Sixteen Who Died In Iraq
Tareq
Ayyoub, 35
Ayyoub, a Jordanian journalist with al-Jazeera, was killed
on April 8 when a U.S. missile struck the station’s Baghdad
headquarters, a two-story house in a residential area. He leaves
a wife and one-year-old daughter. (Photo: AP)
David Bloom, 39
Bloom, an NBC correspondent and anchor of the weekend Today
show, was
embedded with the U.S. Army’s Third Infantry Division. A
husband and father of three, Bloom was south of Baghdad on April
6 when he died of a pulmonary embolism.
Veronica Cabrera, 28
Cabrera was
seriously injured on April 14 in a car accident between Amman
and Baghdad. She died on April 15.
Jose Couso, 37
Couso, 37, a cameraman for the Spanish television station
Telecinco, died after a U.S. tank fired a shell at the Palestine
Hotel in Baghdad on April 8, where most journalists in the city
were based. The shell hit a hotel balcony where several journalists
were monitoring a battle on the other side of the nearby Tigris
River. Couso was married and had two children.
Kaveh Golestan, 52
Golestan, an Iranian free-lance cameraman on assignment
for the BBC, was killed in northern Iraq on April 3 after stepping
on a land mine. He was also a well-known still photographer. He
leaves a wife and son. (Photo: AP)
Michael
Kelly, 46
Kelly was covering the war for The Atlantic on April
3. He leaves his wife, Madelyn, and two sons. (Photo: Jodi Hilton)
Christian Liebig, 35
Liebig, a reporter for the German weekly magazine Focus,
died on April 7 in an Iraqi missile attack while accompanying
the Third Infantry Division. (Photo: AP)
Terry Lloyd, 50
Lloyd, a veteran war correspondent with Britain’s
ITV News, was confirmed dead on March 23. He had disappeared the
previous day after coming under fire while driving to the southern
Iraqi city of Basra. Two other journalists (not pictured) disappeared
with Lloyd: cameraman Fred Nerac and translator Hussein
Osman. They are still missing. Lloyd is survived by his wife,
daughter, and son. (Photo: AP)
Paul
Moran, 39
Moran, a free-lance cameraman on assignment for the Australian
Broadcasting Corporation, was killed on March 22 in an apparent
suicide bombing at a checkpoint in northeastern Iraq. He is survived
by his wife and baby daughter.
Kamaran
Muhamed, 25, (not pictured), a Kurdish translator working
for the BBC, was killed on April 6 in northern Iraq in a “friendly
fire” incident after a U.S. warplane dropped a bomb on a
convoy of Americans and Kurds.
Elizabeth
Neuffer, 46
Neuffer, veteran foreign correspondent and U.N. Bureau
Chief for The Boston Globe, who served in Afghanistan,
Bosnia, and Rwanda, was killed along with her translator on May
9 in a car accident near the town of Samarra. Neuffer had been
returning to Baghdad from Tikrit, where she had spent the night
working on a story. Waleed Khalifa Hassan Al-Dulaimi, 31
(not pictured), a U.N. employee who took a temporary job as a
translator for the Globe, leaves a wife, who is eight months
pregnant with twins.
Julio
Parrado, 32
Parrado, a correspondent for the Spanish daily El Mundo,
died on April 7 in an Iraqi missile attack while accompanying
the U.S. Army’s Third Infantry Division south of Baghdad.
Mario
Podestá, 52
Podestá, an Argentine TV correspondent, was killed
on April 14 in a car accident between Amman and Baghdad. He was
traveling with Cabrera. (Photo: AP)
Taras
Protsyuk, 35
Protsyuk, a cameraman for Reuters, also died in the Palestine
Hotel incident. He had worked for Reuters since 1993, covering
conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, and Afghanistan. He leaves
a wife and son. (Photo: AP)
Gaby
Rado, 48
Rado, a correspondent with Britain’s Channel 4 News,
was found dead outside his hotel in Sulaimaniya, in northern Iraq,
on March 30. There was speculation that he might have fallen off
the roof. He leaves his wife, Dessa, and his two sons. (Photo:
AP)
