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18 May 2007 15:55:10 GMT
Source: Reuters
May 18 (Reuters) - Unknown assailants killed two ABC News broadcast journalists in Iraq in the latest attack on journalists in the war-torn country, the U.S. news organization said on Friday.

Their deaths bring the total number of journalists killed in Iraq since 2003 to 104, according to a tally kept by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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

Nov. 3 - Baghdad police find the body of freelance journalist Abdul Majeed Ismael Khalil, 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 southeast 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 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.

May 17 - Two ABC journalists, cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz and soundman Saif Laith Yousuf, are killed in Baghdad. They were returning from the Baghdad bureau when their car was attacked.

Sources: Reuters, RSF: www.rsf.org/, CPJ: www.cpj.org
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Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (L) speaks with Australian soldiers at Sydney's Victoria Barracks May 22, 2007. Zebari, who is in the country on a four-day visit, shook hands and spoke with around a dozen Australian soldiers who have served in Iraq.



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