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CHRONOLOGY-Journalists killed in Iraq
04 Dec 2006 13:32:19 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

Dec 4 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead on Monday an Iraqi journalist working for a local radio station, an official at Dijla station said.

Since the start of the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion, more than 100 reporters and media assistants, such as drivers and translators, have been killed in Iraq, most of them Iraqis.

Following is a chronology of those reported killed in 2006:

-- Jan. 24, 2006 - Mahmoud Za'al, who worked for Baghdad TV, is killed while filming an attack by U.S. forces in Ramadi.

-- Feb. 22 - Gunmen kill Atwar Bahjat, a correspondent for Al Arabiya television, her cameraman, Khaled Al Falahi, and her soundman, Adnan Khairallah, as they filmed in Samarra.

-- March 7 - Munsuf Abdallahal-Khaldi, a presenter with Baghdad TV, is shot dead as he was driving from the Iraqi capital to interview poets in the northern city of Mosul.

-- March 11 - Gunmen kill Amjad Hameed, a senior editor for Iraqiya television, in central Baghdad. The military wing of the Mujahideen Council claims responsibility.

-- March 13 - Muhsin Khudhair, editor of news magazine Alef Ba, is gunned down in Baghdad.

-- May 29 - Cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan, two British members of a CBS news crew are killed in a bomb attack on a U.S. military patrol in Baghdad. U.S. correspondent Kimberly Dozier is in critical condition.

-- May 31 - Gunmen kill Ali Jaafar, a sports anchorman for Iraqiya television station, in Baghdad.

-- July 30 - Riyad Muhammad Ali, a reporter for the local weekly Tal Afar al-Yawm, is shot dead in Mosul.

-- Aug 1 - Adel al-Mansouri, a correspondent for al-Alam television station, an Iranian Arabic channel, is found dead in Baghdad. His body bore bullet wounds.

-- Aug 7 - Mohammad Abbas Mohammad, editor for the Shiite-owned newspaper Al-Bayinnah Al-Jadida, is shot as he was leaving his home in the Adil section of western Baghdad.

-- Aug 7 - The body of freelance journalist Ismail Amin Ali is discovered in Sadr city in Baghdad.

-- Sept 12 - Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri, a journalist and representative of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate for the eastern province of Diyala, is killed north of Baghdad.

-- Sept 13 - Iraqi police report they have found the body of Safaa Ismail Inad, a journalist at al-Watan newspaper, near Sadr city in eastern Baghdad.

-- Sept 18 - In Ramadi, gunmen kill Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbuli who worked for Baghdad TV, a satellite channel owned by the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party.

-- Nov 3 - Police in Baghdad find the body of freelance journalist Abdul Majeed Ismael Khalil. He was abducted in eastern Baghdad on Oct. 18.

-- Nov 3 - Television journalist Ahmed Rasheed is killed in the Sunni district of Adamiya in Baghdad

-- Nov 13 - Gunmen in Mosul kill Mohammed al-Ban, a cameraman for the TV station al-Sharqiya who also worked for local newspaper Al Masar.

-- Nov 15 - Gunmen kill journalist Fadia Mohammed Ali and her driver on her way to the Al Masar newspaper in Mosul.

-- Dec 4 - Gunmen shoot dead Iraqi journalist Nabil al Dulaimi working for a local radio station, Sources: Reuters, RSF: www.rsf.org/, CPJ: www.cpj.org


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