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Comment by Doug Wilson on August 17, 2009 at 11:31am

Journalists killed or missing in Iraq


ASSOCIATED PRESS

KILLED

Steven Vincent, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal correspondent

* American journalist found dead in Basra

Steven Vincent, whose work has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and his female Iraqi translator were abducted at gunpoint by five men Tuesday evening as they left a currency exchange shop, police Lt. Col. Karim al-Zaidi said.

Vincent's body was discovered on the side of the highway south of Basra later. He had been shot in the head and multiple times in the body, al-Zaidi said.

Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, al-Sharqiya television, of Iraq

* Popular TV presenter killed in Iraq

Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, a popular presenter who had worked for Iraqi state television before the war, was killed by gunmen Oct. 27, 2004 on her way home from work at al-Sharqiya television in Baghdad.

Abdul-Razzaq, mother of a 6-year-old boy and a month-old baby girl, was killed only two months after her husband was murdered. The motive for the killings was not clear.

Karam Hussein, 22, European Pressphoto Agency photographer, of Iraq

Hussein was gunned down Oct. 15, 2004 by four unidentified assailants while leaving his home in Mosul. Before working for Pressphoto, Hussein contributed photographs to the Associated Press.

Dina Hassan, al-Hurriya television correspondent, of Iraq

* Iraqi TV journalist killed in drive-by shooting

Dina Mohamad Hassan, an Iraqi journalist, was gunned down Oct. 14, 2004 in the Baghdad neighborhood of Al-Adhamiya. She worked for Al-Hurriya, a TV station run by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) which is headed by a Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani.

Mazen Tomeizi, 26, Al Arabiya TV producer, of Palestine

* U.S. army defends helicopter attack in Baghdad

Witnesses said Tomeizi was killed Sept. 12, 2004 when a U.S. helicopter fired into a crowd of Iraqis cheering around a military vehicle torched during fighting in Haifa street, an area widely known as a stronghold for anti-U.S. insurgents. Reuters cameraman Seif Fouad was wounded in one of the subsequent rocket strikes.

Enzo Baldoni, 56, freelance journalist, of Italy

* Berlusconi condemns reported killing of Italian hostage in Iraq
* Italian journalist held hostage is killed Al-Jazeera says

Baldoni, 56, a part-time journalist whose main job was as an advertising copy writer, went to Iraq for the news magazine Diario. Arab television reported Aug. 26 it received video footage of Baldoni being killed by militants but did not broadcast tape because of gruesome content.

Hussein Osman, translator, of Lebanon

* DNA tests confirm that missing Lebanese translator was killed in firefight early in Iraq invasion

Translator Hussein Osman of Lebanon, had been missing since the shooting incident March 22 in southern Iraq in which Terry Lloyd was killed. DNA tests carried out by British military investigators indicate that remains found at the site of the gunbattle were those of Osman.

Shinsuke Hashida, 61, freelance journalist, of Japan
Hashida, his nephew Kotaro Ogawa, 33, and their Iraqi interpreter were killed May 27 in an attack on the road between Mahmoudiya and Latifiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad. Hashida, an experienced war correspondent, had intended to bring back to Japan an Iraqi boy who suffered injuries to his eyes in an attack.

Kotaro Ogawa, 33, freelance journalist, of Japan
Ogawa and his uncle had just left the Japanese military base in the town of Samawa, south of Baghdad, and were heading towards the capital when their vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by an armed group. The vehicle caught fired and exploded. Only the driver, who was injured, managed to get out in time.

Rashid Hamid Wali, 38, Al-Jazeera television

* Jazeera newsman killed in clashes in Iraq

Wali, assistant cameraman and fixer for the Qatar-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera, was killed by gunfire May 20 in the Iraqi city of Karbala. The father of six was filming fighting in the southern city of Karbala where U.S. forces are battling to put down a weeks-old rebellion by militiamen loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

Waldemar Milewicz, 47, TVP television correspondent, of Poland

* Leading Polish journalist shot dead in Iraq

Gunmen ambushed the Polish TV crew on May 7 south of Baghdad, killing Milewicz – Poland's best-known war reporter – and Mounir Bouamrane, TVP television producer, 36, a dual Algerian-Polish national. It was only the third day in Iraq for the Polish crew.

Asaad Kadhim, U.S.-funded TV station Al-Iraqiya correspondent, of Iraq
Kadhim, a correspondent for the U.S.-funded Al-Iraqiya TV, and his driver, Hussein Saleh, were killed April 19 by gunfire from U.S. forces near a checkpoint close to the Iraqi city of Samara, about 75 miles northwest of the capital, Baghdad. Cameraman Jassem Kamel was injured in the shooting.

On April 20, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the deputy director of operations for coalition forces in Iraq, confirmed that U.S. troops killed the journalist and his driver. According to media reports, Kimmitt said that coalition forces at the checkpoint warned the journalists' vehicle to stop by firing several warning shots. When the vehicle ignored those shots, Kimmitt said, forces fired at the car.

Burhan Mohammed Mazhour, ABC television cameraman, of Iraq

* Iraqi cameraman working for ABC killed

Mazhour was shot in the head while covering clashes in Falluja and taken to a hospital there, where he died shortly afterwards. Witnesses said U.S. troops fired at him. The U.S. military said it had no information about the incident.

Omar Hashim Kamal, Time magazine translator, of Iraq

* Iraqi working for Time magazine dies after attack

Time magazine said Kamal was shot on March 24 in Baghdad and had been in critical condition at an American military hospital in the Iraqi capital. He died March 26. Kamal is survived by a wife and 4-year-old son.

Ali Abdelaziz, Al Arabiya cameraman, of Iraq
Ali Abdelaziz, a cameraman working for Dubai-based satellite television channel Al Arabiya, was shot and killed by U.S. troops on March 18. A second Iraqi journalist, Ali al-Khatib, dies the next day from wounds sustained in the same incident.

Mohammed Farhan, Majeed Rashid, Nadia Shawkat; employees of Diyala TV, of Iraq
Gunmen open fire on a minibus March 18, killing three Iraqi journalists and wounding nine other employees of a coalition-funded TV station in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.

Safir Nader and Haymin Mohamed Salih, cameramen with Qulan TV;
Abdel Sattar Abdel Karim, freelance photographer for Arabic-language daily Al Ta'akhy;
Ayoub Mohamed and Gharib Mohamed Salih, of Kurdistan TV;
Semko Karim Mohyideen, freelance journalist
Killed on Feb. 1 in twin suicide bombings on offices of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Kurdistan Democratic Party in Irbil.

Duraid Isa Mohammed, CNN translator-producer, of Iraq

* Two CNN employees killed in Iraq

CNN said in a broadcast that the pair was returning from an assignment Jan. 27, 2004 in a two-car convoy that came under attack. A CNN cameraman in the second car was grazed in the head by a bullet but was safe, the network said. It said correspondent Michael Holmes was also in the car along with three other people but none of them were hurt.

The vehicles were traveling toward the Baghdad suburb of Mahmoudiya when a rust-colored Opel came up behind one car. A gunman, standing through the sunroof, opened fire at the convoy with an AK-47, the network said.

The car with Holmes and wounded cameraman Scott McWhinnie escaped as an armed security adviser who was with them returned fire.

Yasser Khatab, CNN driver, of Iraq

Mazen Dana, 43, Reuters cameraman, of Palestine

* Cameraman's death result of U.S. military flaws, report says
* Soldiers' testimony raises questions over U.S. report
* U.S. says troops followed rules in cameraman's death
* Fellow journalists accuse U.S. soldiers of negligence in shooting of cameraman

Mazen Dana, 43, was shot and killed by U.S. soldiers Aug. 17, 2003 while videotaping near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. The U.S. Army said its soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

Jeremy Little, 27, sound engineer for NBC News, of Australia

* Australian soundman dies from Iraq wounds

Little died July 6, at military hospital in Germany from wounds suffered on June 29 in a grenade attack on a military vehicle in Fallujah.

Richard Wild, 24, freelance cameraman, of Britian

* Young British journalist killed in Baghdad yearned to become war correspondent



Tarek Ayyoub, 35, Al-Jazeera producer and correspondent, of Jordan

* Jazeera TV cameraman killed in Baghdad raid



Jose Couso, 37, Tele 5 cameraman, of Spain

* Spanish judge to probe death of Iraq war cameraman
* Spanish cameraman killed in Baghdad hotel blast



Taras Protsyuk, 35, Reuters cameraman, of the Ukraine

* Reuters cameraman dies in Iraq hotel blast



Christian Liebig, 35, Focus magazine, of Germany
Christian Liebig, journalist for Focus weekly, Germany, April 7, south of Baghdad in a friendly fire incident.

Julio Anguita Parrado, 32, El Mundo reporter, of Spain
Julio Anguita Parrado, reporter for El Mundo, Spain, April 7, south of Baghdad in a friendly fire incident.

Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, Kurdish translator for BBC
Killed on April 6 in U.S. aircraft bombing of joint convoy of Kurdish fighters and U.S. Special Forces in northern Iraq.

Michael Kelly, 46, Washington Post columnist

* Atlantic Monthly editor-at-large killed in accident in Iraq

Michael Kelly died April 3 while traveling with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division as it moved across Iraq, according to a statement issued by Atlantic Media. He was the first American journalist to die in the conflict.

Kaveh Golestan, 52, BBC cameraman, of Iran

* BBC journalist killed in northern Iraq

Kaveh Golestan, 52, an Iranian freelance cameraman for the BBC, died instantly April 2 when he stepped on a land mine as he climbed out of his car in the town of Kifrey.

Terry Lloyd, 50, ITV News

* Search shows ITN journalists were attacked from two sides

The British television news network ITN has said it believes its reporter Terry Lloyd was killed March 22 by "friendly fire" from British or American soldiers en route to the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

He was one of a four-man ITV News team came under fire, apparently from coalition forces, outside the city. Iraqi ambulances took a number of dead and injured from the area into the city.

His body is believed to lie in a Basra hospital under Iraqi control.

Lloyd, a seasoned war correspondent who also had covered conflicts in Cambodia and the Balkans, was ITN's longest-serving reporter and was the first ITN correspondent to be killed on assignment in the network's 48-year history, the network said.

"Terry was brave, he was determined and he was safety conscious," said ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis. "He was a lovely guy."

Lloyd was 50, and married with two children.

The whereabouts of Lloyd's colleague, cameraman Fred Nerac, 43, of France, is unknown.

Paul Moran, 39, Australian Broadcasting Corp. cameraman
Paul Moran, 39, was killed March 22 by an apparent car bomb at a checkpoint near a camp of the al-Qaida-linked militant group Ansar al-Islam in northern Iraq. Australian Broadcasting correspondent Eric Campbell suffered minor shrapnel injuries, a network statement said.

Journalists had gone to the checkpoint to interview refugees streaming out of the area that had been attacked. One of the cars coming out with the refugees exploded, according to an account pieced together from witnesses and reporters.

Another civilian and three Peshmergas, or Kurdish soldiers, also were killed. None of their identities were made known immediately.

Moran, who was based in Paris, had worked extensively in the Middle East. He is survived by his wife and baby daughter

MISSING

Fred Nerac, cameraman, 43, of France

* Chirac urges British action over missing cameraman
* Search shows ITN journalists were attacked from two sides

The Foreign Ministry said Frederic Nerac, who works for Britain's Independent Television News, ITN, had been hurt, but it had no information on his condition or current whereabouts.

It was the first information about Nerac since the attack which killed British ITN reporter Terry Lloyd.

The crew had been driving toward the southern city of Basra when they came under fire.

NON-HOSTILE INCIDENT

Mark Fineman, 51, Los Angeles Times correspondent

* L.A. Times correspondent dies of apparent heart attack

Veteran Los Angeles Times correspondent Mark Fineman died Sept. 23 of an apparent heart attack while working in Baghdad. Fineman and fellow Times correspondent Alissa J. Rubin were waiting in the offices of the Iraqi Governing Council for an interview when he complained of chest pains and collapsed. He was rushed to a hospital but doctors could not revive him.

Elizabeth Neuffer, 46, Boston Globe reporter
Elizabeth Neuffer, a reporter for The Boston Globe, died May 8 after the car in which she was a passenger apparently struck a guardrail near the town of Samarra, about halfway between Baghdad and Tikrit. Neuffer's translator, Waleed Khalifa Hassan Al-Dulami, also died in the accident.

Veronica Cabrera, 28, America TV camerawoman, of Argentine

* Argentine camerawoman dies of injuries in Iraq

Veronica Cabrera, an Argentine free-lance camerawoman, died April 15 of injuries from a car crash outside the Iraqi capital on April 14.

Mario Podesta, 52, America TV correspondent, of Argentine

* Argentinian journalist dies in car crash in Iraq

Mario Podesta, an Argentine TV reporter, was instantly killed in a car crash outside the Iraqi capital on April 14.

David Bloom, 39, NBC correspondent

* NBC News correspondent dies of blood clot



Gaby Rado, 48, Channel 4 TV reporter, of Britain
Gaby Rado, a correspondent for Channel 4 News, Britain, died March 30 after apparently falling from a hotel roof in northern Iraq.

Comment by Marklar on August 14, 2009 at 5:23pm

We had a young guy here in the states who was very good and a widely acknowledged rising star (though I can't seem to remember his name or who he worked for). He had every sign of being a prospective journalist superstar if he had been with us longer. Of course he died from "friendly fire" in the first six months of the Iraq war.