";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","July 1, 2005, Khalid al-Attar, Al-Iraqiya TV","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Khalid al-Attar, an Al-Iraqiya television journalist, is abducted in Mosul by unidentified gunmen and found shot to death.
";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","June 24, 2005, Yasser Shalihee, Knight Ridder","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Knight Ridder reporter Yasser Shalihee is shot and killed while driving near a roadblock manned by U.S. and Iraqi troops.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","May 31, 2005, Jerges Mahmood Mohamad Suleiman, Nineveh TV","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Jerges Mahmood Mohamad Suleiman, news anchor at Nineveh TV, is shot in Mosul. Nineveh TV is a local affiliate of Al-Iraqiya TV.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","May 15, 2005, Ahmed Adam and Najem Abd Khudair, Al-Mada","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Ahmed Adam and Najem Abd Khudair, reporters with the private Iraqi newspaper Al-Mada, are killed in Latifiya, south of Baghdad.
";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","April 23, 2005, Saleh Ibrahim, AP Television News","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "In Mosul, AP Television News cameraman Saleh Ibrahim dies after being shot three times in the chest when gunfire breaks out while he is reporting on an explosion.
";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","March 14, 2005, Hussam Habib, Kurdistan Satellite TV","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "In Mosul, gunmen kill Hussam Habib, an Iraqi cameraman working for Kurdistan Satellite TV. He had been kidnapped 12 hours before he was killed.
";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Feb, 9, 2005, Abdul-Hussein Khazal, Alhurra","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Feb 9, 2005 - Abdul-Hussein Khazal, Basra correspondent of the U.S.-funded television station Alhurra, is shot dead.
";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Nov. 1, 2004, Dhia Najim, Reuters ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Dhia Najim, an Iraqi freelance cameraman working for Reuters is shot dead in Ramadi while filming clashes between U.S. marines and Iraqi insurgents. ";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Oct. 27, 2004, Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, Al-Sharqiya ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Iraqi TV journalist Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq is shot by unidentified gunmen while travelling by taxi in Baghdad. ";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Oct. 14, 2005, Dina Mohamad Hassan, Al-Adhamiya TV","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Dina Mohamad Hassan is gunned down in Baghdad. She worked for Al-Hurriya, a TV station run by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) which is headed by a Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Oct. 14, 2004, Karam Hussein, European Pressphoto Agency ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Karam Hussein, an Iraqi photographer, is shot by gunmen believed to be targeting Iraqis working for foreign news organizations.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Oct. 7, 2004, Ahmad Jassem, Nivive TV ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Ahmed Jassem, head of the government TV station Al Iraqiya in Mosul, is shot dead when gunmen open fire on his car.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Sept. 12, 2004, Mazen al-Tomaizi, Al-Arabiya ","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Mazen al-Tomaizi is hit by the impact of a missile fired from a U.S. helicopter while reporting live on Al-Ekhbariya at the scene of a burning Bradley fighting vehicle.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Aug. 26, 2005, Enzo Baldoni, Diario della Settimana","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Italian freelance journalist Enzo Baldoni is kidnapped and later executed by members of the Islamic Army in Iraq.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Aug. 15, 2004, Hossam Ali , freelance","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Iraqi freelance photographer Hossam Ali is killed in Falluja in unclear circumstances.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Aug. 15, 2004, Mahmoud Hamid Abbas, ZDF","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Mahmoud Hamid Abbas is killed while filming explosions caused by U.S. warplances.
";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","June 3, 2004, Sahar Saad Eddin Nuami, Al-Mizan, Al-Khaima , Al-Hayat al-Gadida","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Sahar Saad Eddin Nuami, editor of three Kirkuk weekly papers Al-Mizan, Al-Khaima and Al-Hayat al-Gadida is killed by a grenade thrown at his car by unknown attackers in the city.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","May 27, 2004, Shiinsuke Hashida & Kotaro Ogawa, freelance","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Two Japanese freelance journalists, Shinsuke Hashida, 61, and his nephew Kotaro Ogawa, 33, and their Iraqi interpreter were killed on the road between Mahmoudiya and Latifiya when their vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","May 21, 2004, Rashid Hamid Wali, Al-Jazeera","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Wali, assistant cameraman and fixer for the Qatar-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera, was killed by gunfire in the morning in the Iraqi city of Karbala, the station reported.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","May 7, 2004, Waldemar Milewicz & Mounir Bouamrane, TVP","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Milewicz, one of Poland’s most experienced war correspondents, and his producer, Mounir Bouamrane, both employed by Polish state television TVP, were shot at by armed gunmen, presumably Iraqi insurgents, while riding in their car at around 9:30 a.m. in Latifiya, Iraq, about 19 miles south of the capital, Baghdad. TVP cameraman Jerzy Ernst, who was also a passenger in the car along with an Iraqi driver, was injured in the arm during the attack. ";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","April 19, 2004, Asaad Kadhim, Al-Iraqiyya TV","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Kadhim, a correspondent for the U.S.–funded Al-Iraqiya TV, and his driver, Hussein Saleh, were killed by gunfire from U.S. forces near a checkpoint close to the Iraqi city of Samara, about 75 miles northwest of the capital, Baghdad. Cameraman Jassem Kamel was injured in the shooting. On April 20, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the deputy director of operations for coalition forces in Iraq, confirmed that U.S. troops killed the journalist and his driver. According to media reports, Kimmitt said that coalition forces at the checkpoint warned the journalists’ vehicle to stop by firing several warning shots. When the vehicle ignored those shots, Kimmitt said, forces fired at the car.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","March 26, 2004, Burhan Mohamed Mazhour, ABC","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Mazhour, an Iraqi cameraman freelancing for the U.S.-based television station ABC, was killed in the city of Fallujah, about 35 miles west of the capital, Baghdad. ";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","March 18, 2004, Nadia Nasrat, Iraq Media Network/Diyala TV","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Nasrat, a news anchor working for the Coalition Provisional Authority's Iraq Media Network, was killed in the town of Baqouba when unidentified armed assailants opened fire on a bus carrying several employees of the IMN's Diyala Media Centre.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","March 18, 2004, Ali Abdel Aziz & Ali al-Khatib, Al-Arabiyya","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Abdel Aziz, a cameraman with the United Arab Emirates–based news channel Al-Arabiyya, and reporter Ali al-Khatib were shot near a U.S. military checkpoint in Baghdad. Abdel Aziz was killed instantly, and al-Khatib died in a hospital the next day.";
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Feb. 1, 2004","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "");
iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "
Killed when the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the KDP were attacked in twin suicide bombings at about 10:45 a.m. while the two Kurdish political groups hosted guests to commemorate the first day of the Muslim holiday Eid. More than 100 people, including several senior leaders in both parties, were killed in the attacks. "; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Jan. 27, 2004, Duraid Isa Mohammed, CNN","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Mohammed, a producer working for the U.S. cable news network CNN and his driver, Yasser Khatab, were killed in an ambush on the outskirts of the capital, Baghdad, CNN reported. The network said that Mohammed, who also acts as a translator, and Khatab died of multiple gunshot wounds in the afternoon after the two-car convoy they were traveling in came under fire by unidentified assailants. Cameraman Scott McWhinnie, who was traveling in the second vehicle, was grazed in the head by a bullet, CNN said, but the remaining members of the convoy—two CNN journalists, a security adviser, and the second driver—were unharmed. McWhinnie was treated at a nearby military base."; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Oct. 28, 2003, Ahmed Shawkat, Bilah Ittijah","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Shawkat, editor of the weekly Bilah Ittijah (Without Direction), was shot and killed by one or more gunmen at his office in Mosul."; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","Aug. 17, 2003, Mazen Dana, Reuters","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Dana, a veteran conflict cameraman for Reuters news agency, was killed by machine gun fire from a U.S. tank near the capital, Baghdad. Dana was struck in the torso while filming near Abu Ghraib Prison, outside Baghdad, in the afternoon. He had been reporting with a colleague near the prison after a mortar attack had killed six Iraqis there the previous night. The soldier in the tank who fired on Dana did so without warning, while the journalist filmed the vehicle approaching him from about 55 yards. U.S. military officials said the soldier who opened fire mistook Dana's camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. There was no fighting taking place in the area, and the journalists had been operating in the vicinity of the prison with the knowledge of U.S. troops near the prison gates. On September 22, the U.S. military announced that it had concluded its investigation into the incident. A spokesman for U.S. Central Command (Centcom) in Iraq told CPJ that while Dana's killing was \"regrettable,\" the soldier \"acted within the rules of engagement.\""; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","July 6, 2003, Jeremy Little, NBC News","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Little, an Australian freelance soundman working for the U.S.-based television network NBC, was injured in a grenade attack in the Iraqi town of Fallujah on June 29 while embedded with U.S. troops. He died of \"post-operative complications,\" according to a statement from NBC News. Little, 27, was embedded with the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division for NBC News and had been receiving treatment at a military hospital in Germany. "; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","July 5, 2003, Richard Wild, freelance","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Wild, a 24-year-old British freelance cameraman who was working in Baghdad, died after an unidentified assailant approached him and shot him in the head at close range on a street near the city's Natural History Museum."; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","July 2, 2003, Ahmad Karim, Kurdistan Satellite TV","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "The Mosul bureau chief of Kurdistan Satellite TV, Ahmad Karim, was killed on 2 July 2003 during an armed clash. His assistant, Hoshyar Ahmad, was wounded."; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","April 8, 2003, José Couso & Taras Protsyuk","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish television station Telecinco, and Protsyuk, a Ukrainian cameraman for Reuters, died after a U.S. tank fired a shell at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq's capital, where most journalists in the city were based during the war. At around 12 p.m., a shell hit two hotel balconies where several journalists were monitoring a battle in the vicinity. Directly after the attack, Maj. Gen. Buford Blount, commander of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division, confirmed that a single shell had been fired at the hotel from a tank in response to what he said was rocket and small arms fire from the building. On August 12, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) issued a news release summarizing the results of its investigation into the incident. The report concluded that the tank unit that opened fire on the hotel did so \"in a proportionate and justifiably measured response.\" It called the shelling \"fully in accordance with the Rules of Engagement.\" "; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","April 8, 2003, Tareq Ayyoub, Al-Jazeera","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Ayyoub, a Jordanian national working with the Qatar-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera, was killed when a U.S. missile struck the station's Baghdad bureau, which was located in a two-story villa in a residential area near the Iraqi Information Ministry and the former presidential palace compound of Saddam Hussein. Al-Jazeera cameraman Zouhair Nadhim, who was outside on the building's roof with Ayyoub, was injured in the blast, which targeted a small electric generator outside the building. Centcom maintains that U.S. forces were responding to enemy fire in the area and that the Al-Jazeera journalists were caught in the crossfire. Al-Jazeera correspondents deny that any fire came from their building. "; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","April 7, 2003, Christian Liebig & Julio Anguita Parrado","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Parrado, a correspondent for the Spanish daily El Mundo, and Liebig, a German journalist for Focus magazine, died in an Iraqi missile attack while accompanying the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division south of the capital, Baghdad. Both were embedded with the division, according to Agence France-Presse."; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","April 3, 2003, Michael Kelly, Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Post","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Kelly, editor-at-large of the Atlantic Monthly and a columnist with The Washington Post, was killed while traveling with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division just south of the Baghdad airport, according to a statement from The Washington Post. "; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","April 2, 2003, Kaveh Golestan, freelance","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Golestan, an Iranian freelance cameraman on assignment for the BBC, was killed in northern Iraq after stepping on a land mine, the BBC confirmed. "; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","March 22, 2003, Terry Lloyd, ITV News","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Lloyd, a veteran correspondent with ITV News, was confirmed dead on March 23 by the British TV network ITN, which produces ITV News. The previous day, he had disappeared after coming under fire while driving to the southern Iraqi city of Basra. Two others disappeared with Lloyd, cameraman Fred Nerac and translator Hussein Othman. They remain missing. An investigative article published in The Wall Street Journal in May indicated that Lloyd's SUV and another vehicle belonging to his colleagues came under fire from U.S. Marines. The article cited accounts from U.S. troops who recalled opening fire on cars marked \"TV.\" Soldiers also said they believed that Iraqi suicide bombers were using the cars to attack U.S. troops. The Journal article cited a report from a British security firm commissioned by ITN to investigate the incident saying that Lloyd's car was hit by both coalition and Iraqi fire;the latter most likely came from behind the car, possibly after the vehicle had crashed. "; iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i++] = new Array("","March 22, 2003, Paul Moran, freelance","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); iraq_pressdeaths_040526[i-1].body = "Moran, a free-lance cameraman on assignment for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was killed in a suicide bombing when a man detonated a car at a checkpoint in northeastern Iraq. Another Australian journalist, ABC correspondent Eric Campbell, was injured in the incident."; // END editorial data