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Death Toll of Journalists Reaches 187 in Iraq

HeadlineMar 21, 2007

Two more Iraqi journalists have been killed. The body of TV producer Hamid al-Duleimi was found yesterday in the Baghdad morgue. He had been abducted two days earlier. Autopsy reports revealed that the journalist had been tortured. The editor of the daily newspaper al-Safir, Hussein al-Jaburi, died last week from his injuries suffered after being ambushed outside his Baghdad home. According to the International News Safety Institute, 187 journalists and support staff have died since the war began four years ago.

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