April 8 —
News organization employees killed in combat situations during
the war in Iraq, which began March 20:
Tareq Ayoub, Jordanian journalist for Al-Jazeera, Qatar, April 8,
at the Al-Jazeera office 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.
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