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CHRONOLOGY-Journalists killed in Iraq
15 Nov 2006 11:08:08 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

Nov 15 (Reuters) - A reporter for a local newspaper in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was killed along with her driver on Wednesday, police said, just days after the killing of another journalist who worked for the same paper.

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 from the attack.

-- 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 with 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.

Sources: Reuters, RSF: www.rsf.org/, CPJ: www.cpj.org


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