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Five Iraqi Journalists Die In Week-Long Span

HeadlineApr 21, 2005

And it’s been one of the deadliest weeks of the war for journalists in Iraq. The International Federation of Journalists is reporting that five Iraqi journalists have been killed over the past week. Two television journalists working with the Al-Hurriya tv station died last Thursday in a suicide bombing. On the next day, two TV journalists from Kirkuk TV and Kurdistan Satellite TV were killed. In addition, a journalist working with the paper -Sabar was beheaded in Baghdad. According to the International Federal of Journalists, Some 75 journalists and media staff have been killed since the US invasion in March 2003. The group has called on the new Iraqi government to make protection of media staff a top priority.

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