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 IPS
REPORTER KILLED
IN
IRAQ (MaximsNews.com,
UN)
UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com/
- 5
July 2006 -- Journalist,
Alaa Hassan, a reporter
for the international
news agency IPS (Inter
Press Service), was shot
dead in Baghdad.
He
was ambushed
and machine-gunned in
his car.
The
35-year-old
correspondent was originally
from Babylon, in central
Iraq, and had been
living in Baghdad with
his new wife, who is
pregnant with their
first child.
Alaa
Hassan's death brings
the total of reporters
and other media killed
in Iraq since the
beginning of the
U.S.-led war to 131, as
reported by the
International Federation
of Journalists.
He
was crossing the al-Muthana
bridge over the Tigris
river when his car was
machine-gunned by
insurgents killing him
with six bullets wounds
and seriously injuring a
passenger.
Alaa
Hassan and his
colleague, Aaron Glantz,
reported on the violence
and sectarian divisions
in Basra; the untold
stories of Haditha which
was raided by the U.S.
forces; and the public
reactions when Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi was killed
by
Max Stamper, Ph.D.,
MaximsNews Publisher
& Editor-in-Chief,
and former United
Nations Official, U.N.
Department of
International Economic
and Social Affairs
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