Steven Vincent, whose work has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and his female Iraqi translator were abducted at gunpoint by five men Tuesday evening as they left a currency exchange shop, police Lt. Col. Karim al-Zaidi said.
Vincent's body was discovered on the side of the highway south of Basra later. He had been shot in the head and multiple times in the body, al-Zaidi said.
Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, a popular presenter who had worked for Iraqi state television before the war, was killed by gunmen Oct. 27, 2004 on her way home from work at al-Sharqiya television in Baghdad.
Abdul-Razzaq, mother of a 6-year-old boy and a month-old baby girl, was killed only two months after her husband was murdered. The motive for the killings was not clear.
Dina Mohamad Hassan, an Iraqi journalist, was gunned down Oct. 14, 2004 in the Baghdad neighborhood of Al-Adhamiya. She worked for Al-Hurriya, a TV station run by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) which is headed by a Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani.
Witnesses said Tomeizi was killed Sept. 12, 2004 when a U.S. helicopter fired into a crowd of Iraqis cheering around a military vehicle torched during fighting in Haifa street, an area widely known as a stronghold for anti-U.S. insurgents. Reuters cameraman Seif Fouad was wounded in one of the subsequent rocket strikes.
Baldoni, 56, a part-time journalist whose main job was as an advertising copy writer, went to Iraq for the news magazine Diario. Arab television reported Aug. 26 it received video footage of Baldoni being killed by militants but did not broadcast tape because of gruesome content.
Translator Hussein Osman of Lebanon, had been missing since the shooting incident March 22 in southern Iraq in which Terry Lloyd was killed. DNA tests carried out by British military investigators indicate that remains found at the site of the gunbattle were those of Osman.
Wali, assistant cameraman and fixer for the Qatar-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera, was killed by gunfire May 20 in the Iraqi city of Karbala. The father of six was filming fighting in the southern city of Karbala where U.S. forces are battling to put down a weeks-old rebellion by militiamen loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
Mazhour was shot in the head while covering clashes in Falluja and taken to a hospital there, where he died shortly afterwards. Witnesses said U.S. troops fired at him. The U.S. military said it had no information about the incident.
Omar Hashim Kamal, Time magazine translator, of Iraq
Time magazine said Kamal was shot on March 24 in Baghdad and had been in critical condition at an American military hospital in the Iraqi capital. He died March 26. Kamal is survived by a wife and 4-year-old son.
Ali Abdelaziz, Al Arabiya cameraman, of Iraq
Ali Abdelaziz, a cameraman working for Dubai-based satellite television channel Al Arabiya, was shot and killed by U.S. troops on March 18. A second Iraqi journalist, Ali al-Khatib, dies the next day from wounds sustained in the same incident.
Mohammed Farhan, Majeed Rashid, Nadia Shawkat; employees of Diyala TV, of Iraq
Gunmen open fire on a minibus March 18, killing three Iraqi journalists and wounding nine other employees of a coalition-funded TV station in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
Safir Nader and Haymin Mohamed Salih, cameramen with Qulan TV; Abdel Sattar Abdel Karim, freelance photographer for Arabic-language daily Al Ta'akhy; Ayoub Mohamed and Gharib Mohamed Salih, of Kurdistan TV; Semko Karim Mohyideen, freelance journalist
Killed on Feb. 1 in twin suicide bombings on offices of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Kurdistan Democratic Party in Irbil.
CNN said in a broadcast that the pair was returning from an assignment Jan. 27, 2004 in a two-car convoy that came under attack. A CNN cameraman in the second car was grazed in the head by a bullet but was safe, the network said. It said correspondent Michael Holmes was also in the car along with three other people but none of them were hurt.
The vehicles were traveling toward the Baghdad suburb of Mahmoudiya when a rust-colored Opel came up behind one car. A gunman, standing through the sunroof, opened fire at the convoy with an AK-47, the network said.
The car with Holmes and wounded cameraman Scott McWhinnie escaped as an armed security adviser who was with them returned fire.
Mazen Dana, 43, was shot and killed by U.S. soldiers Aug. 17, 2003 while videotaping near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. The U.S. Army said its soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
Michael Kelly died April 3 while traveling with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division as it moved across Iraq, according to a statement issued by Atlantic Media. He was the first American journalist to die in the conflict.
Kaveh Golestan, 52, an Iranian freelance cameraman for the BBC, died instantly April 2 when he stepped on a land mine as he climbed out of his car in the town of Kifrey.
The British television news network ITN has said it believes its reporter Terry Lloyd was killed March 22 by "friendly fire" from British or American soldiers en route to the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
He was one of a four-man ITV News team came under fire, apparently from coalition forces, outside the city. Iraqi ambulances took a number of dead and injured from the area into the city.
His body is believed to lie in a Basra hospital under Iraqi control.
Lloyd, a seasoned war correspondent who also had covered conflicts in Cambodia and the Balkans, was ITN's longest-serving reporter and was the first ITN correspondent to be killed on assignment in the network's 48-year history, the network said.
"Terry was brave, he was determined and he was safety conscious," said ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis. "He was a lovely guy."
Lloyd was 50, and married with two children.
The whereabouts of Lloyd's colleague, cameraman Fred Nerac, 43, of France, is unknown.
The Foreign Ministry said Frederic Nerac, who works for Britain's Independent Television News, ITN, had been hurt, but it had no information on his condition or current whereabouts.
It was the first information about Nerac since the attack which killed British ITN reporter Terry Lloyd.
The crew had been driving toward the southern city of Basra when they came under fire.
Veteran Los Angeles Times correspondent Mark Fineman died Sept. 23 of an apparent heart attack while working in Baghdad. Fineman and fellow Times correspondent Alissa J. Rubin were waiting in the offices of the Iraqi Governing Council for an interview when he complained of chest pains and collapsed. He was rushed to a hospital but doctors could not revive him.
Mazen Tomeizi, 26, Al Arabiya TV producer, of Palestine
Enzo Baldoni, 56, freelance journalist, of Italy
Hussein Osman, translator, of Lebanon
Kotaro Ogawa, 33, freelance journalist, of Japan
Waldemar Milewicz, 47, TVP television correspondent, of Poland
Tarek Ayyoub, 35, Al-Jazeera producer and correspondent, of Jordan
Jose Couso, 37, Tele 5 cameraman, of Spain
Taras Protsyuk, 35, Reuters cameraman, of the Ukraine
Christian Liebig, 35, Focus magazine, of Germany
Julio Anguita Parrado, 32, El Mundo reporter, of Spain
Michael Kelly, 46, Washington Post columnist
Kaveh Golestan, 52, BBC cameraman, of Iran
Paul Moran, 39, Australian Broadcasting Corp. cameraman
Fred Nerac, cameraman, 43, of France
David Bloom, 39, NBC correspondent
Gaby Rado, 48, Channel 4 TV reporter, of Britain