Saturday, July 28, 2007


Jul. 28, 2007 (Xinhua News Agency delivered by Newstex) -- Iraqi journalist died of wounds in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, July 28 (Xinhua) -- An Iraqi journalist working for a Kuwaiti-owned satellite channel died of wounds sustained from a sniper gunshot in Baghdad, a local watchdog said on Saturday.

'Adnan al-Safi, a reporter of the al-Anwar space channel, died on Friday morning after being shot by a sniper in the head on Wednesday,' the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO) said in a statement.

Safi was shot while he was leaving his office in Baghdad's central neighborhood of Utaifiyah, the statement said.

The victim, 40, a father of three children, was also the head of the Federation of Islamic Journalism and an advisor for the Iraqi Journalists' Union.

More than 230 Iraqi media workers have been killed in the country since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to count of the Iraqi Journalists' Union based in Baghdad.

The Paris-based media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, describes the dangers faced by journalists in Iraq since the start of the war in 2003 the bloodiest since World War II.

Newstex ID: XIN-0001-18486592


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