Team Infidel
Forum Spin Doctor
Media: The Associated Press
Byline: n/a
Date: 19 September 2006
Body:
BAGHDDAD, Iraq_An Iraqi television journalist was killed in the volatile
town of Ramadi west of Baghdad, the television station he worked for said
Tuesday.
Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli, 25, worked for the Baghdad TV channel in Ramadi,
115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad. He was killed on Saturday, the
television station said, but did not provide further details.
Baghdad TV is owned by a major Sunni political group, the Iraqi Islamic
Party.
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 television 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 the vast Anbar province, an area of mostly desert
which stretches 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 CPJ 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.
Byline: n/a
Date: 19 September 2006
Body:
BAGHDDAD, Iraq_An Iraqi television journalist was killed in the volatile
town of Ramadi west of Baghdad, the television station he worked for said
Tuesday.
Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli, 25, worked for the Baghdad TV channel in Ramadi,
115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad. He was killed on Saturday, the
television station said, but did not provide further details.
Baghdad TV is owned by a major Sunni political group, the Iraqi Islamic
Party.
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 television 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 the vast Anbar province, an area of mostly desert
which stretches 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 CPJ 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.