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he's got home. 157 days in captivity, much more in war, Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi returns to Jadria, Baghdad
Frédéric Nérac
of ITV News (UK), since 22 March 2003
Isam Hadi Muhsin Al-Shumary
Suedostmedia, since 15 August 2004
58 media workers have been killed in Iraq whilst doing thier jobs.
15.05.2005 - Najem Abed Khodair, Al-Madaa and Tariq al-Shaab
15.05.2005 - Ahmad Adam, Al-Madaa and Sabah
23.04.2005 - Saleh Ibrahim, Associated Press
15.04.2005 - Shamal Abdallah Assad, Kirkuk TV, Kurdsat
14.04.2005 - Ali Abrahim Aissa, Al-Hurriya TV
14.04.2005 - Fadel Hazem Fadel, Al-Hurriya TV
01.04.2005 - Ahmed Jabbar Hashim, Al Sabah
14.03.2005 - Houssam Hilal Sarsam, Kurdistan-TV
10.03.2005 - Laik Ibrahim, Kurdistan-TV
25.02.2005 - Raeda Mohammed Wageh Wazzan, Iraqiya
09.02.2005 - Abdel Hussein Khazaal, Al-Hurra TV
01.11.2004 - Dhia Najim, Reuters
27.10.2004 - Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, Al-Sharqiya
14.10.2004 - Karam Hussein, European Pressphoto Agency
14.10.2004 - Dina Mohamad Hassan, Al Hurriya Television
7.10.2004 - Ahmad Jassem, Nivive television
12.09.2004 - Mazen al-Tomaizi, Al-Arabiya
26.08.2004 - Enzo Baldoni, Diario della settimana
15.08.2004 - Mahmoud Hamid Abbas, ZDF
15.08.2004 - Hossam Ali, freelance
03.06.2004 - Sahar Saad Eddine Nouami, Al-Mizan, Al-Khaima, Al-Hayat Al-Gadida
27.05.2004 - Kotaro Ogawa, Nikkan Gendai
27.05.2004 - Shinsuke Hashida, Nikkan Gendai
07.05.2004 - Waldemar Milewicz, TVP
07.05.2004 - Mounir Bouamrane, TVP
19.04.2004 - Assad Kadhim, Al-Iraqiya TV
26.03.2004 - Bourhan Mohammad al-Louhaybi, ABC News
18.03.2004 - Ali Al-Khatib, Al-Arabiya
18.03.2004 - Ali Abdel Aziz, Al-Arabiya
18.03.2004 - Nadia Nasrat, Diyala Television
28.10.2003 - Ahmed Shawkat, Bila Ittijah
17.08.2003 - Mazen Dana, Reuters
02.07.2003 - Ahmad Karim, Kurdistan Satellite TV
08.04.2003 - José Couso, Tele 5
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70167
08.04.2003 - Taras Protsyuk, Reuters
08.04.2003 - Tarek Ayoub, Al Jazeera
07.04.2003 - Christian Liebig, Focus
07.04.2003 - Julio Anguita Parrado, El Mundo
04.04.2003 - Michael Kelly, Washington Post
02.04.2003 - Kaveh Golestan, BBC
23.03.2003 - Terry Lloyd, ITV News
22.03.2003 - Paul Moran, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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16 Media assistants killed
02.09.2004 - Ismaïl Taher Mohsin, Associated Press
25.08.2004 - Jamal Tawfiq Salmane, Gazeta Wyborcza
29.05.2004 - Mahmoud Ismael Daood, bodyguard, Al-Sabah al-Jadid
29.05.2004 - Samia Abdeljabar, driver, Al-Sabah al-Jadid
27.05.2004 - Unknown, translator
25.05.2004 - Unknown, translator
21.05.2004 - Rachid Hamid Wali, cameraman assistant, Al-Jazira
29.04.2004 - Hussein Saleh, driver, Al-Iraquiya TV
26.03.2004 - Omar Hashim Kamal, translator, Time
18.03.2004 - Majid Rachid, technician, Diyala Television
18.03.2004 - Mohamad Ahmad, security agent, Diyala Television
27.01.2004 - Duraid Isa Mohammed, producer and translator, CNN
27.01.2004 - Yasser Khatab, driver, CNN
07.07.2003 - Jeremy Little, sound engineer, NBC
06.04.2003 - Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, translator, BBC
22.03.2003 - Hussein Othman, translator, ITV News
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the organisation "Reporters without Borders" or to use its abbreviation RSF did a lot of work and do a lot of work,
http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=461
but not without accusations that they are compromised by inteligence agencies. The secretary general of rsf, Robert Ménard is online at the moment for the afternoon in a chat organised by Le Monde:-
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/chat/0,46-0@2-3218,55-661366,0.html
She was joined today by her fellow former captive Hussein hannoun Al Saadi who came from Baghdad to face the national and francophone barrage of interest and admiration and -----.
fear. the word missing in the line above is *fear*
its not written near as much as it ought be.
it somehow doesn't suit us, its such an odd little word.
I have observed across teh long years, & I like many of the collective ;-) began "doing this" before the internet afforded it some advantages, that "*fear*" comes with all the other subjects of our sentances- "war", "corruption", "brutality", "starvation".
Florence Aubenas is a hero to her nation, and a champion of much of which her state arguably the strongest of any state-nation combination (jauyuzhes this sounds like rap!)
the combination of state and nation!
(go with it explore the medium)
television and hesitation!
(lets end it there)
http://www.liberation.fr/forum.php?Forum=468
while you are at that page checking out the latest messages of good will and support for Florence and Hussein, you can buy "10 years of Chirac" online with your credit card, for only €7.90 and it will be sent to you for a small nominal extra surcharge, for liveth do we now in a free and common market with single currency & you might be interested.
olé Florence pero.
She looks much better now, & few of us would wish deeply contemplate what she has described. But we ought to. its called *fear*