.Report: Iraq Journalist Killed in Ramadi
BAGHDDAD, Iraq (AP) - An Iraqi journalist has been killed in the volatile town of Ramadi, the television station he worked for said Tuesday.
Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli, 25, was killed on Saturday in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, according to Baghdad TV, which did not provide further details.
Baghdad TV is owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party, a major Sunni political group.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists condemned al-Karbouli's killing, saying he had received death threats from insurgents over the past four months warning him to leave the station.
"We deplore the murder of our colleague Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli and offer our condolences to his family," CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon said in a statement. "Journalists in Ramadi report under intolerable conditions without any protection to tell the world what is happening in this hotbed of the Iraqi insurgency."
Ramadi is the capital of Anbar, a vast, mostly desert province stretching west of Baghdad to the borders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria. Mainly Sunni Anbar is an insurgent stronghold, and Ramadi has become one of the most violent cities in the country.
Another three Baghdad TV employees have been killed since June 2005, two of them by U.S. forces in crossfire, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. It said al-Karbouli's death brings the number of journalists killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 to 80, while 28 media support workers have also been killed.
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Too bad he was killed by the insurgents, what a waste, had he been killed by the US he would have made the front page of most world newspapers, and be the leading story on the big blogs. As it is he barely made the last line in Myway. What a waste of a life.
Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli, 25, was killed on Saturday in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, according to Baghdad TV, which did not provide further details.
Baghdad TV is owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party, a major Sunni political group.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists condemned al-Karbouli's killing, saying he had received death threats from insurgents over the past four months warning him to leave the station.
"We deplore the murder of our colleague Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli and offer our condolences to his family," CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon said in a statement. "Journalists in Ramadi report under intolerable conditions without any protection to tell the world what is happening in this hotbed of the Iraqi insurgency."
Ramadi is the capital of Anbar, a vast, mostly desert province stretching west of Baghdad to the borders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria. Mainly Sunni Anbar is an insurgent stronghold, and Ramadi has become one of the most violent cities in the country.
Another three Baghdad TV employees have been killed since June 2005, two of them by U.S. forces in crossfire, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. It said al-Karbouli's death brings the number of journalists killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 to 80, while 28 media support workers have also been killed.
MyWay
Too bad he was killed by the insurgents, what a waste, had he been killed by the US he would have made the front page of most world newspapers, and be the leading story on the big blogs. As it is he barely made the last line in Myway. What a waste of a life.
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