Three More Journalists Killed in Iraq

Today’s New York Times carries a story about two Reuters journalists were killed Thursday while covering a clash between American soldiers and Shiite militias in Baghdad. One of the two, Namir Noor-Eldeen, was a photographer. The other dead journalist, Saeed Chmagh, was a driver.
        Meanwhile, the New York Times website is carrying a late-breaking story about one of its own employees, Khalid W. Hassan, who was killed earlier today in Baghdad. The circumstances of Hassan’s death remained unclear in the hours after his death. The two Reuters journalists were killed when troops in an American helicopter fired into an area where the pair had just gotten out of their car (above, photo by Ali Abbas/European Pressphoto Agency). At least 16 other people were also killed in the incident.
      According to Times, at least 110 journalists and 40 media support staff have been filled since the 2003 American invasion. The vast majority of those have been Iraqis.
—David Schonauer

Comments

[Keith Nolan]

I wonder how many of these Iraqi journalists have been killed by US or Coalition forces?

[David Schonauer]

I don't know the answer to that. Civil wars are so treacherous for everyone--soldiers, civilians, and journalists. And this conflict is a civil war, no matter what the administration maintains. Even Bill O'Reilly on Fox is now saying enough is enough. Let's get a timetable for getting out of Iraq, and if the Bush administration can't make that work, let's find someone who can.