Journalists killed in Iraq
2005-09-21 10:14
Baghdad - Two Iraqi journalists working for the national newspaper As-Safeer have been shot dead this week in the northern city of Mosul, the chief editor said on Wednesday.
Mosul bureau chief Firas Maadidi was killed on Tuesday evening, Hussein Juburi told AFP. Police said he was shot outside his home.
On Sunday, a woman reporter, Hind Ismaeel, was also killed, Juburi said.
"Our newspaper has no links with any political party. We are an independent national newspaper," Juburi said.
Maadidi was killed by unidentified gunmen and Ismaeel by a man wearing a police uniform, Juburi said, adding that he had no idea who was behind the killings.
On Monday, Iraqi journalist Fakher Haidar al-Tamimi, who worked for foreign media in the southern city of Basra, was shot dead after being taken from his home overnight by men claiming to be policemen.
These deaths bring to 70 the number of journalists killed in Iraq since the United States-led invasion in March 2003 and the 21st this year, according to a toll based on figures from the Paris-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders.
- AFP