List of jounalists who died in Iraq

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040419/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_journalists_glance&cid=540&ncid=1480

[Stuckinthebush]

1. I didn't know that David Bloom of NBC died....

Too many deaths as a result of this stupid war.

I'll say it...

I'd rather have Saddam still in power as a toothless animal and have the thousands of world citizens who died as a result of this foolish war still alive and with their families.

[Tellurian]

3. David Bloom's death was shocking...

apparently he died of a blood clot to the lung.

He was here one minute and gone the next.

It was that fast!

[gottaB]

2. Committee to Protect Journalists website

http://www.cpj.org

[kainah]

6. thanks!

I've been looking for a good website to track the names of journalists who have been killed in Iraq and elsewhere.

[Tellurian]

4. A Tribute should be erected to these fallen devotees

near the War Memorials.

[theHandpuppet]

5. I'm ashamed to have seen...

... the names of so many journalists killed by U.S. forces. Does this list include the ones we killed today?

[nolabels]

7. Here are a couple of new ones

http://www.kstp.com/article/view/138315/

U.S. troops kill two journalists in Iraq
Updated: 04-19-2004 12:04:06 PM

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. troops shot to death two employees of a U.S.-funded television station Al-Iraqiya on Monday and wounded a third in the central city of Samara, the station said.

Correspondent Asaad Kadhim and driver Hussein Saleh were killed. Cameraman Bassem Kamel was wounded "after American forces opened fire on them while they were performing their duty," the station announced.

The station, which is funded by the Pentagon, interrupted its broadcasts to announce the deaths and showed photos of Kadhim. It then began airing only Koranic texts as a symbol of mourning.

The U.S. military had no immediate comment.

Thamir Ibrahim, an Al-Iraqiya editor, told The Associated Press he had no details on how the shooting occurred. But "it was on the road leading to the city of Samara. Before they reached it, they were fired upon."

They were taken to a Samara hospital, he said. "We wanted to go (to them) now, but the road is closed, so we will go tomorrow."

On March 18, U.S. troops shot dead correspondent Ali al-Khatib and cameraman Ali Abdel-Aziz of the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news station.