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Title: The war in Iraq : the most deadly one for the media since Vietnam
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Reporters Without Borders
URL Source: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=13652
Published: May 3, 2005
Author: Reporters Without Borders
Post Date: 2005-08-28 11:33:43 by robin
Keywords: Vietnam, deadly, media
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Iraq3 May 2005 The Iraq conflict is the deadliest inter-state war for journalists since the one in Vietnam, when 63 were killed, but over a period of 20 years (1955-75). During the fighting in the former Yugoslavia (1991-95), 49 journalists were killed doing their job. 57 journalists and 20 media assistants were killed in Algeria between 1993 and 1996 but this was during an internal (civil) war. The media was targeted from the first day of the fighting in Iraq, when cameraman Paul Moran, of the Australian TV network ABC, was killed by a car bomb on 22 March 2003. Eleven journalists and media assistants were killed in March and April that year. The situation then gradually improved until early the following year, when bomb blasts and attacks by armed groups increased throughout the country, with nine killed in May 2004. Almost every month since then, one or two journalists have been killed, nine of them so far this year. This report highlights these journalists, who were murdered for simply doing their job. What media outlets did they work for and what were the circumstances of their death ? It also gives an update on those who have been kidnapped (more than in any other war), who include nationals of many countries, some of which are not involved in the fighting. Reporters Without Borders defends imprisoned journalists and press freedom throughout the world, as well as the right to inform the public and to be informed, in accordance with Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Reporters Without Borders has nine national sections (in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom), representatives in Abidjan, Bangkok, Istanbul, Montreal, Moscow, New York, Tokyo and Washington and more than a hundred correspondents worldwide. Poster Comment: 65 journalists and media assistants killed since the start of fighting in Iraq in March 2003, two still missing 65 have been killed since March 2003 while doing their job. Two other journalists are still missing :
The war in Iraq : the most deadly one for the media since Vietnam
56 journalists and media assistants killed, 29 kidnapped
Iraq is the world's most dangerous country for journalists and the place where the most are kidnapped. 56 journalists and media assistants have been killed there since the fighting began on 22 March 2003 and 29 kidnapped. 
Frédéric Nérac
of ITV News (UK), since 22 March 2003
Isam Hadi Muhsin Al-Shumary
Suedostmedia, 15 August 2004
48 Journalists killed 
02.08.05 - Steven Vincent, freelance journalist 22.06.2005 - Yasser Al Salihy, Knight Ridder 03.07.2005 - Maha Ibrahim, Baghdad TV 01.07.2005 - Khaled Sabih al Attar, al-Iraqia 28.06.2005 - Wael Al Bakri, Al Charkiyah 22.06.05 - Jassim Al Qais, Al Siyada 15.05.2005 - Najem Abed Khodair, Al-Madaa and Tariq al-Shaab 15.05.2005 - Ahmad Adam, Al-Madaa and Sabah 23.04.2005 - Saleh Ibrahim, Associated Press 15.04.2005 - Shamal Abdallah Assad, Kirkuk TV, Kurdsat 14.04.2005 - Ali Abrahim Aissa, Al-Hurriya TV 14.04.2005 - Fadel Hazem Fadel, Al-Hurriya TV 01.04.2005 - Ahmed Jabbar Hashim, Al Sabah 14.03.2005 - Houssam Hilal Sarsam, Kurdistan-TV 10.03.2005 - Laik Ibrahim, Kurdistan-TV 25.02.2005 - Raeda Mohammed Wageh Wazzan, Iraqiya 09.02.2005 - Abdel Hussein Khazaal, Al-Hurra TV 01.11.2004 - Dhia Najim, Reuters 27.10.2004 - Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, Al-Sharqiya 14.10.2004 - Karam Hussein, European Pressphoto Agency 14.10.2004 - Dina Mohamad Hassan, Al Hurriya Television 7.10.2004 - Ahmad Jassem, Nivive television 12.09.2004 - Mazen al-Tomaizi, Al-Arabiya 26.08.2004 - Enzo Baldoni, Diario della settimana 15.08.2004 - Mahmoud Hamid Abbas, ZDF 15.08.2004 - Hossam Ali, freelance 03.06.2004 - Sahar Saad Eddine Nouami, Al-Mizan, Al-Khaima, Al-Hayat Al-Gadida 27.05.2004 - Kotaro Ogawa, Nikkan Gendai 27.05.2004 - Shinsuke Hashida, Nikkan Gendai 07.05.2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, TVP 07.05.2004 - Mounir Bouamrane, TVP 19.04.2004 - Assad Kadhim, Al-Iraqiya TV 26.03.2004 - Bourhan Mohammad al-Louhaybi, ABC News 18.03.2004 - Ali Al-Khatib, Al-Arabiya 18.03.2004 - Ali Abdel Aziz, Al-Arabiya 18.03.2004 - Nadia Nasrat, Diyala Television 28.10.2003 - Ahmed Shawkat, Bila Ittijah 17.08.2003 - Mazen Dana, Reuters 02.07.2003 - Ahmad Karim, Kurdistan Satellite TV 08.04.2003 - José Couso, Tele 5 08.04.2003 - Taras Protsyuk, Reuters 08.04.2003 - Tarek Ayoub, Al Jazeera 07.04.2003 - Christian Liebig, Focus 07.04.2003 - Julio Anguita Parrado, El Mundo 04.04.2003 - Michael Kelly, Washington Post 02.04.2003 - Kaveh Golestan, BBC 23.03.2003 - Terry Lloyd, ITV News 22.03.2003 - Paul Moran, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 17 Media assistants killed 23.07.2005 - Adnan Al Bayati, Rai, Mediaset, TG3 and Panorama 02.09.2004 - Ismaïl Taher Mohsin, Associated Press 25.08.2004 - Jamal Tawfiq Salmane, Gazeta Wyborcza 29.05.2004 - Mahmoud Ismael Daood, bodyguard, Al-Sabah al-Jadid 29.05.2004 - Samia Abdeljabar, driver, Al-Sabah al-Jadid 27.05.2004 - Unknown, translator 25.05.2004 - Unknown, translator 21.05.2004 - Rachid Hamid Wali, cameraman assistant, Al-Jazira 29.04.2004 - Hussein Saleh, driver, Al-Iraquiya TV 26.03.2004 - Omar Hashim Kamal, translator, Time 18.03.2004 - Majid Rachid, technician, Diyala Television 18.03.2004 - Mohamad Ahmad, security agent, Diyala Television 27.01.2004 - Duraid Isa Mohammed, producer and translator, CNN 27.01.2004 - Yasser Khatab, driver, CNN 07.07.2003 - Jeremy Little, sound engineer, NBC 06.04.2003 - Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, translator, BBC 22.03.2003 - Hussein Othman, translator, ITV News
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#1. To: All, Red Jones, Zipporah, Eoghan, christine, Jethro Tull, lodwick, Mr Nuke Buzzcut, Dude Lebowski, crack monkey, Flintlock, Dakmar, justlurking, Diana, wbales, Bayonne, swarthyguy, aristeides, Grumble Jones, Soda Pop, alpowolf, siagiah, Lady X (#0)
ping to a website with the info on this particular list of collateral damage.
"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't." - Mark Twain - Victory and Energy cartoon animations.
And the mess gets messier. But Bush says stay the course? To where? His "broader" Middle East? Such hubris. No wonder we're hated
I just saw Bush on TV talking about the Iraqi draft constitution. Or, with Bush having a flashback to his draft-dodging days in the Sixties and reacting like Maynard G. Krebs did to WORK??!!, the Iraqi DRAFT??!! constitution.
huh? did he mean the constitution draft and reversed the words??
If you fall on the side that is pro-George and pro-war, you get your ass over to Iraq, and take the place of somebody who wants to come home.
#2. To: robin (#1)
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
I've already said too much.
#4. To: MUDDOG (#3)
Iraqi draft constitution.
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