Chronology of reporters' deaths in Iraq since the start of the war

PARIS (AFP) Apr 08, 2003
Tareq Ayub, a 34-year-old correspondent for Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television, died on Tuesday following a missile strike on the station's Baghdad offices, becoming the ninth journalist to be killed in the 20-day war on Iraq.

Five other people, including a Spanish cameraman and three staff of British news agency Reuters, were wounded on Tuesday in a separate attack on the Baghdad hotel where most of the foreign media in the city is based.

Following is a chronology of reporters' casualties during the war:

April 7

-- Christian Liebig, a correspondent with Germany weekly Focus, and Julio Anguita Parrado from Spanish daily El Mundo are killed after a missile attack on a US operations center.

-- Al-Jazeera accuses US forces of firing on one of its vehicles near Baghdad and says its office in the southern city of Basra "was the direct target of shelling" on April 2.

April 6

-- US NBC television journalist David Bloom, 39, "embedded" with US troops in Iraq dies near Baghdad, apparently of natural causes.

-- Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, a 25-year-old Kurdish translator working with the BBC, dies after a US plane bombs a Kurdish-US convoy in northern Iraq in a "friendly-fire" attack.

April 4

-- Washington Post editorial columnist Michael Kelly is killed when the Humvee vehicle in which he is travelling with US troops plunges into a canal while evading Iraqi fire on the approach to Baghdad's main airport.

April 2

-- Kaveh Golestan, 52, a prize-winning Iranian photographer working as a cameraman with the BBC, dies when he steps out of his car onto a landmine in Kifri, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.

March 30

-- Gaby Rado, 48, covering the war for British television network ITV, is killed when he falls from the roof of the Abu Sanaa hotel in Sulaymaniya, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. The circumstances of his death are not known.

March 22

-- Australian cameraman Paul Moran, 39, on assignment for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is killed in a suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi town of Khurmal, under Kurdish control.

-- ITN correspondent Terry Lloyd, 50, is believed to have been killed by US-British fire near Basra. Lloyd's French cameraman 43-year-old Fred Nerac and Lebanese interpreter Hussein Osman are still missing.

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