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New York, April 25, 2005—An Iraqi cameraman working for Associated Press Television News was killed on Saturday while covering fighting in the Iraqi city of Mosul, bringing to 41 the number of journalists killed in Iraq since March 2003. Saleh Ibrahim was killed by gunfire near the city’s al-Yarmouk Circle, the scene of an earlier…
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APRIL 23, 2005 Posted: April 25, 2005 Saleh Ibrahim, APTN KILLED—CONFIRMED Ibrahim was killed by gunfire near the city’s al-Yarmouk Circle, the scene of an earlier explosion that he and his brother-in-law, AP photographer Mohamed Ibrahim, had gone to cover, according to The Associated Press. The AP said Mohamed Ibrahim suffered shrapnel wounds to the…
Captors threaten to kill Romanian journalists
April 22, 2005, New York—The captors of three Romanian journalists and a translator threatened to kill their prisoners within four days unless Romania withdraws its troops from Iraq, according to a videotape that was broadcast today on the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera. The video, which aired without sound, showed reporter Ovidiu Ohanesian, of the daily…
Captors threaten to kill Romanian journalists
April 22, 2005, New York—The captors of three Romanian journalists and a translator threatened to kill their prisoners within four days unless Romania withdraws its troops from Iraq, according to a videotape that was broadcast today on the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera. The video, which aired without sound, showed reporter Ovidiu Ohanesian, of the daily…
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APRIL 15, 2005 Updated September 29, 2005 Saman Abdullah Izzedine, Kirkuk TV KILLED—CONFIRMED Unidentified assailants gunned down Izzedine, a 33-year-old news anchor for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)-backed Kirkuk TV as he was driving on the main highway from Kirkuk to Baghdad. Kurdish journalists in Kirkuk said that Izzedine’s car was fired on by…
Two Iraqi journalists killed in Baghdad bombings
New York, April 15, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists mourns the deaths of two Al-Hurriya television journalists who were killed in suicide bombings while on their way to an assignment in Baghdad yesterday morning. The station’s Baghdad director, Nawrooz Mohamed, told CPJ today that producer Fadhil Hazem Fadhil and cameraman Ali Ibrahim Issa were killed…
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APRIL 14, 2005 Posted: April 18, 2005 Fadhil Hazem Fadhil, Al-Hurriya Ali Ibrahim Issa, Al-Hurriya KILLED—CONFIRMED The two Al-Hurriya television journalists were killed in twin suicide bombings while on their way to an assignment. The station’s Baghdad director, Nawrooz Mohamed, told CPJ that producer Fadhil and cameraman Issa were en route to an event honoring…
In Mosul, Iraqi freelancer wounded by U.S. fire
New York, April 6, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by an incident yesterday in which an Iraqi freelance journalist working for CBS News was wounded by U.S. fire in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Troops from the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, mistook the journalist’s camera for a weapon, the U.S.-led…
Al-Arabiya cameraman detained for more than a week
New York, April 6, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists said today that it is alarmed by the more than weeklong detention in Iraq of a journalist working for the Dubai-based satellite news channel Al-Arabiya. Iraqi forces detained Wael Issam, a Palestinian cameraman on assignment for the station, at Baghdad International Airport on March 28, according…
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APRIL 5, 2005 Posted: April 7, 2005 Unidentified journalist, CBS News ATTACKED An Iraqi freelance journalist working for CBS News was wounded by U.S. fire in the northern city of Mosul. Troops from the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, mistook the journalist’s camera for a weapon, the U.S.-led Multi-National Forces in Iraq said in a…