www.brusselstribunal.org/JournalistKilled.htm ASSASSINATED IRAQI MEDIA PROFESSIONALS   Reported by    
Nr Name Profession Date Incident Age Gender Source CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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  25 M 06.04.2003 - Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, translator, BBC CPJ RSF INSI ICAS Unreported Unreported
2 Unknown interpreter Iraqi interpreter working for Malaysian journalists 12/04/2003 killed when gunmen ambushed and kidnapped the group in Baghdad.   M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
3 Waleed Khalifa Hassan Al-Dulami Elisabeth Neuffer's translator 9/05/2003 died in the accident where Elisabeth Neuffer died, near Samarra.   M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
4 Aqeel Mohammad Rasheed Al-Janabi editor in chief of Al-Faiha newspaper 24/06/2003 killed by knife stabs in his town Hilla   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
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. 
  M 02.07.2003 - Ahmad Karim, Kurdistan Satellite TV CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
6 Ahmad Shawkat editor in Bila-Itijah weekly 28/10/2003 killed by two armed men who raided his house and shot him   M 28.10.2003 - Ahmed Shawkat, Bila Ittijah CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
7 Doraid Issa Mohamad translator and producer in CCN 27/01/2004 shot in an ambush in Baghdad outskirts 27 M 27.01.2004 - Duraid Isa Mohammed, producer and translator, CNN CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
8 Yassir Khattab driver with CNN 27/01/2004 shot in an ambush in Baghdad outskirts 25 M 27.01.2004 - Yasser Khatab, driver, CNN CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
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   M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
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   M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
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   M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
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   M   CPJ Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
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   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM Unreported
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   M   Unreported RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   Unreported RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
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   M   Unreported RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   CPJ RSF Unreported ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
21 Mahmood Awad Hamadi Al-Jazeera newspaper editor-in-Chief 2/03/2004 killed by the American troops in Falluja 33 M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   CPJ Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
23 Majeed Rasheed technician in IMN  18/03/2004 shot by armed men in Diyala (Baquba)   M 18.03.2004 - Majid Rachid, technician, Diyala Television CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
24 Mohamad Ahmad Sarhan Security agent with IMN 18/03/2004 shot by armed men in Diyala (Baquba)   M 18.03.2004 - Mohamad Ahmad, security agent, Diyala Television Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
25 Ali Abdul Azziz cameraman, Al-Arabiya Satellite  18/03/2004 shot by the American troops 35 M 18.03.2004 - Ali Abdel Aziz, Al-Arabiya CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
26 Ali Al-Khateeb Al-Arabiya correspondent 18/03/2004 shot by the American troops in Baghdad 32 M 18.03.2004 - Ali Al-Khatib, Al-Arabiya CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
27 Nadia Nasrat announcer in the Iraqi Media Net  18/03/2004 shot by armed men in Diyala (Baquba)   F 18.03.2004 - Nadia Nasrat, Diyala Television CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
28 Burhan Mohamad Mazhoor cameraman, ABC  26/03/2004 shot by the American troops in Falluja 34 M 26.03.2004 - Bourhan Mohammad al-Louhaybi , ABC News CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
29 Omar Hashim Kamil reporter, Time magazine  26/03/2004 shot by armed men in Baghdad   M 26.03.2004 - Omar Hashim Kamal, translator, Time CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
30 As'ad Kadim Iraqiya TV reporter  19/04/2004 shot by the American troops In Samarra, with his driver   M 19.04.2004 - Assad Kadhim, Al-Iraqiya TV CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
31 Husein Salih driver, Al-Iraqiya  19/04/2004 shot by the American troops in Samarra    M 29.04.2004 - Hussein Saleh, driver, Al-Iraquiya TV CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
32 Rasheed Hamid Wali cameraman in Al-Jazeera news channel  21/05/2004 shot by unknown fire source, in Karbala   M 21.05.2004 - Rachid Hamid Wali, cameraman assistant, Al-Jazira CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
33 Unknown Translator 25/05/2004     M 25.05.2004 - Unknown, translator Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M 27.05.2004 - Muhammad Aldin, translator, Le Soir CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
35 Mahmood Ismael Dawood reporter, Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed newspaper 29/05/2004 shot by armed men in Baghdad   M 29.05.2004 - Mahmoud Ismael Daood, bodyguard, Al-Sabah al-Jadid CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
36 Samiya Abd al-Jabir administrator and technician, Al-Sabah Al-Jadeed 29/05/2004  shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad    F 29.05.2004 - Samia Abdeljabar, driver, Al-Sabah al-Jadid CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   F 03.06.2004 - Sahar Saad Eddine Nouami, Al-Mizan, Al-Khaima, Al-Hayat Al-Gadida CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
38 Abdel Karim Jassem technician of Al-Iraqiya TV station 12/06/2004 Killed in Al Qaim [source: IBC]   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
39 Jawad Kassem Hamadi driver of Al-Iraqiya TV station 12/06/2004 Killed in Al Qaim [source: IBC]   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
40 Husam Ali freelance cameraman  15/08/2004 killed in Falluja by unknown armed men   M 15.08.2004 - Hossam Ali, freelance Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
41 Mahmood Hamid Abbass cameraman, German TV  15/08/2004 shot by unknown armed men in Fallujah 32 M 15.08.2004 - Mahmoud Hamid Abbas, ZDF CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
42 Isam Hadi Muhsin Al-Shumary Cameraman Südost Media 15/08/2004 Still missing, probably killed   M http://www.rsf.org/special_iraq_en.php3  CPJ RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
44 Jamal Tafeeq Salman photographer, Gazeta Wyborcza August 25, 2004 25/08/2004 shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad    M 25.08.2004 - Jamal Tawfiq Salmane, Gazeta Wyborcza Unreported RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   CPJ Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
46 Ismael Tahir Mohsin reporter for AP  2/09/2004 shot near his house by unknown armed men   M 02.09.2004 - Ismaïl Taher Mohsin, Associated Press CPJ RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
47 Ahmad Jasim reporter, Al-Iraqiya  7/10/2004 shot by unknown armed men   M 7.10.2004 - Ahmad Jassem, Nivive television CPJ RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
48 Dina Mohamad Hassan reporter to Al-Huriya TV 14/10/2004 killed in Adhamiya by armed men 38 F 14.10.2004 - Dina Mohamad Hassan, Al Hurriya Television CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
49 Karam Hussein photographer  14/10/2004 Pressphoto, killed in Mosul   M 14.10.2004 - Karam Hussein, European Pressphoto Agency CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
50 Liqa' Abdul Razzaq newsreader in Al-Sharqiya TV  27/10/2004 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad   F 27.10.2004 - Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, Al-Sharqiya CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
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.    M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
52 Nasralla Al-Dawoodi editor-in-chief of Al-Iraq Daily  30/10/2004 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad 55 M   Unreported Unreported Unreported ICAS Unreported IBC
53 Ali Adnan technician, Al-Arabiya  30/10/2004 car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office   M   CPJ Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
54 Hassan Alwan Al Dehlegi Al-Arabiya  30/10/2004 car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office 30 M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
55 Nabeel hassan Al-Arabiya  30/10/2004 car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office   M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
56 Ramziya Moushi Al-Arabiya  30/10/2004 car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office   F   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
57 Alahin Hussein Al-Arabiya  30/10/2004 car bomb targeted Al-Arabiya office   F   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
58 Wadallah Sarhan editor-in-chief Akhbar Al-Mosul 1/11/2004 killed by unknown armed men near his home   M   CPJ Unreported Unreported ICAS Unreported Unreported
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 47 M 01.11.2004 - Dhia Najim, Reuters CPJ RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
60 Maisoon Abdul Hafidh editing designer, in Al-Jumhoriya newspaper  10/01/2005 killed near her office in Baghdad   F   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
61 Muayd Sámi editor-in-chief of the Parliament news paper in Baquba  13/01/2005 killed by unknown armed men   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
62 Ali Dhia Hassan reporter in al-Nahdha newspaper  16/01/2005 shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad 27 M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
63 Huda Dhia Hassan Ali Dhia Hassan's sister, reporter in Nahdha newspaper  16/01/2005 shot by unknown armed men in Baghdad    F   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
64 Fadhil Hussein Al-Khafaji reporter in Al-Da'wa newspaper  30/01/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
65 Dawod Qassim reporter, The German Radio  4/02/2005 killed with his wife and father by unknown armed men in Baghdad   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
66 Abdul Hussein el-Fayath Al-Hurra satellite channel reporter 9/02/2005 killed with his son,3, by unknown armed men in Basra 40 M 09.02.2005 - Abdel Hussein Khazaal, Al-Hurra TV CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   CPJ Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
69 Raida Al-Wazzan announcer in Al-Iraqiya satellite TV  28/02/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 35 F 25.02.2005 - Raeda Mohammed Wageh Wazzan, Iraqiya CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
70 Laiq Ibrahim reporter in Kurdistan radio  10/03/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Kerkuk   M 10.03.2005 - Laik Ibrahim, Kurdistan-TV CPJ RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
71 Husan Hilal Sarsam cameraman in Kurdistan TV  14/03/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 27 M 14.03.2005 - Houssam Hilal Sarsam, Kurdistan-TV CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
72 Ali Ibrahim Issa cameraman, Al-Hurriya TV  14/04/2005 killed in an explosion near the interior ministry in Baghdad   M 14.04.2005 - Ali Abrahim Aissa, Al-Hurriya TV CPJ RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
73 Fadhil Hazim Fadhil Al-Hurriya TV reporter   14/04/2005 killed in an explosion near the interior ministry in Baghdad 35 M 14.04.2005 - Fadel Hazem Fadel, Al-Hurriya TV CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
74 Ahmad Abdul Jabbar Hashim reporter in Al-Sabah Daily  1/04/2005 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men   M 01.04.2005 - Ahmed Jabbar Hashim, Al Sabah CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M 15.04.2005 - Shamal Abdallah Assad, Kirkuk TV, Kurdsat CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   CPJ Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
78 Salih Ibrahim AP reporter  23/04/2005 killed in an explosion targeting the American troops in Baghdad   M 23.04.2005 - Saleh Ibrahim, Associated Press CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
79 Najat Mohamad Karim administrator, in Dijla radio  26/04/2005 targeted by a sniper in his office in Baghdad   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
80 Qasim Mohamad guard, Dijla radio 26/04/2005 targeted by a sniper in his office in Baghdad   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
81 Ahmad Adam Mostafa journalist and writer in Al-Mada Daily  15/05/2005 slaughtered by unknown armed men in Yousfiya   M 15.05.2005 - Ahmad Adam, Al-Madaa and Sabah CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
82 Ali Jassem Al Rumi freelance reporter 15/05/2005 slaughtered by unknown armed men in Yousfiya   M   Unreported Unreported INSI ICAS   Unreported
83 Najim Abid Khudheir freelance reporter 15/05/2005 slaughtered by unknown armed men in Yousfiya   M 15.05.2005 - Najem Abed Khodair, Al-Madaa and Tariq al-Shaab CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
84 Jerges Mohammed Sultan journalist of Al-Iraqiya 31/05/2005 killed near his house by unknown armed men   M   CPJ Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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]   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported 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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
88 Jasim Al-Qaissi reporter in Al-Siyada newspaper  22/06/2005 killed in his car with his son north of Baghdad   M 22.06.2005 - Jassim Al Qais, Al Siyada Unreported RSF INSI ICAS Unreported Unreported
89 Jasim Al-Sheikhly freelance journalist  22/06/2005 killed by unknown armed men   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
90 Maha Ibrahim editor-in-chief, Baghdad TV  26/06/2005 shot by the American troops in Baghdad   F 03.07.2005 - Maha Ibrahim, Baghdad TV CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
91 Ahmad Wa'il Al-bakri TV director in Al-Sharqiya TV 28/06/2005 shot by the American troops in Baghdad   M 28.06.2005 - Wael Al Bakri, Al Charkiyah CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
92 Yassir Al-Salihi reporter to an American media group Night Ridder 30/06/2005 shot in his car by the American troops 30 M 22.06.2005 - Yasser Al Salihy, Knight Ridder Unreported RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
93 Hadi Hassan Al-Shamari editing secretary Biladi magazine  1/07/2005 killed by unknown armed men   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
94 Khalid Sabih Al-Attar producer and presenter in Al-Iraqiya TV  1/07/2005 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 43 M 01.07.2005 - Khaled Sabih al Attar, al-Iraqia CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
95 Haider Karim Azawi INNA journalist  2/07/2005 Journalist shot dead by US forces in Baghdad [source: IBC]   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported 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   M 23.07.2005 - Adnan Al Bayati, Rai, Mediaset, TG3 and Panorama CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
97 Nouriya Itais translator of Steven Vincent 2/08/2005 kidnapped and shot down by unknown armed men   F   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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 31 M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
100 Zaid Mohamad Salloom Al-Zubaidi driver in Al-Hurra news channel  12/08/2005 killed by unknown armed men south of Baghdad   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
101 Rafed Al Rubaii Al Irakiya 27/08/2005     M 27.08.2005 - Rafed Al Rubaii, Al Irakiya Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
102 Rafid Mahmood Said al-Anbagy radio presenter in Diyala, IMN  27/08/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Al-Gatoon area   M   CPJ Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
103 Raed Mahmud TV director/journalist in Baquba 27/08/2005 Shot down in Baquba [source: IBC]   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported 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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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 35 M 28.08.2005 - Waleed Khaled, Reuters TV CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
106 Firas Al-Ma'adhidi Al-Safeer newspaper reporter  16/09/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Mosul  40 M 21.09.2005 - Firas Al-Maadhidi, Al-Safir CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
107 Sabah Mohssin Al-Iraqiya 17/09/2005     M 17.09.2005 - Sabah Mohssin, Al-Iraqiya  Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
108 Haydar Fakhir Al-Tamimi New York Times reporter and director of Al-Mirbad News Channel  19/09/2005 kidnapped and killed in Basra 38 M 19.09.2005 - Fakher Haydar Al-Tamimi, New York Times CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
109 Hind Ismael Al-Safeer newspaper reporter in Mosul  20/09/2005 killed by unknown armed men 28 F 20.09.2005 - Hind Ismail, Al-Safir CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
110 Ahlam Yousif Tv engineer, Al-Iraqiya TV  22/09/2005 killed in Mosul by unknown armed men   F 21.09.05 - Ahlam Youssef , Al-Iraqiya TV  CPJ RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
111 Bassem al-Fadli manager of Al-Iraqiya TV station 22/09/2005 killed in Mosul by unknown armed men   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported ICAS Unreported Unreported
112 Sabah Salmane journalist 1/09/2005 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22998   M   Unreported RSF Unreported ICAS Unreported Unreported
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 37 M 19.10.2005 - Mohamed Haroun, Union of Iraqi Journalists general secretary CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
114 Ahmad Hussein Al-Maliki reporter in Tallafar newspaper  7/11/2005 kidnapped for two months then killed by unknown armed men in Musol   M 07.11.2005 - Ahmed Hussein Al Maliki, Tall Afar CPJ RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
115 Akeel Abdul Ridha Al-Iraqiya 28/11/2005 killed by unknown armed men 55 M 28.11.2005 - Akeel Abdul Rwdha, AL-Iraqia Unreported RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
116 Muqdad Muhsin Al-Iraqiya 28/11/2005 killed by unknown armed men   M   Unreported Unreported INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
117 Abdul Salaam Ahmad reporter in Al-Soumariya TV  10/12/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad    M   Unreported RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
118 Khalid Muhammad Al-Iraqiyah TV station employee 27/12/2005 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
119 Alan Anoi translator, Christian Science Monitor 7/01/2006 killed when the American journalist Jill Carol was kidnapped in Baghdad 33 M 10.01.2006 - Allan Enwiyah, American journalist Jill Carroll’s interpreter CPJ Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
120 Sarmad Salman freelance sports reporter  10/01/2006 kidnapped and killed by armed men in Baghdad   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
121 Mahmood Za'al reporter  Baghdad TV  14/01/2006 killed by the American troops in Khaldiya 35 M 25.01.2006 - Mahmoud Zaal, Television cameraman at Baghdad TV satellite channel CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
122 Luaay Salam Radeef Al-Baghdadia 16/01/2006     M 16.01.2006 - Luaay Salam Radeef, Al-Baghdadia Cameraman Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
123 Hamza Hussein sports reporter, Al-Diyar TV 22/01/2006 killed in a car bomb in Baghdad 18 M 23.01.2006 - Hamza Hussein, sport journalist at private TV station Al-Diyar Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
124 Abdul Razzaq A-Na'as writer and professor of journalism in Baghdad university  29/01/2006 shot by unknown armed men, in Baghdad   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   CPJ Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   F   Unreported RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
127 Adnan Kheiralla tv engineer, Al-Arabiya 23/02/2006 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen 36 M 23.02.2006 - Adnane Kahïnallah, sound recordist Al-Arabiya CPJ Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
128 Atwar Bahjat Al-Arabiya correspondent  23/02/2006 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen 30 F 23.02.2006 - Atwar Bahjat, al-Arabiya TV CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
129 Khalid Mahmood Al-Falahi Al-Arabiya cameraman 23/02/2006 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen 39 M 23.02.2006 - Khaled Mahmoud Al-Falahi, cameraman Al-Arabiya CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
130 Khaled Mohsen Al-Arabiya sound technician 23/02/2006 kidnapped and killed by unknown armed men in Salahddeen   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
131 Monsif Abdulla Al-Khalidi news director in Baghdad TV 7/03/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Mosul 35 M 07.03.2006 - Monsef Al-Khalidi, Baghdad TV Sat Channel CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
132 Amjad Hamid Mohsin Al-Iraqiya TV director  11/03/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad, including his driver   M 11.03.2006 - Amjad Hameed, Al-Iraqiya CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
133 Anwar Turky driver, Al-Iraqiya TV  11/03/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad   M 11.03.2006 - Anwar Turky, Amjad Hameed’s driver, Al-Iraqiya CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
134 Mohsin Khodeir editor-in-chief, Alefba' magazine 13/03/2006 killed by unknown armed men   M 13.03.2006 - Muhsin Khudhair, Alef Ba CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M 26.03.2006 - Kamal Manahi Anbar, Institute for War and Peace Reporting  CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM Unreported
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.   M   CPJ Unreported INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
139 Qusai Al-Amiri media coordinator in Al-Bilad radio  22/04/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad   M 22.04.2006 - Qussay Kahdban, radio Al-Bilad Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
141 Sa'ud M'Zahim Al Hudaythi working for Baghdadiyah TV 5/05/2006 Circumstances are unknown.   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
143 Ismail Mohammad Khalaf Al Sabah 7/05/2006 killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad    M 7.05.2006 - Ismail Mohammad Khalaf, Al Sabah CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M 7.05.2006 - Leith Al-Doulaïmi, Al-Nahrain  CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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 28 M 7.05.2006 - Mouazaz Baroud, Al-Nahrain  CPJ RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
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 29 M 5.05.2006 - Abdel Chaker Al Dalimi, Independant photographer Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
147 Saud M’Zahim Al-Hedaithi Baghdadiyah TV 8/05/2006 killed by unknown armed men in Baghdad   M 5.05.2006 - Saoud Mazahem Al-Hadithi, Al-Baghdadia  Unreported RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.    M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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
  M   Unreported Unreported Unreported ICAS Unreported Unreported
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.   M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
151 jafaar Ali TV Sports presenter of Al Iraqiya 31/05/2006 11th Al-Iraqiya employee gunned down in Baghdad   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
152 Mohammed Jassim cameraman for Al-Iraqiya TV, , May 31, 2006 31/05/2006 killed by unknown gunmen north of Baghdad 27 M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
153 Ibrahim Seneid Journalist Al Bashara 13/06/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18030   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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 35 M   CPJ Unreported INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
155 Ossama Qadeer Cameraman, Fox News 29/06/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18170   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
156 Adel Naji Al Mansouri Journalist Al Alam TV 1/08/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18451 35 M killed in the western Baghdad's district of al-Ameriya. Naji was kidnapped on Monday by unknown gunmen in al-Atifiya neighborhood in Baghdad's district of al-Karkh. The police found his body inside his car with multiple gunshots in al-Ameriya. CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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   M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS Unreported Unreported
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.    M   CPJ Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
159 Riyad Atto Talafar al Youm  1/08/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18498   M   Unreported RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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. 30 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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. 28 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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   M   CPJ Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.  34 M   Unreported Unreported Unreported ICAS Unreported IBC
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 41 M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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. 56 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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 31 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
168 Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli correspondent for Baghdad TV 18/09/2006 http://www.cpj.org/news/2006/mideast/iraq18sept06na.html 25 M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
170 Jassim Aarif Hassan Al-Charkiya TV  7/10/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19138   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
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
29 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM Unreported
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.   M   CPJ Unreported INSI Unreported NEWSEUM Unreported
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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. 55 M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
184 Ali Hlayel security guard for Atyaf 13/10/2006 http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/Iraq/iraq_media_killed.html   M   CPJ Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
185 Raed Qais al-Shammari al-Iraqiya channel...government-run TV 14/10/2006 killed in a drive-by shooting in southern Baghdad. 28 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
186 Ali Halil Al Irakiya journalist 16/10/2006 murdered by gunmen yesterday in the Baghdad district of Al Hurriye   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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    F   CPJ RSF Unreported Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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    M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
190 Sherin Hamid TV presenter Al Iraqiya TV 29/10/2006 http://www.ifj.org/pdfs/JournalistsKilled2007finalweb.pdf   M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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 67 M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
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.  29 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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  M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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        Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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. 58 M   CPJ Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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 40 F   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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       Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
198 Luma Abdallah Al Karkhi Journalist Al-Dustour 15/11/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19812  25 F   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
199 Walid Hassan Journalist Al-Sharkiya 20/11/2006 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19813    M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
201 Fadhila Abdul Karim reporter for Mosul Radio 27/11/2006 killed in Mosul   F   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
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 36 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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. 35 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.  36 M   CPJ Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
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.    M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
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. 28 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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   M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
208 Yassin Aid Assef Al Sabah’s correspondent 14/01/2007 killed by a bomb while out covering a story in Baghdad   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM Unreported
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    M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
213 Salih Mehdi Mustaqbal radio station 17/01/2007 http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/2215/18_Iraqi_Journalists_Killed_in_2007   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
217 Munjid Al-Tumaimi Freelance photographer  28/01/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=20929   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
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   F   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.    M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.    M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
223 Hussein Al Zubaydi journalist with the weekly al-Ahali 19/02/2007 killed by gunmen in unclear circumstances in Baghdad    M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM Unreported
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 45 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
227 Mohan al-Dhahr managing editor of al-Mashriq newspaper 3/03/2007 murdered by unidentified gunmen near his home in western Baghdad, 49 M A few days earlier he had published a trenchant article criticising government finances. CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.  63 M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
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. 37 M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported NEWSEUM Unreported
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   F   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
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.
   F   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
237 Othman al-Mashhadani Al-Watan 9/04/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=21653   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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,   F   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
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   M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
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.    M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
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.   M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
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 33 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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 26 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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 22 M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
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   M   Unreported RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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, 34 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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 38 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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. 26 M   CPJ RSF Unreported ICAS Unreported IBC
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. 45 F   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
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. 27 M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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 32 M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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  53 M His body was found in the main Baghdad mortuary four days after he was kidnapped.  The editor of his newspaper said that the journalist had received threatening phone calls for some time but continued to work. CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
  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 ? ? Meanwhile, media sources said that the correspondent of the Egyptian daily al-Ahram in Baghdad, Mohammad al-Anwar, was only injured in the attack, not killed.
 Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.  35 F   Unreported Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
259 Rahim Al-Maliki Reporter Al-Iraqiya and poet 25/06/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22723 39 M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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] 21 M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported 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. 43 M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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. 57 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS Unreported Unreported
263 Louaï Souleimane Reporter Nineveh 28/06/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22809   M body found of Louaï Souleimane, journalist for the Nineveh al-Hurra newspaper [source: IBC] Unreported RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
264 Mohammed Hilal Karji Journalist Baghdad TV 4/07/2007 http://www.ifj.org/assets/docs/101/215/48f5565-778f0d7.pdf   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
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. 22 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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. 40 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS Unreported Unreported
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." 23 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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. 30 M   Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
270 Mustafa Darwich Germayani editor for Kirkuk al-Yawm 17/07/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22982   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM Unreported
271 Majid Mohammed sports reporter for Kirkuk Al-Yawm 17/07/2007 http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22981   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM Unreported
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 39 M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
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   M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS Unreported Unreported
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 42 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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. 40 M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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 50 M   Unreported Unreported INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
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. 32 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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   M Investigation indicated that the three were security men,  not journalists," the JFO said in a statement. Three of the editor-in-chief's bodyguards were killed by unidentified gunmen in southwestern Kirkuk (16/10/2007) Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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   M Investigation indicated that the three were security men,  not journalists," the JFO said in a statement. Three of the editor-in-chief's bodyguards were killed by unidentified gunmen in southwestern Kirkuk (16/10/2007) Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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 32 M Investigation indicated that the three were security men,  not journalists," the JFO said in a statement. Three of the editor-in-chief's bodyguards were killed by unidentified gunmen in southwestern Kirkuk (16/10/2007) Unreported Unreported INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
  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 32 M According to an IFJ statement 18/10/2007, this person is the same as Ziyas Tareq Al Dibo. Two security guards, A'allal Abedaljabbar Salaameh and Mohhamed Shakir Mahmoud, were injured in the attack. Unreported RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
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   M During the kidnapping of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) correspondent, the driver was shot and his body dumped in the street.  CPJ Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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 27 M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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. 20 M   Unreported RSF Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported
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 23 M   Unreported RSF INSI Unreported NEWSEUM IBC
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. 29 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   CPJ Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported Unreported
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.  27 M Hamdan had appeared on Iraqi satellite channels advocating on behalf of the families, which may have made him a target, Hasoun said. Hamdan worked as a political reporter for the bimonthly paper Al-Siyassa wal-Karar, published by the Young Journalists Association. The paper's print edition recently became defunct, but the association maintains the paper's Web site, according to Hasoun, who serves as the editor-in-chief. Unreported RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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		 74 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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 36 M   Unreported Unreported INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
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 38 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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, 36 F   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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. 32 M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
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. 35 M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
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, 50 M the killers shot him in the head from their car just after he left his home in Mosul. Abdul-Hameed had received death threats from militants claiming to be members of Al Qaida in Iraq. Unreported RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
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. 23 M Around mid-July, a death list of 16 journalists and writers, including Souran ‘Omar, Souran Mama Hama, was circulated within the Kurdistan region of Iraq. All the journalists and writers mentioned on the list are known to have been critical of the PUK and the KDP. CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
302 Kamal Aziz Khdayir Journalist 15/09/2008
journalist Kamal Aziz Khdayir killed by roadside bomb, Camp Sarah; 3 bodies found [source: IBC]
   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported 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.		 28 M Ahmed, in his twenties, was walking in a street in the center of Kirkuk with a friend when he was attacked. Ahmed was shot six times in the head and chest and declared dead at the scene. Unreported RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
304 Kanaan Guzal TV presenter 11/12/2008 tribal leaders and Kurdish officials, other restaurant customers and a TV presenter killed by a suicide bomber in Abdullah Restaurtant, between Kirkuk and Arbil [source: IBC]   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported  
305 Muwaffaq Al Hamadani journalilst and Sunni election candidate 31/12/2008 journalist and Sunni election candidate gunned down in Al-Najafi Street, Bab al-Tob, central Mosul [source: IBC]   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
306 Sallam Arab al-Dawsaki journalist who works for al-Hadbaa newspaper 2/02/2009 The journalist, Sallam Arab al-Dawsaki, who works for al-Hadbaa newspaper, published in Mosul, was shot down by a policeman in front of his house in Wadi Hajar, southern Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.   M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported  
307 Majid al-Sakr Iraqi sports editor of the privately owned daily Al-Bayana 3/02/2009 A Baghdad official says an Iraqi sports editor has died of shrapnel wounds suffered in a roadside bombing more than two months ago. Majid al-Sakr had been in a coma since the November 28 attack in Baghdad. The head of the Iraqi Journalists' Union, Mouyyad al-Lami, says the 51-year-old journalist died on Tuesday in a hospital. 51 M Al-Lami says the journalist worked for the privately owned daily Al-Bayana and that he is survived by a wife and five children. Unreported Unreported INSI Unreported Unreported  
308 Suhaib Adnan  Al-Bagdadiya correspondent  10/03/2009 At least 33 people, including a local army chief, have died and 46 have been injured in a suicide attack on the western edge of Baghdad. Two journalists for the Cairo-based independent TV station al-Baghdadiya were among the dead, and four al-Iraqiya journalists were wounded   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported  
309 Haider Hashim Suhail Al-Bagdadiya cameraman 10/03/2009 At least 33 people, including a local army chief, have died and 46 have been injured in a suicide attack on the western edge of Baghdad. Two journalists for the Cairo-based independent TV station al-Baghdadiya were among the dead, and four al-Iraqiya journalists were wounded   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported  
310 Ihsan Zaboun Hayal administrator for local newspaper Sawt al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq) 14/05/2009  An administrator working for the local newspaper Sawt al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq) was killed and another was injured in an armed attack in central Baghdad. Unknown gunmen opened fire on Ihsan Zaboun Hayal and Abu Haydar, two employees in the Sawt al-Iraq newspaper, killing the first and seriously wounding the other.   M car of Editor-in-Chief of Sawt al-Iraq Abdul Jabar Wahid, driver Ihsan Zaboun Hayal killed in Al-Nedhal Street, central Baghdad [Source: IBC] Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported IBC
311 Alaa Abdul-Wahab sports reporter for Al-Baghdadiya satellite channel and managing editor of Nineveh newspaper 30/05/2009 An adhesive explosive device was placed in the car of the sports journalist, when he was with his colleague Dr. Sultan Gorges at the cultural group district to the east of Mosul, exploded when they boarded the car, which have resulted with the death of the journalist Sultan Gorges with wounds. 37 M In a similar but unrelated attack the same day, two staffers from the state-run Al-Iraqiya television station were badly wounded when a bomb attached to their car exploded in the Al-A'zamiya district in Baghdad. One of the wounded staffers was identified as sound engineer Hameed Yousif, while the second staffer's identity has not been revealed. CPJ          
   
                 
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. 
20/03/2003     M   Unreported RSF INSI ICAS Unreported IBC
2 Paul Moran  Australian ABC 22/03/2003 22.03.2003 - Paul Moran, Australian Broadcasting Corporation  39 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
3 Hussein Othman  Lebanese ITN 22/03/2003 22.03.2003 - Hussein Othman, translator, ITV News   M   CPJ RSF INSI Unreported Unreported IBC
4 Terry Lloyd  British ITN 23/03/2003 23.03.2003 - Terry Lloyd, ITV News 50 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
5 Kaveh Golestan  Iranian BBC - news photographer 2/04/2003 02.04.2003 - Kaveh Golestan , BBC 52 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
6 Michael Kelly  American Washington Post 4/04/2003 04.04.2003 - Michael Kelly , Washington Post   M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
7 Christian Liebig German Focus 7/04/2003 07.04.2003 - Christian Liebig, Focus 35 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
8 Julio Anguita Parrado  Spanish El Mundo 7/04/2003 07.04.2003 - Julio Anguita Parrado, El Mundo 32 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
9 Tarek Ayoub  Jordanian Al-Jazeera 8/04/2003 08.04.2003 - Tarek Ayoub, Al Jazeera   M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
10 Taras Protsyuk  Ukrainian Reuters 8/04/2003 08.04.2003 - Taras Protsyuk, Reuters 35 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
11 José Couso  Spanish Telecinco 8/04/2003 08.04.2003 - José Couso, Tele 5 37 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
12
Richard Wild British freelance television cameraman, shot dead at point blank range in central Baghdad street. 5/07/2003   24 M   CPJ Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
13 Jeremy Little American NBC - Sound engineer 7/07/2003 07.07.2003 - Jeremy Little, sound engineer, NBC   M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
14 Mazen Dana  Palestinian Reuters 17/08/2003 17.08.2003 - Mazen Dana, Reuters 43 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
15 Waldemar Milewicz  Polish TVP 7/05/2004 07.05.2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, TVP 48 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
16 Mounir Bouamrane  Algerian TVP 7/05/2004 07.05.2004 - Mounir Bouamrane, TVP 36 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
17 Kotaro Ogawa  Japanese Freelance 27/05/2004 27.05.2004 - Kotaro Ogawa, Nikkan Gendai 33 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
18 Shinsuke Hashida  Japanese Freelance 27/05/2004 27.05.2004 - Shinsuke Hashida, Nikkan Gendai 61 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
19 Enzo Baldoni  Italian Diario della Settimana 26/08/2004 26.08.2004 - Enzo Baldoni, Diario della settimana 56 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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.   M 12.09.2004 - Mazen al-Tomaizi, Al-Arabiya CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
21 Steven Vincent  American Freelance 2/08/2005 02.08.2005 - Steven Vincent, freelance journalist 49 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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   42 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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   48 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
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   29 M   CPJ RSF INSI ICAS NEWSEUM IBC
             
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   48 M   Unreported Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
2
David Bloom Reporter of NBC News died from an apparent blood clot while covering the war south of Baghdad. 6/04/2003   39 M   Unreported Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
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   29 F   Unreported Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
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   51 M   Unreported Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
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   46 F   Unreported Unreported INSI ICAS NEWSEUM Unreported
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. 51 M   Unreported Unreported Unreported Unreported NEWSEUM Unreported
   
     
Killed Media Professionals of Iraqi Nationality   Not reported: -- violent deaths CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists Journalists  
Journalist, reporter 184   Not reported: -- violent deaths RSF Reporters Without Borders Media support workers
Cameraman 27   Not reported: -- violent deaths INSI International News Safety Institute Unconfirmed / Missing
Photographer 6   Not reported: -- violent deaths ICAS Iraq Coalition Casualty Count Unreported  
Administrative 39 (incl. staff employees, directors, producers ….) UNESCO list
Translator 12   Not reported: -- violent deaths     |  NEWSEUM  Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial
Driver 17   Not reported: -- violent deaths     |  IBC Iraq Bodycount
Security guard 12    
Technician (incl. soundman) 14 Killed Media Professionals of Iraqi Nationality 311
       
Non-Iraqi Media Professionals, killed in Iraq, 24 Media Professionals of non-Iraqi Nationality who died in Iraq of non violent causes 6
       
Total Media professionals killed in the Iraq war: 335
    MALE 311
Total Media professionals who died in the Iraq war: 341 FEMALE 30
     
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 19 0 19  
  2009 6 0 6  
  Total:  311 30 341  
         
Average age:     36,94 years
List updated:  8/06/2009 18:14
             
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
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/individuals/
           
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