Journalist Killings in Iraq Condemned

[Judi Lynn]

Journalist Killings in Iraq Condemned
By VIJAY JOSHI , 08.03.2006, 05:54 AM

Two international media watchdogs have condemned the slayings of two journalists in Iraq that one of the groups said raised to at least 100 the number of media members killed since the U.S. invasion in March 2003.

"No armed conflict since the Second World War has been so deadly for the press," Reporters Without Borders, a French press freedom organization, said in a statement Wednesday. The group described the high death toll as "appalling."

Adil al-Mansuri, an Iraqi correspondent for the Iranian government-run Al-Alam television station, was shot as he was returning to his western Baghdad home Monday.

Reporters Without Borders said 100 journalists and media assistants are known to have been killed in Iraq since 2003. It said two are missing and three others are currently held hostage.
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