May 10 (Reuters) - Journalists in Iraq are attacked by death squads and insurgents intent on silencing their voices, media watch groups say.

The Vienna-based International Press Institute said in April that 46 journalists were killed last year in Iraq, of whom 44 were Iraqis. Overall, more than 100 journalists, 80 of them Iraqi, have been killed in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003.

Following is a chronology of those reported killed in the past six months.

Sept. 12, 2006 - Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri, a journalist and representative of the Iraqi Journalists' Syndicate for the eastern province of Diyala, is killed north of Baghdad.

Sept. 13 - Iraqi police report finding the body of Safaa Ismail Inad, a journalist at al-Watan newspaper, near Sadr City.

Sept. 18 - Gunmen in Ramadi kill Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbuli, who worked for the Sunni-run Baghdad TV, a satellite channel owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party.

Nov. 3 - Baghdad police find the body of freelance journalist Abdul Majeed Ismael Khalil. He was abducted on Oct. 18.

Nov. 3 - Television journalist Ahmed Rasheed is killed in Baghdad's Sunni district of Adhamiya.

Nov. 13 - Gunmen in Mosul kill Mohammed al-Ban, a cameraman for al-Sharqiya television, who also worked for local newspaper Al Masar.

Nov. 15 - Gunmen kill journalist Fadia Mohammed Ali and her driver on her way to the Al Masar newspaper in Mosul.

Dec. 4 - Gunmen shoot dead radio journalist Nabil al-Dulaimi.

Dec. 12 - Gunmen shoot dead Aswan Lutfalla, a cameraman working for Associated Press Television News in Mosul.

Feb. 11, 2007 - Hussein al-Joubouri, editor of the daily newspaper al-Safir is fatally wounded in an attack at his Baghdad home.

March 3 - Jamal Riyah al-Zoubaidi is found dead in the southeast of Baghdad. He went missing after leaving the offices of his newspaper, al-Safir.

March 4 - Mohan Hussein al-Dhahr, editor of the daily al-Mishrak, is killed in a botched kidnap in the east of Baghdad.

March 19 - The body of Hamid al-Duleimi, producer of TV channel al-Nahrain is found in the Baghdad morgue, two days after he had been abducted.

April 5 - The body of Iraqi journalist Khamail Muhsin is found with a gunshot wound to the head and signs of torture. She was last seen on April 3.

May 6 - Russian freelance photographer, Dmitry Chebotayev, is killed in a roadside bomb attack north of Baghdad. He is the the first Russian journalist to be killed in Iraq.

May 9 - Two Iraqi journalists, a clerk for their media firm and their driver are dragged from their car and killed by gunmen southwest of Kirkuk near the small town of Rashad.

Sources: Reuters, RSF: www.rsf.org/, CPJ: www.cpj.org

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