later yesterday. The Al-Sharqiya TV crew was kidnapped by gunmen at midday 300 Ihab Maad Cameraman Al-Sharqiya TV 13/09/2008 while filming in the central Mosul neighbourhood of Al-Zenjili. Their M bullet-riddled bodies were found in a nearby district later yesterday. The Al-Sharqiya TV crew was kidnapped by gunmen at midday 301 Qaidar Suleiman Driver Al-Sharqiya TV 13/09/2008 while filming in the central Mosul neighbourhood of Al-Zenjili. Their M bullet-riddled bodies were found in a nearby district later yesterday. journalist Kamal Aziz Khdayir killed by roadside bomb, Camp 302 Kamal Aziz Khdayir Journalist 15/09/2008 M Sarah; 3 bodies found [source: IBC] Ahmed, in his twenties, was Iraqi reporter Dyar Abas Ahmed was shot by unidentified gunmen in walking in a street in the center correspondent with the Kirkuk. of Kirkuk with a friend on Friday 303 Dyar Abas Ahmed independent online news site Eye 10/10/2008 Ahmed, a correspondent with the independent online news site Eye 28 M evening when he was attacked. Iraq Iraq, was killed in Kirkuk, 137 miles (220 kilometers) north of Ahmed was shot six times in Baghdad, according to Kirkuk Police. the head and chest and declared dead at the scene.

tribal leaders and Kurdish officials, other restaurant customers and 304 Kanaan Guzal TV presenter 11/12/2008 a TV presenter killed by a suicide bomber in Abdullah Restaurtant, M

between Kirkuk and Arbil [source: IBC]

journalilst and Sunni election journalist and Sunni election candidate gunned down in Al-Najafi 305 Muwaffaq Al Hamadani 31/12/2008 M

candidate Street, Bab al-Tob, central Mosul [source: IBC]

The journalist, Sallam Arab al-Dawsaki, who works for al-Hadbaa journalist who works for al-Hadbaa newspaper, published in Mosul, was shot down by a policeman in 306 Sallam Arab al-Dawsaki 2/02/2009 M newspaper front of his house in Wadi Hajar, southern Mosul,” the source told

Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

A Baghdad official says an Iraqi sports editor has died of shrapnel Al-Lami says the journalist wounds suffered in a roadside bombing more than two months ago. worked for the privately owned Iraqi sports editor of the privately 307 Majid al-Sakr 3/02/2009 Majid al-Sakr had been in a coma since the November 28 attack in 51 M daily Al-Bayana and that he is owned daily Al-Bayana Baghdad. The head of the Iraqi Journalists' Union, Mouyyad al-Lami, survived by a wife and five

says the 51-year-old journalist died on Tuesday in a hospital. children. 19 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 308 Suhaib Adnan Al-Bagdadiya correspondent 10/03/2009 Baghdad. Two journalists for the Cairo-based independent TV station M al-Baghdadiya were among the dead, and four al-Iraqiya journalists

were wounded

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 309 Haider Hashim Suhail Al-Bagdadiya cameraman 10/03/2009 Baghdad. Two journalists for the Cairo-based independent TV station M al-Baghdadiya were among the dead, and four al-Iraqiya journalists

were wounded

An administrator working for the local newspaper Sawt al-Iraq car of Editor-in-Chief of Sawt (Voice of Iraq) was killed and another was injured in an armed attack al-Iraq Abdul Jabar Wahid, administrator for local newspaper 310 Ihsan Zaboun Hayal 14/05/2009 in central Baghdad. Unknown gunmen opened fire on Ihsan Zaboun M driver Ihsan Zaboun Hayal Sawt al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq) Hayal and Abu Haydar, two employees in the Sawt al-Iraq killed in Al-Nedhal Street,

newspaper, killing the first and seriously wounding the other. central Baghdad [Source: IBC]

In a similar but unrelated attack the same day, two staffers from the state-run Al- Iraqiya television station were An adhesive explosive device was placed in the car of the sports badly wounded when a bomb sports reporter for Al-Baghdadiya journalist, when he was with his colleague Dr. Sultan Gorges at the attached to their car exploded 311 Alaa Abdul-Wahab satellite channel and managing editor 30/05/2009 cultural group district to the east of Mosul, exploded when they 37 M in the Al-A'zamiya district in of Nineveh newspaper boarded the car, which have resulted with the death of the journalist Baghdad. One of the wounded

Sultan Gorges with wounds. staffers was identified as sound engineer Hameed Yousif, while the second staffer's identity has

not been revealed. Orhan Hijran, a cameraman for the Al-Rasheed television channel, cameraman for the Al-Rasheed was killed and Mohammed Abdallah Zadeh, with the Al-Baghdadia 312 Orhan Hijran 21/10/2009 M television channel channel, was wounded at around 3:00 pm (1200 GMT) by a roadside

bomb in Kirkuk

Safaa Abdulzahra was kidnapped by gunmen on Tuesday (Dec. 22) worker at al-Furat satellite channel 313 Safaa Abdulzahra 23/12/2009 evening. The corpse, which bore signs of gunshot wounds, was found M in Basra in al-Kafaat neighborhood, downtown Basra.

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

Hamra hotels U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad, killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband.The incident took place late 315 Aseel al-Obeidi Iraqi Journalist 10/03/2010 Wednesday in the Tobchi neighborhood. U.S. troops open fire on F Aseel al-Obeidi and her husband's car but gave no further details.

20 Zardasht Osman, 23, was University student who freelanced killed because of his scathing A Kurdish journalist was kidnapped in Erbil, the capital of the for a number of publications and articles about the region’s two 316 Zardasht Osman 6/05/2010 semiautonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, tortured and then found 23 M often wrote on the Internet under a governing parties and its

dead with two bullets in the head on a highway pseudonym. leaders, including the dominant

Barzani family. Unknown gunmen killed on Wednesday evening (May 12) Maher Al-Mosuliya satellite channel 317 Maher Mohammad Saeed 12/05/2010 Mohammad Saeed, al-Mosuliya channel’s employee, near his house in M employee

al-Zahraa neighborhood in eastern Mosul. A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside Al Arabiya Television Channel the Baghdad bureau of Al Arabiya television channel, killing at least 318 Security guard 26/07/2010 M four people, injuring another 10 and destroying their offices.

A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside 319 Security guard Al Arabiya Television Channel 26/07/2010 the Baghdad bureau of Al Arabiya television channel, killing at least M

four people, injuring another 10 and destroying their offices.

A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside 320 Security guard Al Arabiya Television Channel 26/07/2010 the Baghdad bureau of Al Arabiya television channel, killing at least M

four people, injuring another 10 and destroying their offices.

A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside 321 Cleaning lady Al Arabiya Television Channel 26/07/2010 the Baghdad bureau of Al Arabiya television channel, killing at least F

four people, injuring another 10 and destroying their offices.

He was very outspoken Kidnapped in Baghdad on 14 Aug 2010, 4 pm. A few weeks ago he against the occupation. He was received a letter threatening him and contained a bullet. His tortured the editor of Al Mustaqila 322 Kamal Qasim Al Hiti Editor of Al Mustaqila newspaper 22/08/2010 body was found in the Tigris river opposite the Green Zone in Karad M newspaper which was raided district (under control of the Islamic Supreme Council - Badr Brigade). and eventually banned for His face was partially burned, and he was tortured and hanged. criticizing the occupation and its militias.

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. 323 Riad al-Saray Al Iraqiya TV presenter 7/09/2010 35 M 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.

Mr Hameed, a father of six, was shot from a speeding car, police 324 Safah Abdul Hameed Al Mosuliya TV presenter 8/09/2010 said. He had worked at al-Mosuliya television channel for a year, his M

colleagues said.

21 killed Monday when a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to his car cameraman for the al-Hurra 325 Tahrir Kadhim Jawad 4/10/2010 detonated in the town of Garma, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of the M satellite channel

capital, police in nearby Fallujah said.

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 326 Mazen Mardan al-Baghdadi reporter for Al-Mosuliya television 21/11/2010 18 M intelligence and wanted to speak to his son. Al-Baghdadi's father

summoned his son, and when he arrived home, the men opened fire

Gunmen using silenced weapons killed Natiq al-Jibouri, a journalist, 327 Natiq al-Jibouri journalist 4/12/2010 in the Mansour district of west-central Baghdad, an interior ministry M

source said.

killed on Sunday in a car bombing in central Ramadi, al-Anbar province. His brother, a fellow staffer at the station, was injured in 328 Omar Rasim Al-Qaysi Anchor working for Anbar TV 12/12/2010 M the attack. Security forces then detained a journalist for the daily Al-

Anbar, preventing him from covering the explosion'

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

[source: Iraq Bodycount] father of four children, Ahmadi was dismissed two weeks ago as head of the Ninawa provincial government’s Ahmadi was leaving his home in the eastern suburb of Mithaq in worked for two local weeklies, the communication and media 330 Hilal Al-Ahmadi 17/02/2011 order to go to work when men in car opened fire with a submachine- 50 M Mosul Echo and Iraqiyoun department. Colleagues said his gun and then took off. He was hit several times and died on the spot. newspaper articles drew attention to corruption and the lack of social services in the region. the death of journalist Riad al-Rubaie in the middle of a peaceful 331 Riad Al Rubaie Journalist 20/02/2011 demonstration of youth on 20 February, at Tahrir Square after being M severely beaten by the police under the eyes of his fellow protesters.

journalist and poet reporting for An Iraqi journalist reporting for the satellite television station al- 332 Mohammad Al-Hamadani the satellite television station al- 24/02/2011 Ittijah, whose name remains unknown, was among those killed M

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

Armed terrorists shot dead Faisal Omar , a reporter working for al- TV journalist for al-Mowselya 333 Faisal Omar 1/03/2011 Mowselya satellite channel in al – Refae in neighborhood in western M satellite channel

Mosul

22 Al-Bazi was covering a provincial council meeting when the killed when gunmen wearing assailants--using car bombs, explosive vests, and grenades--mounted military uniforms seized control Correspondent for Al-Arabiya and an assault on the government building in Tikrit, capital of Saleheddin of a provincial government 334 Sabah al-Bazi contributor to Reuters, CNN, and 29/03/2011 30 M province. Death toll: more than 50, with dozens injured. The building in Tikrit. A number of other international news outlets cameraman of al-Fayhaa channel, Saad Khaled, was wounded in the provincial council members

same incident were taken hostage.

The Journalistic Freedom Observatory (JFO) mourned on The al-Ain media agency Wednesday two journalists, who were killed yesterday in the attack informed the JFO that its Muaamar Khudier 335 Reporter for al-Ain media agency 29/03/2011 made by gunmen on Salah al-Din council. One of the suicide bombers M reporter, Muaamar Khudier Abdulwahed entered the reporters’ room in the Salah al-Din council and blew Abdulwahed, was killed in the

himself up same incident.

killed when gunmen wearing military uniforms seized control of a 336 Iman Salah Journalist 29/03/2011 provincial government building in Tikrit. A number of provincial M

council members were taken hostage.

head of satellite television station Gunmen opened fire on the car in which he was travelling in the 337 Taha Al-Alawi 8/04/2011 M

Al-Masar TV Werij district of southern Baghdad.

23 B - JOURNALISTS KILLED NON-IRAQI

Nr Name Nationality Media Date Journalist, went missing in Iraq shortly after the U.S.-led invasion. A Foreign Ministry statement said Nerac died 20/03/20 1 Frederic Nerac M during a gun battle between Iraqi and 03 U.S. soldiers, which took place when he was aboard an Iraqi vehicle. 22/03/20 2 Paul Moran Australian ABC 22.03.2003 - Paul Moran, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 39 M 03 22/03/20 3 Hussein Othman Lebanese ITN 22.03.2003 - Hussein Othman, translator, ITV News M 03 23/03/20 4 Terry Lloyd British ITN 23.03.2003 - Terry Lloyd, ITV News 50 M 03 2/04/200 5 Kaveh Golestan Iranian BBC - news photographer 02.04.2003 - Kaveh Golestan , BBC 52 M 3 4/04/200 6 Michael Kelly American Washington Post 04.04.2003 - Michael Kelly , Washington Post M 3 7/04/200 7 Christian Liebig German Focus 07.04.2003 - Christian Liebig, Focus 35 M 3 7/04/200 8 Julio Anguita Parrado Spanish El Mundo 07.04.2003 - Julio Anguita Parrado, El Mundo 32 M 3 8/04/200 9 Tarek Ayoub Jordanian Al-Jazeera 08.04.2003 - Tarek Ayoub, Al Jazeera M 3 8/04/200 10 Taras Protsyuk Ukrainian Reuters 08.04.2003 - Taras Protsyuk, Reuters 35 M 3 8/04/200 11 José Couso Spanish Telecinco 08.04.2003 - José Couso, Tele 5 37 M 3 British freelance television 12 5/07/200 Richard Wild cameraman, shot dead at point blank 24 M 3 range in central Baghdad street. 7/07/200 13 Jeremy Little American NBC - Sound engineer 07.07.2003 - Jeremy Little, sound engineer, NBC M 3 17/08/20 14 Mazen Dana Palestinian Reuters 17.08.2003 - Mazen Dana, Reuters 43 M 03 7/05/200 15 Waldemar Milewicz Polish TVP 07.05.2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, TVP 48 M 4 7/05/200 16 Mounir Bouamrane Algerian TVP 07.05.2004 - Mounir Bouamrane, TVP 36 M 4 27/05/20 17 Kotaro Ogawa Japanese Freelance 27.05.2004 - Kotaro Ogawa, Nikkan Gendai 33 M 04 27/05/20 18 Shinsuke Hashida Japanese Freelance 27.05.2004 - Shinsuke Hashida, Nikkan Gendai 61 M 04 26/08/20 19 Enzo Baldoni Italian Diario della Settimana 26.08.2004 - Enzo Baldoni, Diario della settimana 56 M 04 24 Palestinian journalist Mazen al-Tomaizi, who worked for the pan-Arab TV news station Al-Arabiya and the Saudi TV station Al-Ekhbariya, was 12/09/20 12.09.2004 - Mazen al- 20 Mazen al-ToMayzi Palestinian Al-Arabiya reporting live on Al-Ekhbariya at the scene of a burning Bradley fighting M 04 Tomaizi, Al-Arabiya vehicle on 12 September 2004 in Baghdad when he was hit by the impact of a missile fired from a US helicopter.

2/08/200 21 Steven Vincent American Freelance 02.08.2005 - Steven Vincent, freelance journalist 49 M 5

Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42. were among four 29/05/20 22 James Brolan people killed when a car bomb hit a 42 M 06 U.S. military patrol in Baghdad on Monday Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42. were among four people killed when a car bomb hit a 29/05/20 23 Paul Douglas 48 M U.S. military patrol in Baghdad on 06 Monday

news photographer of PhotoXPress Dmitry Chebotaryov had been killed in 6/05/200 24 Dmitry Chebotaryov the province of Diyala on Sunday, 29 M 7 when a U.S. car convoy hit a ground bomb.

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C- JOURNALISTS WHO DIED OF NON-VIOLENT CAUSES correspondent for Channel 4 News, 1 Britain, died after apparently falling 30/03/2003 Gaby Rado 48 M from a hotel roof in northern Iraq.

Reporter of NBC News died from an 2 apparent blood clot while covering the 6/04/200 David Bloom 39 M war south of Baghdad. 3

Argentine freelance camerawoman, died of injuries from a car crash 3 8/04/200 Veronica Cabrera outside the Iraqi capital, which 29 F 3 instantly killed Mario Podesta, an Argentine television reporter

Argentine freelance journalist, died in a car crash near Baghdad. Podesta was travelling in a convoy of press 14/04/20 4 Mario Podesta 51 M vehicles some 80 kilometres (50 miles) 03 from Baghdad when the accident happened. a reporter for The Boston Globe, died after the car in which she was a passenger apparently struck a 8/05/200 5 Elizabeth Neuffer guardrail near the town of Samarra, 46 F about halfway between Baghdad and 3 Tikrit.

Los Angeles Times correspondent had won or shared a number of journalism honors, including a for 17 years, died of a heart attack on 23/09/20 George Polk Award, a National Headliner Award and an Overseas 6 Mark Fineman Sept. 23 while waiting to interview a 51 M 03 Press Club Award. He had worked for newspapers in Chicago and member of the Iraqi Governing Council Philadelphia before joining the Times. in Baghdad.

26 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 Media Professionals of non-Iraqi Nationality who died 24 6 Professionals, killed in Iraq in Iraq of non violent causes

Total Media professionals 361 killed in the Iraq war: MALE 334 Total Media professionals 367 FEMALE 33 who died in the Iraq war:

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 27

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