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Iraq Urged to Investigate Killing of Journalists

HeadlineJun 04, 2007

In other Iraq news, Reporters Without Borders is calling for the establishment of a special Iraqi police unit to investigate the killings of journalists. Twelve journalists were killed in May, making it the deadliest month of the war for media workers. On Thursday, an Iraqi cameraman working for the Associated Press named Saif Fakhry was shot and killed in Baghdad. Earlier in the week, National Iraqi News Agency correspondent Abdul Rahman al-Isawi was dragged from his home and shot. Nazar Abdul Wahid, a reporter with the Aswat al-Iraq news agency, was shot outside a hotel. And newspaper editor Mahmoud Hakim Mustafa was shot dead near his home in northern Iraq.

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