[NYTr] Target: Journalists - Iraq Media Worker Death Toll Hits 200
 
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 13:28:30 -0500 (CDT)


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electronic Iraq - Sep 7, 2007
http://electroniciraq.net/news/themedia/Media_Worker_Death_Toll_Reaches_200-3197.shtml

Media Worker Death Toll Reaches 200 

Report, Reporters Without Borders, Sep 7, 2007

An Iraqi translator for a United States' television network has been
found dead in Iraq, bringing the number of journalists and media
workers killed in the country since the start of the U.S.-led invasion
in March 2003 to 200, Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans
frontieres, RSF) reports.

Anwar Abbas Lafta, an Iraqi translator and interpreter for CBS News,
was found dead on 25 August in eastern Baghdad, five days after he was
abducted.

He was kidnapped by a group of 10 gunmen who forced their way into his
Baghdad home on 20 August, beat his brother and shot and wounded his
sister, RSF says. Anwar Abbas was the only one that was apprehended.
CBS News said his abductors contacted the family several times to
demand a ransom. The police eventually found his body in the eastern
Baghdad district of Sadr City.

According to RSF, 73 percent of journalists killed in Iraq were
directly targeted - "much higher than in previous wars in which
journalists were above all the victims of collateral damage and stray
bullets," RSF says.

Eighty-eight per cent of journalists and media workers killed were
Iraqis, often those who work for foreign news media.

Most of the 200 media fatalities took place in Baghdad (110 cases) or
near the capital (34 cases), says RSF. The remaining cases were mostly
centred in the north of the country, especially in Mosul and Kirkuk.

More journalists are also taken hostage in Iraq than anywhere else in
the world, says RSF. A total of 84 journalists and media workers (64
per cent of them Iraqis) have been kidnapped there in the past four
years. Only about half of them were freed. Fourteen are still being
held by their abductors.
 
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