July 22 (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi journalist working for a Kurdish magazine in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police and the publication said on Tuesday. Iraq is the most dangerous place in the world for journalists, according to New York-based watchdog the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), with around 130 reporters and 50 assistants killed since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Following is a chronology of those reported killed recently: Sept 20 - Muhannad Ghanem Ahmed, of radio Dar Al Salam, is killed in the northern city of Mosul. Sept 23 - Gunmen kill Jawad al-Daami, a journalist for Baghdadiya television, in al-Qadissiya district of southwestern Baghdad. Oct 14 - Salih Saif Aldin, a Washington Post correspondent in Iraq, is killed in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Saidiya. Oct 27 - Shehab Mohammed al-Hiti, a Sunni Arab editor of the al-Youm newspaper, is killed after leaving his home in western Baghdad. 2008: Jan 30 - Aala Abdul-Kareem, a cameraman with al-Furat channel, is killed by a roadside bomb attack north of Baghdad. Feb 27 - Shihab al-Tamimi, an independent journalist working for many local newspapers and head of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate, dies four days after being seriously wounded in an attack on his car. April 25 - Jassem al-Battat is shot dead in Al-Qorna, north of Basra. Battat worked for Al-Nakhil, a radio and TV group owned by the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, a powerful pro-government Shi'ite political party. May 4 - Gunmen shoot dead Sarwa Abdul-Wahab, an Iraqi female reporter, after hauling her out of a taxi in Iraq's northern city of Mosul. May 21 - Wisam Ali Ouda, a cameraman for Afaq television channel, is shot dead in eastern Baghdad's Obaidi district. Colleagues blame U.S. troops for his death, but the U.S. military denies involvement. -- Haidar Hashim al-Husseini, a reporter for al-Sharq newspaper, is kidnapped outside his home in Diyala province on May 20. His body, bound hand and foot and with a single bullet wound to the head, is found dumped in a field the next day. June 17 - Gunmen kill Mohieldin Abdul-Hameed in Mosul, he was a presenter for Nineveh's local state-run TV station. July 21 - Soran Mamahama, a journalist working for a Kurdish magazine, is killed in Kirkuk.
REFILE - CORRECTING BYLINE U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama drinks tea during his visit to the governor's headquarters in Anbar province July 22, 2008. Obama travelled to Iraq's Anbar on ...
