Two journalists killed in Iraq

Reporters Without Borders calls the Iraqi conflict the deadliest for journalists since Vietnam, with 56 journalists and media staff killed and 29 kidnapped since fighting began in March 2003. This week, two more journalists lost their lives.

On 15 May 2005, armed men killed Najem Abed Khudair and Ahmed Adam near Latifiyah, south of Baghdad, reported RSF and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The journalists were heading toward the holy city of Kerbala when the armed men intercepted them and reportedly slit their throats.

Khudair worked for the independent daily newspapers “Al-Mada” and “Tariq al-Shaab”. Adam, a poet and writer, was a contributor to “Al-Mada” and “Sabah”, a newspaper launched after the start of the conflict. The Iraqi army said on 16 May that it had arrested nine suspects.

RSF says 11 journalists and media assistants have been killed in Iraq since the beginning of this year.

Newspapers from Iraq

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