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Journalists Who Died in Iraq War
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By The Associated Press

May 9, 2003, 3:37 PM EDT

News organization employees killed in combat situations since the war on Iraq began March 20.

* 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.

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

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

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

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

* Michael Kelly, editor-at-large, The Atlantic Monthly, April 3, near Baghdad.

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

* 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.

In other deaths, disappearances:

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

* Elizabeth Neuffer, a reporter for The Boston Globe, died May 8 after the car in which she was a passenger apparently struck a guardrail near the town of Samarra, about halfway between Baghdad and Tikrit. Neuffer's translator, Waleed Khalifa Hassan Al-Dulami, also died in the accident.

* Veronica Cabrera, an Argentine free-lance camerawoman, died April 15 of injuries from a car crash outside the Iraqi capital, which instantly killed Mario Podesta, an Argentine TV reporter, on April 14.

* 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.

Copyright (c) 2003, The Associated Press

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