THE REAL-TIME WAR
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/al-Jazeera)
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)
Muhamed, 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)
Al-Dulaimi, 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)
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