Reply #32: Plaiddy, I love you but....

[Tigress DEM]

Some of them may truly be afraid. I agree there needs to be a courageous media presence, but let's recognize facts, this administration is poised to be deadly and whistleblowers get prosecuted or silenced some other way. I still believe in your call to the media to tell the truth, but don't belittle what danger they are facing. It isn't fair to those who have died trying to get the truth to us and those who are still being detained.

Reporters Without Boarders is where you can find a lot of information.


JOURNALISTS KILLED
Name Nationality/Media outlet Date
1 Paul Moran Australian/ABC 22 March 2003
2 Terry Lloyd British/ ITN 23 March 2003
3 Kaveh Golestan Iranian/BBC 2 April 2003
4 Michael Kelly American/Washington Post 4 April 2003
5 Christian Liebig German/Focus 7 April 2003
6 Julio Anguita Parrado Spanish/El Mundo 7 April 2003
7 Tarek Ayoub Jordanian/Al-Jazeera 8 April 2003
8 Taras Protsyuk Ukrainian/Reuters 8 April 2003
9 José Couso Spanish/Telecinco 8 April 2003
10 Ahmad Karim Iraqi/Kurdistan Satellite TV 2 July 2003
11 Mazen Dana Palestinian/Reuters 17 August 2003
12 Ahmed Shawkat Iraqi/Bila Ittijah 28 October 2003
13 Ali Al-Khatib Iraqi/Al-Arabiya 19 March 2004
14 Ali Abdel-Aziz Iraqi/Al-Arabiya 18 March 2004
15 Nadia Nasrat Iraqi/Diyala 18 March 2004
16 Burhan al-Louhaybi Iraqi/ABC News 26 March 2004
17 Assad Kadhim Iraqi/Al-Iraqiya 19 April 2004
18 Waldemar Milewicz Polish/TVP 7 May 2004
19 Mounir Bouamrane Algerian/TVP 7 May 2004
20 Kotaro Ogawa Japanese/freelance 27 May 2004
21 Shinsuke Hashida Japanese/freelance 27 May 2004
22 Sahar Saad Muami Iraqi/Al-Mizan 3 June 2004
23 Hossam Ali Iraqi/freelance 15 August 2004
24 Mahmud Abbas Iraqi/ZDF 15 August 2004
25 Enzo Baldoni Italian/Diario della Settimana 26 August 2004
26 Mazen al-Tomaizi Palestinian/Al-Arabiya 12 September 2004
27 Ahmad Jassem Iraqi/Al-Iraqiya 7 October 2004
28 Dina Hassan Iraqi/Al-Hurriya 14 October 2004
29 Karam Hussein Iraqi/EPA 14 October 2004
30 Liqaa Abdul-Razzak Iraqi/Al-Iraqiya 27 October 2004
31 Dhia Najim Iraqi/Reuters 1 November 2004
32 Abdel Hussein Khazaal Iraqi/Al-Hurra 9 February 2005
33 Raeda Wazzan Iraqi/Al-Iraqiya 25 February 2005
34 Laik Ibrahim Iraqi/Kurdistan Satellite TV 10 March 2005
35 Hussam Hilal Sarsam Iraqi/Kurdistan Satellite TV 14 March 2005
36 Ahmed Jabbar Hashim Iraqi/Al Sabah 1 April 2005
37 Shamal Abdallah Assad Iraqi/Kurdistan Satellite TV 15 April 2005
38 Ali Abrahim Aissa Iraqi/Al-Hurriya 14 April 2005
39 Fadel Hazem Fadel Iraqi/Al-Hurriya 14 April 2005
40 Saleh Ibrahim Iraqi/AP 23 April 2005


MEDIA ASSISTANTS KILLED
Name Nationality/Media outlet Date
1 Hussein Osman Lebanese/ITN 22 March 2003
2 Kamaran Muhamed Iraqi/BBC 6 April 2003
3 Jeremy Little American/NBC 7 July 2003
4 Yasser Khatab Iraqi/CNN 27 January 2004
5 Duraid Isa Mohammed Iraqi/CNN 27 January 2004
6 Mohamad Ahmad Iraqi/Diyala TV 18 March 2004
7 Majid Rashid Iraqi/Diyala TV 18 March 2004
8 Omar Hashim Kamal Iraqi/Time 26 March 2004
9 Hussein Saleh Iraqi/Al-Iraqiya 19 April 2004
10 Rashid Hamid Wali Iraqi/Al-Jazeera 21 May 2004
11 (unknown) Iraqi (local media) 25 May 2004
12 (unknown) Iraqi (local media) 27 May 2004
13 Samia Abdeljabar Iraqi/Al-Sabah Al-Jadid 29 May 2004
14 Mahmud Ismail Daud Iraqi/Al-Sabah Al-Jadid 29 May 2004
15 Jamal Tawfiq Salmane American/Gazeta Wyborcza 25 August 2004
16 Ismail Taher Mohsin Iraqi/AP 2 September 2004