Tareq Ayyoub
Year: 2003
Nationality:
Killed by: Military Officials
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Press organization: Al-Jazeera
What's Tareq Ayyoub's story?
Ayyoub, a Jordanian national working with the Qatar-based satellitechannel Al-Jazeera, was killed when a U.S. missile struck the station’sBaghdad bureau, which was located in a two-story villa in a residentialarea near the Iraqi Information Ministry and the former presidentialpalace compound of Saddam Hussein. Al-Jazeera cameraman Zouhair Nadhim,who was outside on the building’s roof with Ayyoub, was injured in theblast, which targeted a small electric generator outside the building.
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