Salih Saif Aldin
Year: 2007
Nationality:
Killed by: Political Group
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Press organization: The Washington Post
What's Salih Saif Aldin's story?
Saif Aldin, 32, was killed at close range by a single gunshot to the head while photographing fire-damaged houses on a street in Baghdad’s southern neighborhood of Al-Saydiya, the Post reported. Saif Aldin was on assignment interviewing residents about sectarian violence raging between Shiite militias and Sunni insurgents in the neighborhood, long a center of violence, the newspaper said. The Post reported that a man used Saif Aldin’s cell phone to inform an employee at the paper that the journalist was killed.
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