April 08, 2003

Journalists KIA in Iraq

The AP lists the journalists killed covering the war in Iraq.

_ Tareq Ayyoub, Jordanian journalist for Al-Jazeera, Qatar, April 8, at the Al-Jazeera office in Baghdad

_ Jose Couso, cameraman for Spanish television network Telecinco. April 8, at the Palestine hotel in Baghdad.

_ Kaveh Golestan, Iranian freelance cameraman for the BBC, northern Iraq, April 2

_ Michael Kelly, editor-at-large, The Atlantic Monthly, U.S.A., April 3, near Baghdad

_ Christian Liebig, journalist for Focus weekly, Germany, April 7, south of Baghdad

_ Terry Lloyd, correspondent for Independent Television News, Britain, March 22, southern Iraq

_ Paul Moran, freelance cameraman for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, March 22, northern Iraq

_ Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, a Kurdish translator working with the BBC, April 6, northern Iraq

_ Julio Anguita Parrado, reporter for El Mundo, Spain, April 7, south of Baghdad

_ Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian television cameraman for Reuters, April 8, at the Palestine hotel in Baghdad

In other deaths, disappearances:

_ Two other Independent Television News journalists, cameraman Fred Nerac of France and translator Hussein Osman of Lebanon, have also been missing since the shooting incident March 22 in southern Iraq in which Terry Lloyd was killed.

_ Reporter David Bloom of NBC News died April 6 from an apparent blood clot while covering the war south of Baghdad.

_ Gaby Rado, a correspondent for Channel 4 News, Britain, died March 30 after apparently falling from a hotel roof in northern Iraq.

_ Marcin Firlej, a reporter for the Polish TVN24 news channel, and Jacek Kaczmarek of Polish state radio were abducted by unidentified men Monday but called in Tuesday to report they had escaped.

Posted by Jim at April 8, 2003 01:23 PM