Three jounalists die in Iraq, three still held hostage.
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Three Arab TV Jounralists Die in Iraq
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| Atwar Bahjat [inset]. Remains of her and her crew. [Al Arabiya.] |
Atwar in Western dress. [Al Jazeera] |
Three journalists reporting for the Arab satellite TV
network Al Arabiya died covering the bombing of the Askariya Shrine [also
known as the Golden Mosque] in Samarra. Anthony Loyd of the Times leads
his article “Half Sunni, half Shia — a target for everyone” with:
There were so many reasons not to kill Atwar Bahjat. She was half
Sunni, half Shia, a woman, an Iraqi, 30 years old, a native of Samarra
and a renowned journalist for the Dubai-based al-Arabiya news channel.
Yet kill her they did. …
Three Jounalists Still Held Hostage in Iraq
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