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ASSASSINATED IRAQI MEDIA PROFESSIONALS www.brusselstribunal.org/JournalistKilled.htm http://www.brusselstribunal.org/JournalistKilled.htm			ASSASSINATED IRAQI MEDIA PROFESSIONALS
Nr	Name	Profession	Date	Incident
1	Qomran Abdul Razzaq	translator in the BBC	6/04/2003	killed when the American troops bombed a Kurdish convoy in the north of Iraq
2	Unknown interpreter	Iraqi interpreter working for Malaysian journalists	12/04/2003	killed when gunmen ambushed and kidnapped the group in Baghdad.
3	Waleed Khalifa Hassan Al-Dulami	Elisabeth Neuffer's translator	9/05/2003	died in the accident where Elisabeth Neuffer died, near Samarra.
4	Aqeel Mohammad Rasheed Al-Janabi	editor in chief of Al-Faiha newspaper	24/06/2003	killed by knife stabs in his town Hilla
5	Ahmad Kareem	reporter , Kurdistan Satellite Channel	25/08/2003	shot and killed by U.S. forces outside the bureau's office along the Tigris River. Bottom of Form
6	Ahmad Shawkat	editor in Bila-Itijah weekly	28/10/2003	killed by two armed men who raided his house and shot him
7	Doraid Issa Mohamad	translator and producer in CCN	27/01/2004	shot in an ambush in Baghdad outskirts
8	Yassir Khattab	driver with CNN	27/01/2004	shot in an ambush in Baghdad outskirts
9	Abdul Sattar Abdul Kareem	photographer	1/02/2004	killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked
10	Ayoob Mohamad Salih	cameraman, Kurdistan Satellite Channel	1/02/2004	killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked
11	Ghareeb Mohamad Salih	cameraman KSC	1/02/2004	killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked
12	Heiman Mohamad Salih	cameraman in Qulan TV	1/02/2004	killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked
13	Kamiran Mohamad Omar	freelancer	1/02/2004	killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked
14	Mahdi Khashnaw	Nassree, Kurdish newspaper, editor in chief	1/02/2004	killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked
15	Mahdi Saad Abdulla	Thiraeei newspaper editor-in-Chief	1/02/2004	killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked
16	Nassih Saleem	freelancer	1/02/2004	killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked
17	Safeer Nadir	camera man in Qulan TV (KDP),	1/02/2004	killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked
18	Salah Saidak	Itihad editor–in-Chief	1/02/2004	killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked
19	Shawkat Sheikh Yazdeen	publisher	1/02/2004	killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked
20	Simko Kareem Mohiddeen	free Lance cameraman	1/02/2004	killed in Arbeel when the offices of the Kurdistan National Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party were attacked
21	Mahmood Awad Hamadi	Al-Jazeera newspaper editor-in-Chief	2/03/2004	killed by the American troops in Falluja
22	Selwan Abdelghani Medhi al-Niemi	freelance translator working for the U.S.-funded Voice of America	5/03/2004	fatally shot while driving home from a relative's house. His mother and 4-year-old daughter were also killed. VOA said a motive had not been established. Al-Niemi's wife, Ban Adil Serhan, a former translator for the U.S.-based media company Knight-Ridder, told CPJ that she believes she was also an intended target _ and that the assailants mistook al-Niemi's mother for her.
23	Majeed Rasheed	technician in IMN	18/03/2004	shot by armed men in Diyala (Baquba)
24	Mohamad Ahmad Sarhan	Security agent with IMN	18/03/2004	shot by armed men in Diyala (Baquba)
25	Ali Abdul Azziz	cameraman, Al-Arabiya Satellite	18/03/2004	shot by the American troops
26	Ali Al-Khateeb	Al-Arabiya correspondent	18/03/2004	shot by the American troops in Baghdad
27	Nadia Nasrat	announcer in the Iraqi Media Net	18/03/2004	shot by armed men in Diyala (Baquba)
28	Burhan Mohamad Mazhoor	cameraman, ABC	26/03/2004	shot by the American troops in Falluja
29	Omar Hashim Kamil	reporter, Time magazine	26/03/2004	shot by armed men in Baghdad
30	As'ad Kadim	Iraqiya TV reporter	19/04/2004	shot by the American troops In Samarra, with his driver
31	Husein Salih	driver, Al-Iraqiya	19/04/2004	shot by the American troops in Samarra
32	Rasheed Hamid Wali	cameraman in Al-Jazeera news channel	21/05/2004	shot by unknown fire source, in Karbala
33	Unknown	Translator	25/05/2004
34	Muhammad Aldin	interpreter working for Japanese freelance journalists Shinsuke Hashida and Kotaro Ogawa	27/05/2004	killed along with the two journalists when their car was attacked by gunmen in Mahmoudiya, 20 miles (30 kilometers) south of Baghdad, according to news reports. (Agence France-Presse (AFP) listed the interpreter as Mohamed Najmedin
35	Mahmood Ismael Dawood	reporter, Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed newspaper	29/05/2004	shot by armed men in Baghdad
36	Samiya Abd al-Jabir	administrator and technician, Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed	29/05/2004	shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad
37	Sahar Saad Al-Noaimi	reporter in Meezan and Al-Hayat Al-Jadida	3/06/2004	killed when a grenade was thrown on his car in Kerkuk
38	Abdel Karim Jassem	technician of Al-Iraqiya TV station	12/06/2004	Killed in Al Qaim [source: IBC]
39	Jawad Kassem Hamadi	driver of Al-Iraqiya TV station	12/06/2004	Killed in Al Qaim [source: IBC]
40	Husam Ali	freelance cameraman	15/08/2004	killed in Falluja by unknown armed men
41	Mahmood Hamid Abbass	cameraman, German TV	15/08/2004	shot by unknown armed men in Fallujah
42	Isam Hadi Muhsin Al-Shumary	Cameraman Südost Media	15/08/2004	Still missing, probably killed
43	Ali Jabir	Iraqi journalist accompanying the Italian journalist Enzo Baldini	21/08/2004	killed by armed men near Najaf, after the Italian journalist was kidnapped
44	Jamal Tafeeq Salman	photographer, Gazeta Wyborcza August 25, 2004	25/08/2004	shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad
45	Ghareeb	driver working for freelance journalist Enzo Baldoni	28/08/2004	The driver and Baldoni were ambushed by gunmen while traveling outside Baghdad, accordinmg to news reports and CPJ sources. The two were reported missing on August 20. They were believed to be heading to the southern city of Najaf, where U.S. forces had battled with Shiite insurgents for several weeks
46	Ismael Tahir Mohsin	reporter for AP	2/09/2004	shot near his house by unknown armed men
47	Ahmad Jasim	reporter, Al-Iraqiya	7/10/2004	shot by unknown armed men
48	Dina Mohamad Hassan	reporter to Al-Huriya TV	14/10/2004	killed in Adhamiya by armed men
49	Karam Hussein	photographer	14/10/2004	Pressphoto, killed in Mosul
50	Liqa' Abdul Razzaq	newsreader in Al-Sharqiya TV	27/10/2004	killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad
51	Unknown translator	translator	27/10/2004	Gunmen killed Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, an Iraqi news reader, and her translator on their way home from work at al-Sharqiya television in Baghdad.
52	Nasralla Al-Dawoodi	editor-in-chief of Al-Iraq Daily	30/10/2004	killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad
53	Ali Adnan	technician, Al-Arabiya	30/10/2004	car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office
54	Hassan Alwan Al Dehlegi	Al-Arabiya	30/10/2004	car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office
55	Nabeel hassan	Al-Arabiya	30/10/2004	car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office
56	Ramziya Moushi	Al-Arabiya	30/10/2004	car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office
57	Alahin Hussein	Al-Arabiya	30/10/2004	car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office
58	Wadallah Sarhan	editor-in-chief Akhbar Al-Mosul	1/11/2004	killed by unknown armed men near his home
59	Dhia Najim	cameraman, Reuters	1/11/2004	shot by an American sniper in his head when he was covering the fighting between armed men and the American troops
60	Maisoon Abdul Hafidh	editing designer, in Al-Jumhoriya newspaper	10/01/2005	killed near her office in Baghdad
61	Muayd Sámi	editor-in-chief of the Parliament news paper in Baquba	13/01/2005	killed by unknown armed men
62	Ali Dhia Hassan	reporter in al-Nahdha newspaper	16/01/2005	shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad
63	Huda Dhia Hassan	Ali Dhia Hassan's sister, reporter in Nahdha newspaper	16/01/2005	shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad
64	Fadhil Hussein Al-Khafaji	reporter in Al-Da'wa newspaper	30/01/2005	killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad
65	Dawod Qassim	reporter, The German Radio	4/02/2005	killed with his wife and father by unknown armed men in Baghdad
66	Abdul Hussein el-Fayath	Al-Hurra satellite channel reporter	9/02/2005	killed with his son,3, by unknown armed men in Basra
67	Dler Karam Ali	Kurdish journalist working for the Al-Ittihad Al-Isalmi and Al-Ofoq Al-Islami newspapers	12/02/2005	shot and injured by US forces on the road between Baghdad and Darbandikhan, in Northern Iraq. He died 3 days later in hospital. He was passing through a US military checkpoint on his way to cover the elections when US soldiers on duty asked the car to stop, the driver refused and the soldiers started shooting at the car, seriously injuring Karam Ali.
68	Unidentified driver	driver working for Mohammad Sherif Ali, an Iraqi journalist working for Al-Hurra, a U.S.-funded Arabic television station	25/02/2005	killed when gunmen attacked their car in Iskandiriyah, a town about 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Baghdad. Ali was seriously injured in the attack.
69	Raida Al-Wazzan	announcer in Al-Iraqiya satellite TV	28/02/2005	killed by unknown armed men in Mosul
70	Laiq Ibrahim	reporter in Kurdistan radio	10/03/2005	killed by unknown armed men in Kerkuk
71	Husan Hilal Sarsam	cameraman in Kurdistan TV	14/03/2005	killed by unknown armed men in Mosul
72	Ali Ibrahim Issa	cameraman, Al-Hurriya TV	14/04/2005	killed in an explosion near the interior ministry in Baghdad
73	Fadhil Hazim Fadhil	Al-Hurriya TV reporter	14/04/2005	killed in an explosion near the interior ministry in Baghdad
74	Ahmad Abdul Jabbar Hashim	reporter in Al-Sabah Daily	1/04/2005	kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men
75	Shadman Abdullah Izzedine	a prominent personality on Kirkuk TV	15/04/2005	Unidentified assailants gunned down Izzedine and Abdullah, as they were driving on the main highway from Kirkuk to Baghdad. Kurdish journalists in Kirkuk said that their car was fired on by a group of armed men driving in a black Nissan. Local journalists also said that Kirkuk TV's anti-insurgent stance has made it vulnerable to attack from armed groups, and they believe Izzedine was targeted for his work with the station.
76	Laiq Abdullah	assistant of Shadman Abdullah Izzedine	15/04/2005	Unidentified assailants gunned down Izzedine and Abdullah, as they were driving on the main highway from Kirkuk to Baghdad. Kurdish journalists in Kirkuk said that their car was fired on by a group of armed men driving in a black Nissan. Local journalists also said that Kirkuk TV's anti-insurgent stance has made it vulnerable to attack from armed groups, and they believe Izzedine, a prominent personality on Kirkuk TV, was targeted for his work with the station.
77	Ahmed Al Rubai'i	reporter and editor at the U.S.-backed daily Al-Sabah who also worked in the media department of the Iraqi National Assembly	15/04/2005	disappeared in mid-April and is presumed dead. No body has been found. However, his press pass was found in the possession of several criminals arrested in June, and they told authorities that he had been beheaded because he was a "traitor." his newspaper work, al-Rubai'i became a media officer for the National Assembly a few months before his disappearance.
78	Salih Ibrahim	AP reporter	23/04/2005	killed in an explosion targeting the American troops in Baghdad
79	Najat Mohamad Karim	administrator, in Dijla radio	26/04/2005	targeted by a sniper in his office in Baghdad
80	Qasim Mohamad	guard, Dijla radio	26/04/2005	targeted by a sniper in his office in Baghdad
81	Ahmad Adam Mostafa	journalist and writer in Al-Mada Daily	15/05/2005	slaughtered by unknown armed men in Yousfiya
82	Ali Jassem Al Rumi	freelance reporter	15/05/2005	slaughtered by unknown armed men in Yousfiya
83	Najim Abid Khudheir	freelance reporter	15/05/2005	slaughtered by unknown armed men in Yousfiya
84	Jerges Mohammed Sultan	journalist of Al-Iraqiya	31/05/2005	killed near his house by unknown armed men
85	Haydar Al-Jourani	reporter of Al-da'wa newspaper In Najaf	1/06/2005	killed by the American troops in the fighting with the Mahdi Army
86	Muhammad Khalaf	Reporter	10/06/2005	Saadi Khalaf, an Oil Ministry employee; Muhammad Khalaf, a reporter, Esam Fadhil, their cousin, found bound, tortured, gunshot wounds in Dora, Baghdad.[source: IBC]
87	Ahmad Khalid Sultan	reporter of Al-Sad newspaper, member of Young Journalists Association	17/06/2005	killed by unknown armed men west of Baghdad
88	Jasim Al-Qaissi	reporter in Al-Siyada newspaper	22/06/2005	killed in his car with his son north of Baghdad
89	Jasim Al-Sheikhly	freelance journalist	22/06/2005	killed by unknown armed men
90	Maha Ibrahim	editor-in-chief, Baghdad TV	26/06/2005	shot by the American troops in Baghdad
91	Ahmad Wa'il Al-bakri	TV director in Al-Sharqiya TV	28/06/2005	shot by the American troops in Baghdad
92	Yassir Al-Salihi	reporter to an American media group Night Ridder	30/06/2005	shot in his car by the American troops
93	Hadi Hassan Al-Shamari	editing secretary Biladi magazine	1/07/2005	killed by unknown armed men
94	Khalid Sabih Al-Attar	producer and presenter in Al-Iraqiya TV	1/07/2005	kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Mosul
95	Haider Karim Azawi	INNA journalist	2/07/2005	Journalist shot dead by US forces in Baghdad [source: IBC]
96	Adnan Al-Bayati	producer and presenter in the Italian TV	23/07/2005	killed in his house in Baghdad by unknown armed men
97	Nouriya Itais	translator of Steven Vincent	2/08/2005	kidnapped and shot down by unknown armed men
98	Abdul Qadir Mohamad Al-Badrani	reporter in Iraqiyoon News Agency, worked also for Reuters, was married and had 3 children.	8/08/2005	shot by the US and Iraqi troops in Falluja
99	Unknown Iraqi journalist	Unknown	10/08/2005	In another development, an Iraqi journalist was shot dead by Iraqi soldiers as he was driving his car near their patrol on a main road in Fallujah, local residents said.
100	Zaid Mohamad Salloom Al-Zubaidi	driver in Al-Hurra news channel	12/08/2005	killed by unknown armed men south of Baghdad
101	Rafed Al Rubaii	Al Irakiya	27/08/2005
102	Rafid Mahmood Said al-Anbagy	radio presenter in Diyala, IMN	27/08/2005	killed by unknown armed men in Al-Gatoon area
103	Raed Mahmud	TV director/journalist in Baquba	27/08/2005	Shot down in Baquba [source: IBC]
104	Hayder Kadhim	reporter, Reuters	29/08/2005	shot by the American troops in Hay Al-Adil in Baghdad while he was covering the fighting
105	Walid Khaled Ibrahim	reporter, Reuters	29/08/2005	shot by the American troops in Hay Al-Adil in Baghdad while he was covering the fighting
106	Firas Al-Ma'adhidi	Al-Safeer newspaper reporter	16/09/2005	killed by unknown armed men in Mosul
107	Sabah Mohssin	Al-Iraqiya	17/09/2005
108	Haydar Fakhir Al-Tamimi	New York Times reporter and director of Al-Mirbad News Channel	19/09/2005	kidnapped and killed in Basra
109	Hind Ismael	Al-Safeer newspaper reporter in Mosul	20/09/2005	killed by unknown armed men
110	Ahlam Yousif	Tv engineer, Al-Iraqiya TV	22/09/2005	killed in Mosul by unknown armed men
111	Bassem al-Fadli	manager of Al-Iraqiya TV station	22/09/2005	killed in Mosul by unknown armed men
112	Sabah Salmane	journalist	1/09/2005	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22998
113	Mohamad Haroon Al-Fatlawi	secretary general of Iraqi Journalists Union, editor-in-chief of Al-Qadhiya Daily	19/10/2005	killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad
114	Ahmad Hussein Al-Maliki	reporter in Tallafar newspaper	7/11/2005	kidnapped for two months then killed by unknown armed men in Musol
115	Akeel Abdul Ridha	Al-Iraqiya	28/11/2005	killed by unknown armed men
116	Muqdad Muhsin	Al-Iraqiya	28/11/2005	killed by unknown armed men
117	Abdul Salaam Ahmad	reporter in Al-Soumariya TV	10/12/2005	killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad
118	Khalid Muhammad	Al-Iraqiyah TV station employee	27/12/2005	killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad
119	Alan Anoi	translator, Christian Science Monitor	7/01/2006	killed when the American journalist Jill Carol was kidnapped in Baghdad
120	Sarmad Salman	freelance sports reporter	10/01/2006	kidnapped and killed by armed men in Baghdad
121	Mahmood Za'al	reporter Baghdad TV	14/01/2006	killed by the American troops in Khaldiya
122	Luaay Salam Radeef	Al-Baghdadia	16/01/2006
123	Hamza Hussein	sports reporter, Al-Diyar TV	22/01/2006	killed in a car bomb in Baghdad
124	Abdul Razzaq A-Na'as	writer and professor of journalism in Baghdad university	29/01/2006	shot by unknown armed men, in Baghdad
125	Mohammad Siddik	driver and security guard who worked part time with the Voice of America	17/02/2006	shot and killed by an unknown assailant near his home in the Doura section of Baghdad. The attack took place shortly after Siddik dropped a VOA correspondent at Baghdad airport. The assailant approached Siddik and shot him in the head and torso while Siddik waited in line to buy cooking oil at a shop near his home
126	Raeda Wazzan	news anchor with the Iraqi state TV channel Al-Iraqiya	20/02/2006	kidnapped on February 20, was found dead five days later on a roadside in Mosul, where the journalist had lived and worked, according to press reports citing her husband. She had been shot in the head repeatedly. Gunmen had also kidnapped Wazzan's 10-year-old son, but he was released days later
127	Adnan Kheiralla	tv engineer, Al-Arabiya	23/02/2006	kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen
128	Atwar Bahjat	Al-Arabiya correspondent	23/02/2006	kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen
129	Khalid Mahmood Al-Falahi	Al-Arabiya cameraman	23/02/2006	kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen
130	Khaled Mohsen	Al-Arabiya sound technician	23/02/2006	kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen
131	Monsif Abdulla Al-Khalidi	news director in Baghdad TV	7/03/2006	killed by unknown armed men in Mosul
132	Amjad Hamid Mohsin	Al-Iraqiya TV director	11/03/2006	killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad, including his driver
133	Anwar Turky	driver, Al-Iraqiya TV	11/03/2006	killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad
134	Mohsin Khodeir	editor-in-chief, Alefba' magazine	13/03/2006	killed by unknown armed men
135	Ali Hamid Al-Mayahi	reporter in Al-Da'wa newspaper	19/03/2006	killed by the American-Iraqi joint troops when he was covering a military raid on a mosques in Baghdad
136	Kamil Manahi Anbar	reporter in Al-Nahar and correspondent of the Institute of War and Peace Journalism	19/03/2006	killed by the American-Iraqi joint troops when he was covering a military raid on a mosques in Baghdad
137	So'oud Muzahim al-Shoumari	correspondent for the Egypt-based satellite channel Al-Baghdadia	4/04/2006	found shot in Baghdad's southern district of Doura on April 4 by Iraqi police and taken to Yarmouk hospital morgue.
138	Abdul Jalil Jasim Al-Mahamadawi	reporter in Al-Risala newspaper	8/04/2006	killed in a suicide explosion while he was covering a Friday prayer in a mosque in Baghdad
139	Qusai Al-Amiri	media coordinator in Al-Bilad radio	22/04/2006	killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad
140	Sa'd Shammari	TV journalist who hosted a show on the Al-Iraqiyah channel	5/05/2006	found wrapped in a blanket and dumped on the side of a road in Baghdad. The journalist was apparently strangled.
141	Sa'ud M'Zahim Al Hudaythi	working for Baghdadiyah TV	5/05/2006	Circumstances are unknown.
142	Abdel Majid al-Mehmedawi	reported on social issues	5/05/2006	murdered by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad’s center, according to local sources. The motive for his killing was unknown.
143	Ismail Mohammad Khalaf	Al Sabah	7/05/2006	killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad
144	Laith Mishan al-Dulaimi	Iraqi journalist, Al-Nahrain TV, a private station	8/05/2006	found dead south of Baghdad, a day after they were stopped by men wearing police uniforms
145	Muazaz Ahmed Barood	Iraqi journalist, Al-Nahrain TV, a private station	8/05/2006	found dead south of Baghdad, a day after they were stopped by men wearing police uniforms
146	Abed Shaker al Delaimi	Photographer for Jumhureyya and al Qadeseyya newspapers and occasional freelance for Reuters	8/05/2006	killed in Basra by unknown armed men
147	Saud M’Zahim Al-Hedaithi	Baghdadiyah TV	8/05/2006	killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad
148	Abbas Ahmed Kadhem	journalist at al Adaalah (Justice) newspaper	10/05/2006	was found dead in al Madaen. This is the same district where Laith Mashaan and Muazaz Ahmed were murdered on Sunday May 7th.
149	Muzahim al-Hadithi	worked for a pro-Sunni Iraqi television station	11/05/2006	Baghdad (Dora) A reporter who was gunned down in Baghdad…He was found dead - shot repeatedly in the head - in Baghdad's notorious Dora neighborhood last week Bottom of Form
150	Sadek al-Shammari	of the German-based news organization, Iraqi News Network	18/05/2006	shot dead by insurgents in Jisr Diyala, south of the Iraqi capital.
151	jafaar Ali	TV Sports presenter of Al Iraqiya	31/05/2006	11th Al-Iraqiya employee gunned down in Baghdad
152	Mohammed Jassim	cameraman for Al-Iraqiya TV, , May 31, 2006	31/05/2006	killed by unknown gunmen north of Baghdad
153	Ibrahim Seneid	Journalist Al Bashara	13/06/2006	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18030
154	Alaa Hassan	Iraqi journalist, who reported for the international news agency IPS (Inter Press Service), was shot and killed in Baghdad.	28/06/2006	Hassan was killed on Jun. 28 by armed men as he drove to work. It appears he was not targeted, but was just in the wrong place at the wrong time
155	Ossama Qadeer	Cameraman, Fox News	29/06/2006	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18170
156	Adel Naji Al Mansouri	Journalist Al Alam TV	1/08/2006	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18451
157	Abdul Wahab Abdul Razeq Ahmad Al Qaisie	Journalist, editor-in-chief of Kul Al-Dunya magazine	31/07/2006	Monday night, Iraqi journalist Abdul Wahab Abdul Razeq Ahmad Al Qaisie was found dead 10 days after he was kidnapped by masked gunmen in Baghdad
158	Riyad Muhammad Ali	a reporter for the local weekly Tal Afar al-Yawm	31/07/2006	Riyad Muhammad Ali was shot by unidentified assailants in Mosul on Sunday.
159	Riyad Atto	Talafar al Youm	1/08/2006	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18498
160	Ismail Amin Ali / Ismael Mohammad	freelance journalist	7/08/2006	Late Monday, police found the bullet-riddled body of Ismail Amin Ali, 30, about a half mile from where he was abducted two weeks ago in northeast Baghdad. The body showed sign of torture.
161	Mohammed Abbas Hamad	a journalist for the Shiite-owned newspaper Al-Bayinnah Al-Jadida	7/08/2006	Mohammed Abbas Hamad, 28 was shot by gunmen at he left his home Monday in the Adil section of western Baghdad, police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun said.
162	Unidentified	A guard employed by the state-run daily newspaper Al-Sabah	27/08/2006	killed when an explosive-packed car detonated in the building’s garage at about 8:30 a.m. The blast killed another, unidentified person, injured 20 others, and caused severe damage to the newspaper building in Baghdad’s northern Waziriya district
163	Iyad Nassif al-Mousawai	Journalist, editor at Al-Ameen and Al-Ra’i newspapers	29/08/2006	The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory said on Tuesday that Iraqi journalist Iyad Nassif al-Mousawai was found killed after he was kidnapped by an armed group in Palestine Street in east Baghdad last month.
164	Abdel Karim Al-Roubai	senior technician with the government daily Al-Sabah	9/09/2006	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18806
165	Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri	representative of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate	12/09/2006	Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri, 56, was ambushed as he was driving 125 miles northeast of Baghdad, according to the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory. His body was found riddled with bullets. CPJ is investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.
166	Safaa Ismail Inad	journalist at al-Watan Newspaper	12/09/2006	Police found the body of Safaa Ismail Inad shot in the head near Sadr city in eastern Baghdad, police said
167	Alaa Adel	assistant to Isam Rasheed, a "videoblogger" or "correspondent" based in Baghdad	15/09/2006	KILLED by US troops when he was on the way to Isam Rasheed's house. They shot him in the head with a special bullet.
168	Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli	correspondent for Baghdad TV	18/09/2006	http://www.cpj.org/news/2006/mideast/iraq18sept06na.html
169	Jassem Hamad Ibrahim	driver for the Iraqi state television channel Al-Iraqiya	4/10/2006	shot by unidentified gunmen in Mosul. The assailants ambushed Ibrahim at about 2 p.m. as he was running errands for the station, according to a source at Nineveh TV, the local affiliate of Al-Iraqiya. His body was found riddled with bullets
170	Jassim Aarif Hassan	Al-Charkiya TV	7/10/2006	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19138
171	Azad Mohammed Hassan	correspondent to Dar al-Salam Radio	10/10/2006	found killed after he was kidnapped by an armed group a week ago. Dar al-Salam Radio is run by the Sunni Muslim Clerics Commission Bottom of Form
172	Abdel Rahim Nasrallah Al Shumari	Director of "Shabiyaa" television station	11/10/2006	The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.
173	Dhakir Hussein Al Shuwaili	Producer of "Shabiyaa" television station	11/10/2006	The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.
174	Ahmad Shaaban	Producer "Shabiyaa" television station	11/10/2006	The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.
175	Nawfal Al Shumari	Deputy Director of "Shabiyaa" television station	11/10/2006	The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.
176	Hussein Ali	Technician of "Shabiyaa" television station	11/10/2006	The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.
177	Sami Nasrallah Al Shumari	Head Administrator of "Shabiyaa" television station	11/10/2006	The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.
178	Maher	Security Guard of "Shabiyaa" television station	11/10/2006	The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.
179	Ahmed	Security Guard of "Shabiyaa" television station	11/10/2006	The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.
180	Hassan	Security Guard of "Shabiyaa" television station	11/10/2006	The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.
181	Ali Jabber	Security Guard of "Shabiyaa" television station	11/10/2006	The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.
182	Bashir	electric generator operator of Shabiyaa TV station	11/10/2006	The death toll in the attack on the local TV station reached 11, with two people seriously wounded.Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen's cars resembled police vehicles.
183	Mohammed Abdul Rahman	Radio announcer of Radio Dijala	12/10/2006	He was kidnapped in mid-September in the western Baghdad neighbourhood of Mansour, where he had moved after receiving threats.
184	Ali Hlayel	security guard for Atyaf	13/10/2006	http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/Iraq/iraq_media_killed.html
185	Raed Qais al-Shammari	al-Iraqiya channel...government-run TV	14/10/2006	killed in a drive-by shooting in southern Baghdad.
186	Ali Halil	Al Irakiya journalist	16/10/2006	murdered by gunmen yesterday in the Baghdad district of Al Hurriye
187	Saad Mehdi Shalash	prof in journalism, director of the editing board at Rayat Al Arab newspaper	25/10/2006	killed along with his wife in their home in Baghdad
188	Nakshin Hama Rashid	presenter on the Kurdish-language TV station Atiaf	29/10/2006	murdered in her car along with her driver, Anas Kassim Nejm, in the centre of Baghdad
189	Anis Qassem	driver for the Iraqi state television channel Atyaf	29/10/2006	murdered in her car along with her driver, Anas Kassim Nejm, in the centre of Baghdad
190	Sherin Hamid	TV presenter Al Iraqiya TV	29/10/2006	http://www.ifj.org/pdfs/JournalistsKilled2007finalweb.pdf
191	Abdelmajid Ismael Khalil	Freelance journalist, worked for several national dailies	31/10/2006	kidnapped on 18 October in the east Baghdad neighbourhood of Jamila by gunmen who surrounded his car and forced him to go with them. Local police found his body 13 days later in the same neighbourhood
192	Ahmed al-Rasheed	reporter with al-Sharqiya, an Iraqi satellite TV channel	3/11/2006	killed in Adhamiya around 6:30 p.m. Friday, according to an official with the Iraqi Journalistic Freedoms Observatory. The reporter was in his car when he was killed. Al-Rasheed, 29, started working at the station in September. He previously worked with al-Diyar TV.
193	Qussai Abass	Tariq Al Shaab, a newspaper affiliated to the Communist Party	2/11/2006	gunned down with his driver in a similar fashion as he was travelling to the newspaper’s office in Baghdad
194	Unknown	Driver Tariq Al Shaab newspaper	2/11/2006	gunned down with journalist Qussai Abass as he was travelling to the newspaper’s office in Baghdad
195	Mohammed al-Ban	cameraman for the TV station al-Sharqiya	13/11/2006	Gunmen in Mosul kill him. He also worked for local newspaper Al Masar.
196	Fadia Mohammed Ali	Journalist with the Al Masar newspaper in Mosul	15/11/2006	Gunmen kill journalist Fadia Mohammed Ali and her driver on her way to the newspaper
197	Unknown driver	Driver Al Masar newspaper	15/11/2006	Gunmen kill journalist Fadia Mohammed Ali and her driver on her way to the newspaper
198	Luma Abdallah Al Karkhi	Journalist Al-Dustour	15/11/2006	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19812
199	Walid Hassan	Journalist Al-Sharkiya	20/11/2006	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19813
200	Raad Jaafar Hamadi	Journalist Al Sabah	22/11/2006	killed in the east Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Washash when his car was fired on by four gunmen in another vehicle, which immediately took off.
201	Fadhila Abdul Karim	reporter for Mosul Radio	27/11/2006	killed in Mosul
202	Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi	Journalist Radio Dijlah	4/12/2006	venait de quitter son domicile en voiture quand il a été tué par des assaillants non-identifiés
203	Aswan Ahmed Lutfallah	APTN cameraman	12/12/2006	gunned down today in the city of Mosul, 370 km north of Baghdad. Reuters reported that he had gone to an industrial district to get his car repaired when two gangs started shooting at each other. He was shot when he took out his camera to film the clash.
204	Yasin al-Dulaimi / Yasin al-Yasin	IWPR contributor from Ramadi, in Anbar province, who over the past two years had regularly filed excellent features and news analysis for IWPR’s Iraqi Crisis Report	26/12/2006	died of severe head injures on December 26 after being hit by a roadside bomb in the Baghdad neighbourhood Kadhimiya. He was driving home when the device, targeting a US convoy, went off. He died at the scene.
205	Akil Sarhan	sports TV channel al-Riyadia	29/12/2006	member of the Iraqi media Network) was killed when his car was attacked by an armed group as he drove to work.
206	Ahmed Hadi Naji	messenger and occasional cameraman for the AP	5/01/2007	Naji's wife, Sahba'a Mudhar Khalil, reported him missing Dec. 30 when he did not return that evening. He had left home by motorcycle in the Ashurta Al Khamsa District in southwest Baghdad at 10:30 a.m., telling her he was going to the AP office. Naji's body was found in a morgue. He was found shot in the back of the head, six days after he was last seen by his family leaving for work.
207	Khoudr Younes al-Obaidi	Freelance journalist	12/01/2007	Armed men opened fire on Khoudr Younes al-Obaidi in the evening of 12 January as he returned to his home in Mosul, police said. The journalist, who was as a stringer for several titles, worked mostly for Al-Diwan, the press organ of local tribes. No motiv
208	Yassin Aid Assef	Al Sabah’s correspondent	14/01/2007	killed by a bomb while out covering a story in Baghdad
209	Falah Khalaf Al Diyali	journalist of the daily Al Saha	15/01/2007	shot dead by unidentified gunmen on 15 January in the city of Ramadi
210	Unknown	employee of the governmental daily Al Sabah	16/01/2007	Four employees of the governmental daily Al Sabah were killed in an especially horrifying manner from 12 to 16 January. Two, whose names have not been revealed, were kidnapped from the newspaper’s offices in Baghdad on 12 January and were found with their throats cut the next day near Al Nouman hospital.
211	Unknown	employee of the governmental daily Al Sabah	16/01/2007	Four employees of the governmental daily Al Sabah were killed in an especially horrifying manner from 12 to 16 January. Two, whose names have not been revealed, were kidnapped from the newspaper’s offices in Baghdad on 12 January and were found with their throats cut the next day near Al Nouman hospital.
212	Unknown	security guard Al Sabah	16/01/2007	A security guard’s body was found on the newspaper’s roof on 16 January. The newspaper, which did not want to give out his name, said he was probably shot from a distance with a hunting rifle while patrolling the building’s roof.
213	Salih Mehdi	Mustaqbal radio station	17/01/2007	http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalists_Killed_in_2007
214	Mohammed Nuri	Reporter Iraqi Media Network, assassinated in the Ninewa governorate	20/01/2007	http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalists_Killed_in_2007
215	Baha' Hussein Khalaf	Reporter Iraqi Media Network, assassinated in the Ninewa governorate	20/01/2007	http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalists_Killed_in_2007
216	Dhiaa' Mugotar	editor in chief of the Protection of Consumers business magazine, is assassinated in Adhamiya	24/01/2007	http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalists_Killed_in_2007
217	Munjid Al-Tumaimi	Freelance photographer	28/01/2007	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=20929
218	Sabir Amid Mahdi	reporter, killed in a car bombing in the Babel governate	2/02/2007	http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalists_Killed_in_2007
219	Suhad Al-Khalidi	Reporter for Iraqi Media Network, killed by US troops when their patrol passes by her car in Hilla	4/02/2007	http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalists_Killed_in_2007
220	Nabras Mohammed Hadi	security guard	7/02/2007	Three guards working for the government funded al-Iraqiya TV were killed by fire of foreign security guards in central Baghdad, a media source said. Foreign security guards accompanying a delegation shot and killed three guards working for al-Iraqiya TV.
221	Azhar Abdullah al-Maliki	security guard	7/02/2007	Three guards working for the government funded al-Iraqiya TV were killed by fire of foreign security guards in central Baghdad, a media source said. Foreign security guards accompanying a delegation shot and killed three guards working for al-Iraqiya TV.
222	Sabah Salman	security guard	7/02/2007	Three guards working for the government funded al-Iraqiya TV were killed by fire of foreign security guards in central Baghdad, a media source said. Foreign security guards accompanying a delegation shot and killed three guards working for al-Iraqiya TV
223	Hussein Al Zubaydi	journalist with the weekly al-Ahali	19/02/2007	killed by gunmen in unclear circumstances in Baghdad
224	Abderrazak Hashim Al-Khakani	journalist with radio Jumhuriyat Al Iraq	20/02/2007	The bullet-riddled body of Abderrazak Hashim Al-Khakani, a journalist with radio Jumhuriyat Al Iraq, was discovered in a Baghdad morgue
225	Rasoul Abdul Hussein	reporter, killed together with his wife in Diwaniya	21/02/2007	http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalists_Killed_in_2007
226	Jamal al-Zubaidi	managing editor of Baghdad's al-Safir (the ambassador) newspaper	2/03/2007	found killed in southwest Baghdad and showed signs of having been shot in the head
227	Mohan al-Dhahr	managing editor of al-Mashriq newspaper	3/03/2007	murdered by unidentified gunmen near his home in western Baghdad,
228	Youssef Sabri	Iraqi TV journalist for Biladi TV, a privately-owned station affiliated with al-Dawa	14/03/2007	was among the 22 killed from a car bombing at a Baghdad checkpoint in the al Dawra district in the south of Baghdad. He was reportedly at the checkpoint to film Shia pilgrims leaving the capital for the holy city of Karbala.
229	Hussein al Jaburi	editor of the daily al-Safir	16/03/2007	He died from his injuries in a hospital in Amman, Jordan on 16 March where he was taken for treatment after being ambushed outside his Baghdad home on 11 February.
230	Hamid al-Duleimi	producer on the TV channel al-Nahrain	19/03/2007	His body was found dead in the Baghdad morgue. He had been abducted two days previously as he left the channel’s studios.
231	Hamid Mohammed Salih	program director for the Dijlah radio station, is assassinated in the Jami'a district	19/03/2007	http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalists_Killed_in_2007
232	Mohammed Jassim Yousif	reporter for the Iraqi Media Network, assassinated west of Baghdad	31/03/2007	http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalists_Killed_in_2007
233	Khamel Mohsin	well-known to Iraqis as a TV and radio presenter during the Saddam Hussein era.	3/04/2007	kidnapped by gunmen as she left her office in the university district on 3 April. Her body was found the next day. She had worked for Radio Sawa since Saddam’s removal.
234	Khamail Khalaf	freelance journalist for the Arabic-language service of the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) since 2004	6/04/2007	found today, three days after she went missing. She had been shot.
235	Thaer Ahmed Jabr	Baghdad TV deputy director	5/04/2007	killed and at least 12 people were wounded in an attack on the satellite TV station yesterday in which a truck laden with explosives was driven at the building and then gunmen opened fire.
236	Husain Nizaer	journalist trainee - Baghdad TV	5/04/2007	killed and at least 12 people were wounded in an attack on the satellite TV station yesterday in which a truck laden with explosives was driven at the building and then gunmen opened fire.
237	Othman al-Mashhadani	Al-Watan	9/04/2007	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21653
238	Iman Yussef Abdallah	radio mouthpiece of the Mosul workers' union	12/04/2007	Gunmen shot dead Iman Yussef Abdallah and her husband in an eastern area of the city, the Iraqi Association for the Defence of Journalists' Rights said. Their bodies were later set alight in their vehicle,
239	Khaled Fayyad Obaid al-Hamdani	producer for Nahrain, a satellite television channel in Baghdad	12/04/2007	left his home on April 12 in the neighbourhood of Abu Ghraib and drove to Baghdad, purposefully speeding as he always did along the so-called Highway of Death to minimise danger. An American patrol spotted him and, apparently alarmed by his speed, shot him dead.
240	Adel al-Badri	Staff employee of Radio Dijla	3/05/2007	gunmen attacked staff at the independent radio station in a predominantly Sunni area of Baghdad, killing two and wounding five, and then bombed the building and knocked the station off the air
241	Unknown	Staff employee of Radio Dijla	3/05/2007	gunmen attacked staff at the independent radio station in a predominantly Sunni area of Baghdad, killing two and wounding five, and then bombed the building and knocked the station off the air
242	Raad Mutasha al-Issawi	chairman of Kirkuk writers' union and owner of al-Raad media institution, which publishes a number of papers	9/05/2007	Three journalists and their driver were killed on Wednesday when their car was intercepted by an armed group near the northern city of Kirkuk.
243	Abdul-Razzaq al-Obeidi	writer working for al-Raad.	9/05/2007	An armed group in a car intercepted and opened fire at the car that three journalists were onboard, killing them on the spot along with the driver near al-Rashad district, 25 km southwest of Kirkuk.
244	Aqeel Abdul-Qader	writer working for al-Raad.	9/05/2007	A police source told Reuters that the men were targeted because of their work, and that they were actually dragged from the car first and tortured before being shot.
245	Nibras Razzaq	Driver	9/05/2007	The killed journalists were Raad Mutashar, chairman of Kirkuk writers' union and owner of al-Raad media institution, which publishes a number of papers, and Imad Abdul-Razzaq al-Obeidi and Aqeel Abdul-Qader, both writers working for al-Raad.
246	Alaa Uldeen Aziz	Cameraman for ABC News	17/05/2007	Two Iraqi journalists working for ABC News were captured by gunmen and executed in Baghdad
247	Saif Laith Yousuf	Soundman for ABC News	17/05/2007	Two Iraqi journalists working for ABC News were captured by gunmen and executed in Baghdad
248	Ali Khaleel	reporter for Az-Zaman	21/05/2007	kidnapped while leaving the home of a relative in Baghdad, and found dead several hours later
249	Mahmoud Hassib al-Qassab	editor of al-Hawadeth weekly	28/05/2007	Unidentified gunmen killed the editor-in-chief of a weekly newspaper published in Kirkuk in front of his house in the predominantly-Turkoman neighborhood of al-Musalla, northern Kirkuk
250	Aidan Abdullah al-Jamiji	in charge of Kirkuk television's Turkoman language section	26/05/2007	the body of Aidan Abdullah al-Jamiji, who was in charge of Kirkuk television's Turkoman language section and was a well-known local musician, was found on 26 May in the boot of his car. The car had been torched and dumped near a cemetery in the northern c
251	Abul Rahman al-Essawi	reporter for the independent National Iraqi News Agency (NINA)	30/05/2007	Unknown armed men on Tuesday night stormed the house of Abul Rahman al-Essawi, a journalist, in Abu Saleh town in Ameriyah Falluja district, south of Fallujah, and opened fire against him and his six-member family. Al-Essawi was killed along with his wife, son, parents and three other relatives,
252	Nazar Abdul-Wahid al-Radi	correspondent for Voices of Iraq and the director of the Young Journalists’ League in Missan	30/05/2007	An armed group consisting of three gunmen opened fire against Nezar Abdul Wahid al-Radi and five other journalists at 11:00 am near al-Arousa Hotel in central Ammara, killing him on the spot. The other journalists survived
253	Saif M. Fakhry	Iraqi cameraman working for the Associated Press	31/05/2007	shot twice while walking to a mosque near his home on his day off, the agency said in a statement, adding that he was the fifth Associated Press (AP) employee to die violently during the Iraq war.
254	Sahar Hussein al-Haydari	Voices of Iraq (VOI) correspondent	7/06/2007	Killed on Thursday afternoon in Mosul by unidentified gunmen. Her name was among other names listed by what is called "Emir of the Islamic State in Mosul". Al-Haydari was born in Baghdad in 1962 and had a bachelor’s degree in media. She is survived by her husband and three daughters.
255	Mohammed Hilal Karji	Journalist for Baghdad TV	7/06/2007	kidnapped June 7 outside his home while on his way to work in the Yousifiyah region south of Baghdad, and his bullet-ridden body was found in a morgue the following day, an official at the station said.
256	Aref Ali Filaih	correspondent working for the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI)	11/06/2007	killed on Monday when an explosive charge went off near Khalis district, 55 km north of Baghdad, while he was performing his mission as a journalist
257	Fleh Dway Megthab	A longtime journalist, he had worked for a state-run newspaper under the former regime and now was the political editor of a government-financed daily Al Sabah.	17/06/2007	kidnapped on Wednesday morning while leaving his house, along with his son, in al-Habebiya neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. Three civilians vehicles intercepted Dway's car and took him captive. His body was found on Sunday in Baghdad's morgue with bullet
	Unknown	correspondent for the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram (was wounded)	19/06/2007	At least 78 people were killed and 224 wounded, including a correspondent for the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, in a car bomb explosion targeting the Shi’ite Khillani mosque in a crowded area of central Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon
258	Zeena Shakir Mahmoud	former radio broadcaster, was writing about women's affairs for the Al-Haqiqa newspaper	24/06/2007	Zeena Shakir Mahmoud was shot to death on her way home from work in Mosul. Although she worked for a Kurdish paper, she was a Sunni Arab.
259	Rahim Al-Maliki	Reporter Al-Iraqiya and poet	25/06/2007	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22723
260	Lu'ay Sulayman Luqman	Journalist	27/06/2007	Lu'ay Sulayman Luqman, journalist, Zuhayr Yusuf Astivu, both members of a Christian cultural society,; gunned down in a drive-by shooting in central Mosul. [source: IBC]
261	Sarmad Hamdi al-Hassani	Journalist for Baghdad TV	27/06/2007	Hassani, 43, was seized from his home in Baghdad's Jamia neighborhood on June 27, his body found the next day, the official said.
262	Hamed Abd Farhan	veteran journalist who had worked for the Iraqi News Agency for over 30 years, as well as several local newspapers and magazines	27/06/2007	Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi journalist near his house in the Turath disrict of southern Baghdad, a source from the Iraqi Journalists Union said.Most recently he worked in the media bureau of the Baghdad Municipality.
263	Louaï Souleimane	Reporter Nineveh	28/06/2007	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22809
264	Mohammed Hilal Karji	Journalist Baghdad TV	4/07/2007	http://www.ifj.org/assets/docs/101/215/48f5565-778f0d7.pdf
265	Ali Watan	Journalist for Samawa local TV	7/07/2007	killed in the clashes that erupted between security forces and fighters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa during the last two days
266	Namir Noor-Eldeen	Reuters photographer	12/07/2007	killed in eastern Baghdad at a time when clashes had been taking place between U.S. forces and militants in the area.
267	Saeed Chmagh	Reuters Driver	12/07/2007	killed in eastern Baghdad at a time when clashes had been taking place between U.S. forces and militants in the area.
268	Khalid W. Hassan	Iraqi correspondent with the New York Times	13/07/2007	shot dead in Baghdad's Saidiyah neighborhood, according to New York Times Baghdad Bureau Chief John Burns, who said "the circumstances of the attack remain unclear at this time."
269	Unknown	translator for Reuters	14/07/2007	Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi who worked as a translator for Reuters in Baghdad this week.Family members said they did not want to reveal the name of their son.
270	Mustafa Darwich Germayani	editor for Kirkuk al-Yawm	17/07/2007	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22982
271	Majid Mohammed	sports reporter for Kirkuk Al-Yawm	17/07/2007	http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22981
272	Adnan Al-Safi	correspondent for the Al-Anwar satellite channel	25/07/2007	shot by a sniper’s bullet in the Utaifiya district of Baghdad
273	Abdul Khaliq al-Habir al-Anbaki	caricaturist in al-Mutamar newspaper	26/07/2007	killed along with his 11-member-family in the car bombing attack that took place on Thursday in Karrada, central Baghdad
274	Anwar Abbas Lafta	CBS translator	26/08/2007	killed by gunmen who stole him from his home. His body was found in the morgue last night
275	Amir al Rashidi	cameraman who works for Al-Iraqiya	3/09/2007	Unidentified gunmen killed Amir al Rashidi, a cameraman who works for Al-Iraqiya, in the centre of Mosul on Monday night
276	Muhannad Ghanim Al Ubeidi	Journalist Radio Dar al-Salam Mosul	20/09/2007	Unidentified gunmen have killed Muhannad Ghanim Ahmed, who worked for the privately owned Radio Dar al-Salam, in the eastern Al-Muharibeen district of the city.
277	Jawad al-Daami	Iraqi television presenter working with the private Al-Baghdadiyah channel	23/09/2007	He was ambushed in the western Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Qadisiyah as he was driving through the area on Sunday. Gunmen opened fire on his car and Daami was killed instantly.
278	Abdul-Khaliq Nasser	member of the Iraqi press syndicate, was a reporter for the official Iraqi newspapers al-Qadissiya and al-Jumhuriya, which both stopped after the U.S. forces invaded Iraq in 2003. He then worked for several local newspapers in Mosul.	28/09/2007	killed during a late hour on Friday evening when a mortar shell fell in the area of Bab al-Bayd, western Mosul. Nasser was at his brother's home when shell hit it
279	Salih Saif Aldin	reporter for the Washington Post	14/10/2007	fatally shot while on assignment in Iraq. The Post said that reporter Salih Saif Aldin, 32, who had been reporting on clashes between militiamen and insurgents in Baghdad's Sadiyah community, was the first reporter for the newspaper to be killed during the Iraq war. The daily wrote that he died after being shot in the forehead Sunday, apparently at close range, while taking photographs on a street in the notoriously dangerous neighborhood.
280	Jasem Mohammad Noufan	Three journalists, working for al-Watan newspaper, were killed and two of their companions were injured in the attack. (According to an IFJ statement 18/10/2007, this person was a journalist)	15/10/2007	Unknown gunmen on Sunday night opened fire against two vehicles with a number of journalists onboard on the Kirkuk-Riyadh road near Houd 18 village in southwestern Kirkuk
281	Khaled Mohammad Noufan	Three journalists, working for al-Watan newspaper, were killed and two of their companions were injured in the attack. (According to an IFJ statement 18/10/2007, this person was a journalist)	15/10/2007	Unknown gunmen on Sunday night opened fire against two vehicles with a number of journalists onboard on the Kirkuk-Riyadh road near Houd 18 village in southwestern Kirkuk
282	Ziyad Tareq Al Dibo	Three journalists, working for al-Watan newspaper, were killed and two of their companions were injured in the attack. (According to an IFJ statement 18/10/2007, this person was a journalist)	15/10/2007	Unknown gunmen on Sunday night opened fire against two vehicles with a number of journalists onboard on the Kirkuk-Riyadh road near Houd 18 village in southwestern Kirkuk
	Dhi Abdul-Razak al-Dibo / Eyad Tariq Al-Takriti	freelance reporter, contributed stories to at least two weekly newspapers in Tikrit / Correspondent of the weekly Al Watan	15/10/2007	killed in an ambush north of Baghdad that left his two security guards wounded. Dhi Abdul-Razak al-Dibo, a 32-year-old freelance reporter, was driving his BMW with his guards near Kirkuk
283	Abdullah, driver	Driver of RFE/RL correspondent	22/10/2007	Unidentified kidnappers killed the driver for Radio Free Iraq correspondent Jumana al-Obaidi when they seized the reporter on her way to a scheduled assignment at the Iraqi Environment Ministry on October 22. The radio service, which said the driver was h
284	Shehab Mohammed al-Hitti	Journalist Baghdad News	27/10/2007	his body was found in a northern district of the capital on 27 October 2007. He had been abducted the same day in al Jami’a in the east of Baghdad while on his way to work. He had worked for Baghdad News since 2003. He worked for several dailies, including al-Zaman and Babel under the previous regime
285	Mohamad Jawad Ali	technician of Biladi, satellite TV	5/12/2007	L’attentat à la voiture piégée qui visait, le 5 décembre 2007, une brigade de l’armée irakienne dans le quartier de Quarada au centre de Bagdad a coûté la vie à Mohamad Jawad Ali, 20 ans, étudiant à l’université technologique de Bagdad et également collaborateur technique de la chaîne satellitaire Biladi.
286	Ali Shafeya Al-Moussawi	Journalist - www.aliveinbaghdad.org	14/12/2007	Aged 23, Moussawi was found dead in his home in the northeast Baghdad district of Habibiya after an Iraqi military raid on his street. According to an autopsy, he was shot 31 times in the head and chest. Moussawi had working for several months on sensit
287	Alaa Abdul Karim Al-Fartoosi	journalist al-Forat TV, an Iraqi television station	30/01/2008	A roadside bomb killed a television journalist and a driver north of Baghdad. A correspondent and assistant cameraman were seriously wounded.
288	Alaa Assi	driver al-Forat TV, an Iraqi television station	30/01/2008	A roadside bomb killed a television journalist and a driver north of Baghdad. A correspondent and assistant cameraman were seriously wounded.
289	Hisham Mijawet Hamdan	board member of the Young Journalists Association	12/02/2008	Police discovered his body and took him to Al-Tib al-Adli morgue in Baghdad. Haidar Hasoun, founder and head of the association, said that the journalist, who exhibited signs of torture, was shot in the head and chest. Hamdan's family lost contact with him on Sunday morning when he went to buy stationery supplies from a Baghdad market. Hamdan was active in a campaign organized by the association less than two months ago in support of the families of journalists killed in Iraq and called on the Iraqi government and civil society organizations to do more to assist them. He was also part of a committee formed to collect financial contributions for the families of slain journalists.
290	Shihab al-Tamimi	independent journalist working for many local newspapers. He was known for his outspoken views against the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the continued presence of U.S. troops on Iraqi soil. He was also a stern critic of Iraq's sectarian violence.	27/02/2008	On Saturday, unidentified gunmen opened fire on Temimi in al-Wazieriya neighborhood, central Baghdad, while he was leaving the syndicate’s building to attend a cultural activity nearby, seriously wounding him. A celebrated Iraqi journalist, a septuagenarian Temimi has won the recent syndicate elections that were held in July 2003
291	Qassem Abdul Hussein al-Eqabi	head of public relations and distribution for the local political daily newspaper Al-Muwaten.	13/03/2008	father of five children, was shot by unknown gunmen while walking in Baghdad’s largely Shiite Karradah neighborhood
292	Ali Jassem al-Battat	cameraman working for the al-Nakhil TV channel	25/04/2008	killed by an unidentified gunman in the area of al-Qarna, 100 km north of Basra
293	Sirwa Abdul-Wahab	journalist working for the Baghdad-based Muraseloon news agency; she worked also for the Tikrit-based Salah al-Din TV channel.	4/05/2008	unknown gunmen opened fire on the journalist working for the Baghdad-based Muraseloon news agency while heading for work in al-Bakr neighborhood, eastern Mosul, killing her instantly,
294	Wisam Ali Ouda	Afaq television channel cameraman	22/05/2008	shot dead by U.S. soldiers in eastern Baghdad's Obaidi district at around 5pm on Wednesday, killed by an American sniper.
295	Haidar Hashim al-Husseini	journalist working for al-Sharq newspaper	22/05/2008	Police forces found in al-Tahrir neighborhood in central Baaquba, the body of Haydar Hussein. The dead man had been kidnapped a few days ago by an armed group in Bahraz district, south of Baaquba. The body bore signs of gunshot wounds to the head.
296	Mohey al-Din Abdel Hamid al-Naqeeb	presenter for the local Ninewa TV and Radio, affiliated to the Iraqi Media Network	17/06/2008	unidentified gunmen assassinated Mohey al-Din Abdel Hamid al-Naqeeb while he was leaving his house in al-Ziraie neighborhood, northern Mosul. He was on his way to the TV station,
297	Soran Mamah Hammah	Journalist working for Lafeen, a political magazine published in the Kurdish language from the northern city of Sulaimaniyah	21/07/2008	Gunmen shot him dead in the Kurdish Rasheedwa neighbourhood of the northern oil city of Kirkuk. Unknown armed men opened fire as he was stepping out of his home Monday. He was killed by four men who later escaped in a BMW car.
298	Musab al-Azawi	Journalist Al-Sharqiya TV, Mosul bureau chief	13/09/2008	The Al-Sharqiya TV crew was kidnapped by gunmen at midday while filming in the central Mosul neighbourhood of Al-Zenjili. Their bullet-riddled bodies were found in a nearby district later yesterday.
299	Ahmed Salem	Cameraman Al-Sharqiya TV	13/09/2008	The Al-Sharqiya TV crew was kidnapped by gunmen at midday while filming in the central Mosul neighbourhood of Al-Zenjili. Their bullet-riddled bodies were found in a nearby district later yesterday.
300	Ihab Maad	Cameraman Al-Sharqiya TV	13/09/2008	The Al-Sharqiya TV crew was kidnapped by gunmen at midday while filming in the central Mosul neighbourhood of Al-Zenjili. Their bullet-riddled bodies were found in a nearby district later yesterday.
301	Qaidar Suleiman	Driver Al-Sharqiya TV	13/09/2008	The Al-Sharqiya TV crew was kidnapped by gunmen at midday while filming in the central Mosul neighbourhood of Al-Zenjili. Their bullet-riddled bodies were found in a nearby district later yesterday.
302	Kamal Aziz Khdayir	Journalist	15/09/2008	journalist Kamal Aziz Khdayir killed by roadside bomb, Camp Sarah; 3 bodies found [source: IBC]
303	Dyar Abas Ahmed	correspondent with the independent online news site Eye Iraq	10/10/2008	Iraqi reporter Dyar Abas Ahmed was shot by unidentified gunmen in Kirkuk. Ahmed, a correspondent with the independent online news site Eye Iraq, was killed in Kirkuk, 137 miles (220 kilometers) north of Baghdad, according to Kirkuk Police.


	JOURNALISTS KILLED NON-IRAQI
Nr	Name	Nationality Media	Date
1	Frederic Nerac	Journalist, went missing in Iraq shortly after the U.S.-led invasion. A Foreign Ministry statement said Nerac died during a gun battle between Iraqi and U.S. soldiers, which took place when he was aboard an Iraqi vehicle. Bottom of Form	20/03/2003
2	Paul Moran	Australian ABC	22/03/2003	22.03.2003 - Paul Moran, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
3	Hussein Othman	Lebanese ITN	22/03/2003	22.03.2003 - Hussein Othman, translator, ITV News
4	Terry Lloyd	British ITN	23/03/2003	23.03.2003 - Terry Lloyd, ITV News
5	Kaveh Golestan	Iranian BBC - news photographer	2/04/2003	02.04.2003 - Kaveh Golestan , BBC
6	Michael Kelly	American Washington Post	4/04/2003	04.04.2003 - Michael Kelly , Washington Post
7	Christian Liebig	German Focus	7/04/2003	07.04.2003 - Christian Liebig, Focus
8	Julio Anguita Parrado	Spanish El Mundo	7/04/2003	07.04.2003 - Julio Anguita Parrado, El Mundo
9	Tarek Ayoub	Jordanian Al-Jazeera	8/04/2003	08.04.2003 - Tarek Ayoub, Al Jazeera
10	Taras Protsyuk	Ukrainian Reuters	8/04/2003	08.04.2003 - Taras Protsyuk, Reuters
11	José Couso	Spanish Telecinco	8/04/2003	08.04.2003 - José Couso, Tele 5
12	Richard Wild	British freelance television cameraman, shot dead at point blank range in central Baghdad street.	5/07/2003
13	Jeremy Little	American NBC - Sound engineer	7/07/2003	07.07.2003 - Jeremy Little, sound engineer, NBC
14	Mazen Dana	Palestinian Reuters	17/08/2003	17.08.2003 - Mazen Dana, Reuters
15	Waldemar Milewicz	Polish TVP	7/05/2004	07.05.2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, TVP
16	Mounir Bouamrane	Algerian TVP	7/05/2004	07.05.2004 - Mounir Bouamrane, TVP
17	Kotaro Ogawa	Japanese Freelance	27/05/2004	27.05.2004 - Kotaro Ogawa, Nikkan Gendai
18	Shinsuke Hashida	Japanese Freelance	27/05/2004	27.05.2004 - Shinsuke Hashida, Nikkan Gendai
19	Enzo Baldoni	Italian Diario della Settimana	26/08/2004	26.08.2004 - Enzo Baldoni, Diario della settimana
20	Mazen al-ToMayzi	Palestinian Al-Arabiya	12/09/2004	Palestinian journalist Mazen al-Tomaizi, who worked for the pan-Arab TV news station Al-Arabiya and the Saudi TV station Al-Ekhbariya, was reporting live on Al-Ekhbariya at the scene of a burning Bradley fighting vehicle on 12 September 2004 in Baghdad when he was hit by the impact of a missile fired from a US helicopter.
21	Steven Vincent	American Freelance	2/08/2005	02.08.2005 - Steven Vincent, freelance journalist
22	James Brolan	Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42. were among four people killed when a car bomb hit a U.S. military patrol in Baghdad on Monday	29/05/2006
23	Paul Douglas	Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42. were among four people killed when a car bomb hit a U.S. military patrol in Baghdad on Monday	29/05/2006
24	Dmitry Chebotaryov	news photographer of PhotoXPress Dmitry Chebotaryov had been killed in the province of Diyala on Sunday, when a U.S. car convoy hit a ground bomb.	6/05/2007


	JOURNALISTS WHO DIED OF NON-VIOLENT CAUSES
1	Gaby Rado	correspondent for Channel 4 News, Britain, died after apparently falling from a hotel roof in northern Iraq.	30/03/2003
2	David Bloom	Reporter of NBC News died from an apparent blood clot while covering the war south of Baghdad.	6/04/2003
3	Veronica Cabrera	Argentine freelance camerawoman, died of injuries from a car crash outside the Iraqi capital, which instantly killed Mario Podesta, an Argentine television reporter	8/04/2003
4	Mario Podesta	Argentine freelance journalist, died in a car crash near Baghdad. Podesta was travelling in a convoy of press vehicles some 80 kilometres (50 miles) from Baghdad when the accident happened.	14/04/2003
5	Elizabeth Neuffer	a reporter for The Boston Globe, died after the car in which she was a passenger apparently struck a guardrail near the town of Samarra, about halfway between Baghdad and Tikrit.	8/05/2003
6	Mark Fineman	Los Angeles Times correspondent for 17 years, died of a heart attack on Sept. 23 while waiting to interview a member of the Iraqi Governing Council in Baghdad.	23/09/2003	had won or shared a number of journalism honors, including a George Polk Award, a National Headliner Award and an Overseas Press Club Award. He had worked for newspapers in Chicago and Philadelphia before joining the Times.



	Killed Media Professionals of Iraqi Nationality			Not reported: -- violent deaths
	Journalist, reporter	178		Not reported: -- violent deaths
	Cameraman	26		Not reported: -- violent deaths
	Photographer	6		Not reported: -- violent deaths
	Administrative	38	(incl. staff employees, directors, producers ….)
	Translator	12		Not reported: -- violent deaths \| NEWSEUM
	Driver	17		Not reported: -- violent deaths \| IBC
	Security guard	12
	Technician (incl. soundman)	14	Killed Media Professionals of Iraqi Nationality

	Non-Iraqi Media Professionals, killed in Iraq,	24	Media Professionals of non-Iraqi Nationality who died in Iraq of non violent causes

	Total Media professionals killed in the Iraq war:	327
				MALE
	Total Media professionals who died in the Iraq war:	333		FEMALE

	Iraq war deadliest conflict in history for media professionals.
	Year	Iraqi media workers killed	Non Iraqi	Total
	2003	6	20	26
	2004	53	6	59
	2005	58	1	59
	2006	88	2	90
	2007	81	1	82
	2008	17	0	17
	Total:	303	30	333

		Average age:		36,52 years
		List updated:		25/11/2008 19:25

	KIDNAPPED JOURNALISTS
Nr	Name	Nationality Media	Date	Current situation
1	Carlos Raleiras	Portuguese TSF	14/11/2003	Freed
2	John Burns	Photographer NYT	6/04/2004	Freed
3	Jeffrey Gettleman	New York Times	7/04/2004	Freed
4	Lynsey Addario	Freelance	7/04/2004	Freed
5	Soichiro Koriyama	Japanese Shukan Asahi	8/04/2004	Freed
6	Stephen Farrell	The Times-UK	6/04/2004	Freed
7	Ivan Cerieix	French Capa	11/04/2004	Freed
8	Alexandre Jordanov	French Capa	11/04/2004	Freed
9	Junpei Yasuda	Japanese Tokyo Shimbun	14/04/2004	Freed
10	Michal Kubal	Czech TV	11/04/2004	Freed
11	Petr Klima	Czech TV	11/04/2004	Freed
12	Vit Pohanka	Czech Radio	11/04/2004	Freed
13	Jérome Bony	French France 2	26/05/2004	Freed
14	Jean-François Renoux	French France 2	26/05/2004	Freed
15	Eric Giet	French France 2	26/05/2004	Freed
16	James Brandon	British Sunday Telegraph	12/08/2004	Freed
17	Micah Garen	American Four Corners Media	14/08/2004	Freed
18	Christian Chesnot	French RFI	20/08/2004	Freed
19	Georges Malbrunot	French Le Figaro	20/08/2004	Freed
20	Mohamed Al-Joundi	Syrian RFI/ Le Figaro	20/08/2004	Freed
21	Ammar Daham	Iraqi AFP	4/09/2004	Freed
22	Scott Taylor	Canadian Esprit de corps	8/09/2004	Freed
23	Zeynep Tugrul	Turkish Sabah	8/09/2004	Freed
24	Paul Taggart	American World Picture News	10/10/2004	Freed
25	John Martinkus	Australian SBS	16/10/2004	Freed
26	Corentin Fleury	French Freelance	24/10/2004	Freed
27	Raad Al-Azzawi	Iraqi Sada Wasit	26/11/2004	Freed
28	Florence Aubenas	French Libération	5/01/2005	Freed
29	Hussein Hanoun al- Saadi	Iraqi Libération	5/01/2005	Freed
30	Giuliana Sgrena	Italian Il Manifesto	4/02/2005	Freed
31	Meutya Hafid	Indonesian Metro TV	15/02/2005	Freed
32	Budiyanto	Indonesian Metro TV	15/02/2005	Freed
33	Marie-Jeanne Ion	Romanian Prima TV	28/03/2005	Freed
34	Sorin Dumitru Miscoci	Romanian Prima TV	28/03/2005	Freed
35	Eduard Ovidiu Ohanesian	Romanian Romania Libera	28/03/2005	Freed
36	Rory Carroll	British The Guardian	19/10/2005	Freed
37	Phil Sands	Freelance	26/12/2006	Freed
38	Jill Carroll	American Christian Science Monitor	7/01/2006	Freed
39	Phil Sands	British Emirates Today	26/12/2005	Freed
40	Reem Zeid	Iraqi Sumariya TV	1/02/2006	Held
41	Marwan Khazaal	Iraqi Sumariya TV	1/02/2006	Held
42	Ali Fayyad	As-Saffir	16/03/2006	Fate unknown
43	Salah Jali al-Gharraoui	AFP, accountant	4/04/2006	Fate unknown
44	Laith al-Dulaimi	Al-Nahrain	8/05/2006	Found murdered
45	Bilal Taleb Abdelrahman al-Obeidi	Agence France-Presse	14/08/2006	Fate unknown
46	Saif Abdul Jabbar Al-Tamimi	editor for Al-Akhaa’ newspaper, abducted in the Adil district, west of Baghdad.	15/08/2006	Fate unknown
47	Ahmed Mutair Abbas	managing editor of the now-defunct daily Sada Wasit	3/09/2006	Fate unknown
48	Ahmed Al-Mutair	editor-in-chief of Sada Wasit newspaper, abducted while he was on his way to Baghdad from Kut to attend a court session in which he was charged of defaming and slandering the local government of Wasit,	8/09/2006	He was released two weeks later after suffering torture.
49	Kalchan Al-Bayati	freelance contributor to the Al-Hayat daily newspaper	11/09/2006	Freed
Twelve journalists were arrested while covering peaceful demonstrations in the Sulaimaniya region (in the Kurdish north) in August, and in some cases they were held for several hours and their photographic equipment was destroyed. An Associated Press correspondent was also banned from covering these demonstrations. (12/09/2006)
50	Mohammed Abdul Rahman	newscaster for Radio Dijlah, abducted in the Mansour district, west of Baghdad.	8/10/2006	found killed 12/10/2006
51	Ali Karim	editor-in-chief of the weekly Nabdh Al-Shabab magazine, abducted in the Amin district, east of Baghdad, while heading to work.	11/10/2006	Released later after paying a ransom of $50 thousand.
52	Samir Ali Saud	deputy managing editor at the Sada Baghdad newspaper, abducted in the Zayouna district, east of Baghdad.	25/12/2006	Freed
53	Akil Adnan Majid	the accountant of the daily Al Sabah, was kidnapped outside the newspaper’s premises in Baghdad	9/01/2007	Fate unknown.
54	Sabri Al Rubaiï	abducted from his home in Washash, west of Baghdad. His fate is still unclear	10/01/2007	Fate unknown.
55	Ihab Mohammed	Al-Hurra, employee	14/02/2007	Fate unknown.
56	Fallah Hashim	Abducted by dunmen in Iraqi Army uniforms in Kirkuk . He is still missing	3/03/2007	Fate unknown.
57	Karim Himayim	reporter for Radio Dijlah, and his driver are abducted in the Jami'a district	17/03/2007	Fate unknown.
58	Thamir Sabri	reporter for Radio Dijlah, and his driver are abducted in the Jami'a district	18/03/2007	Fate unknown.
	Baghdad, May 11, (VOI) – Iraqi journalist Jamal al-Atabi said the U.S. forces released his son Furat al-Atabi, a layout designer in the Iraqi newspaper al-Sabah, on Friday after three months in detention. "Iraqi Member of Parliament Mathal al-Alusi had several contacts with the U.S. forces for the release of my son, detained since February 2007, without any charges," Atabi told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI)."Iraqi Member of Parliament Mathal al-Alusi had several contacts with the U.S. forces for the release of my son, detained since February 2007, without any charges," Atabi told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).The U.S. forces had arrested Atabi on February 20, 2007 when they raided his house in Tunis neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. http://www.aswataliraq.info/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=44010&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
	reporter and a cameraman working for Al-Baghdadiya TV were kidnapped in Ba’qouba, northeast of Baghdad, April 20, 2007. They were released two days later.
59	Salam Duhi al-Sudani	abducted in the al-Latifiya area while he was en route to Karbala on the ninth of this month. He is in his early 50s and has presided over several daily and weekly newspapers, and he is a member of the Iraqi Journalists’ Syndicate.	9/05/2007	Fate unknown.
60	Fleh Dway Megthab	Unknown gunmen kidnapped on Wednesday morning the Editor-in-Chief of al-Sabah newspaper, Fleh Dway Megthab, while leaving his house in al-Habebiya neighborhood in eastern Baghdad	13/06/2007	Found murdered 17/06/2007
61	Majdi Al-Rassam	Gunmen abducted Majdi Al-Rassam, a correspondent for Al-Mada newspaper, near Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad	14/06/2007	Fate unknown
62	Talal Mohammed	Associated Press journalist kidnapped near Baqouba	28/07/2007	Fate unknown
63	Butler Richard and his interpreter	CBS journalist and Iraqi interpreter kidnapped from Basra hotel	10/02/2008	Freed



The first part of this list was published in Al-Zawra' newspaper (the IJU paper) no.469 on Thursday May 4, 2006, in Arabic
	Additional sources:	http://www.rsf.org/special_iraq_en.php3
		http://icasualties.org/oif/journalist.aspx
		http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/Iraq/Iraq_danger.html
		http://www.newssafety.com/casualties/iraq.htm
		http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/222
		http://www.newseum.org/scripts/Journalist/peril.asp
		http://www.ifj.org/pdfs/JournalistsKilled2007finalweb.pdf
		http://www.ifj.org/assets/docs/101/215/48f5565-778f0d7.pdf


Arrests and other violations:
The Iraqi police assaulted and held several reporters and correspondents for Iraqi newspapers and television stations in Samarra during their coverage of a car bombing, May 5, 2006. They were released four hours later after their tapes and notebooks were
A Major Crimes Unit patrol assaulted Ali Al-Yassi, a reporter for Al-Hurra TV, at Arasat Al-Hindiya in Baghdad, July 31, 2006.
Peshmerga forces assaulted and detained several journalists at Suleimaniya in the Kurdish autonomous region while they were covering demonstrations in the towns of Darbandikhan, Kifri, Chamchamal, Shoresh and Karmian, August 5-13, 2006. The reporters who were detained for several hours are as follows:
- Yassin Mustafa, a reporter for Zagros TV.
- Aso Ali, a reporter for Kha Lek newspaper.
- Tahir Tawfiq, a reporter for Tche Qam newspaper.
- Koja Tahir.
- Sherko Shwann.
- Hadi Mohammed, a reporter for Azadi TV, in Darbandikhan.
- Himen Baban, a reporter for Hawlati newspaper, in Kifri.
- Farbad Hassan, a reporter for Hawlati newspaper, in Darbandikhan.
- Rahman Gharib, a report for Azadi TV, in Darbandikhan.
- Ali Hama Salih, a reporter for Hawlati newspaper, in Darbandikhan.
- Jeza Mohammed, a reporter for Awbene newspaper, in Darbandikhan.
- Yahya Amhed, a reporter for the Associated Press, in Darbandikhan.
Nawa Shoresh Ra’uf, a reporter for Kurdistani newspaper, in Shoresh.
The Basrah Governorate Council passes a law to prosecute any media organization that publishes any news report related to events in the governorate without referring to local authorities and security forces in the governorate, even if the reporters in question are eyewitnesses to an event, August 25, 2006.
A car bomb targets the Al-Sabah newspaper building in the Waziriya district, north of Baghdad, August 27, 2006.
Jabbar Tarrad Al-Shammari, deputy director of the Iraqi Journalists Union, and Abdullah Al-Lami, former director of the union, survive an assassination attempt with a roadside bomb targeting their vehicle, August 30, 2006.
Sadiq Na’eem Al-Sagheer, editor-in-chief of the weekly Al-Khat Al-Sakhin newspaper, is detained by a joint U.S.-Iraqi force that stormed into his residence, August 31, 2006.
Amir Al-Akayshi, a reporter for the Al-Mada newspaper, is assaulted by Iraqi security forces from the Dhu Al-Fiqar Brigade, while covering the visit of PM Nuri Al-Maliki to Najaf, September 2, 2006.
The Iraqi government issues an order to close the Baghdad bureau of Al-Arabiya TV, September 9, 2006.
Golshan Al-Bayyati, a reporter for Al-Hayat newspaper, is detained by a joint U.S.-Iraqi force in Tikrit, and her computer and documents confiscated, September 12, 2006.
Golshan Al-Bayyati is detained again by Iraqi Army troops after she attempts to retrieve her computer, September 16, 2006.
MP Mohammed Al-Daini, of the Iraqi National Dialogue Front, threatens several reporters for the state-run Al-Iraqiya TV with “elimination,” September 30, 2006. Al-Daini is seen on a recording of the parliamentary session shouting, “Your concrete blocks in front of your building won’t protect you.”
Unknown assailants break into the Maysan newspaper and Maysan Journalists Union building in Amara, south of Iraq, and all possessions, documents and records are either stolen or destroyed, October 10, 2006.
Iraqi Parliament issues a recommendation to the Council of Ministers to shut down the Az-Zaman newspaper and Al-Sharqiya TV, October 18, 2006. The statement accused the two media outlets, owned by media mogul Sa’ad Al-Bazzaz, of fueling sectarian tensions in the country and threatening national security.
Iraqi security forces close the bureaus of Al-Zawra’ TV and Salah Al-Din TV after they broadcast images of demonstrations in Tikrit against the execution order of former President Saddam Hussein, November 6, 2006. Iraqi Parliament had called for closing Al-Zawra’ TV in the past, citing its “lack of objectivity and professionalism.”
Unknown gunmen attack the residence of journalist Ali Al-Hijjiya at the Tahrir district in Ba’quba, northeast of Baghdad, and set it on fire, November 11, 2006.
The Ninewa Governorate Council issues an order to close the Al-Mujtama’ Al-Madani (Civil Society) newspaper in Mosul after it published a political cartoon that the council deemed “insulting” to PM Nuri Al-Maliki, November 15, 2006. The mayor of Mosul condemns the order and refuses to implement it.
The editor-in-chief of the Kurdish Hawlati newspaper says his newspaper is being pressured by officials in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) to reveal its sources for a story published in the newspaper about the resignation of several PUK officials, November 19, 2006.
Iraqi Parliament bans Iraqi journalists from entering the Convention Center and covering parliamentary sessions, December 12, 2006. Several members of the parliamentary committee on national security accuse journalists of “inciting violence.”
Omar Mohammed, a reporter for Al-Hurra TV, escapes an assassination attempt while leaving his workplace at the Bab Al-Sharji area of central Baghdad, December 12, 2006.
Iraqi police detain Saman Fakhri, a correspondent for Al-Alam TV, and cameraman Sinan Ismael while covering an explosion at the Al-Quriya area in Kirkuk, north of Iraq, January 18, 2007. On the same day, another Al-Alam TV reporter is detained by British troops in Basrah, southern Iraq, for the same reason.
Uday Al-Mukhtar, a correspondent for Al-Diyar TV, escapes an assassination attempt in Amara, southern Iraq, January 30, 2007.
U.S. troops storm into the Iraqi Journalists Union building in central Baghdad, confiscate all computers and documents and destroy the office’s possessions and furniture, February 21, 2007.
U.S. troops storm into the headquarters of Al-Da’wa newspaper in the Waziriya district of Baghdad and detain all occupants of the building, February 23, 2007. Female employees said they were held in a separate room, interrogated and photographed by U.S. troops.
U.S. troops storm into the residence of journalist Furat Al-Atabi in the Zayouna district, east of Baghdad, and assault him in front of his wife and children, March 5, 2007. Al-Atabi is detained and his documents and computer confiscated.
Iraqi security forces detain Hussein Yassin Rashid, a reporter for Al-Hurriya TV, and his cameraman Adnan Hassib while covering an event at the Council of Ministers inside the Green Zone, March 20, 2007.
Majid Al-Buraikan, a reporter for Radio Sawa, escapes an assassination attempt when unknown gunmen on a motorcyle opened fire against him while he was leaving his residence at the Tuwaisa district in Basrah, March 31, 2007.
The Baghdad TV and Dar Al-Salam Radio compound in the Jami’a district, west of Baghdad, is attacked by a suicide bomber driving a garbage truck, April 4, 2007. Tha’er Ahmed Jabr, deputy manager of Baghdad TV, is killed and 12 other workers are seriously wounded in the bombing.
Several journalists in Diwaniya, south of Iraq, say they were banned from covering events in the city except through press conferences, April 12, 2007. Joint U.S.-Iraqi forces had opened fire against a reporter for Al-Sabah newspaper, while a reporter for Al-Furat TV was detained for several hours.
Peshmerga forces storm into the headquarters of Al-Fayhaa’ TV at Suleimaniya in the Kurdish autonomous region and detain its employees for 24 hours without an arrest warrant, April 23, 2007. Al-Fayhaa’ TV Director Mohammed Al-Ta’I told JFOI that ten employees were severely beaten by Peshmerga forces and that their possessions and equipment were destroyed in the raid. Kurdish security authorities denied any knowledge of the raid.
Hassan Shaheed Al-Azzawi, a reporter for Al-Sabah newspaper, is brought to court in Kut, southern Iraq, after he is detained for two days on charges of slandering the former governorate council chairman in a news story published 18 months ago, April 30, 2007. Al-Azzawi told JFOI that he wrote his story based on a press statement he obtained officially from the Wasit Governorate Council in October 2005.
Radio presenter Amal Al-Mudarres is severely wounded in an assassination attempt west of Baghdad, April 30, 2007
Al-Iraqiya director general Habib al-Sadr told AFP last month that at least 75 members of his staff have been killed since he took over the channel in 2005 and another 68 wounded. (20 Sept. 2007). We list only about 1/3rd of this number of the Al Iraqiya staff as killed.
18 Oct 2007: Call for release of AP photographer Bilal Hussein, held by US army for 18 months