Dhia Najim
Year: 2004
Nationality: Iraq
Killed by: Military Officials
Location: Ramadi, Iraq
Press organization: freelance
What's Dhia Najim's story?
Najim, an Iraqi freelance cameraman, was shot and killed in the westerncity of Ramadi, where he had been covering a gun battle between theU.S. military and Iraqi insurgents. Najim, who worked for a number of news organizations, was on assignmentfor Reuters that day. He was shot in the back of the neck while workingnear his home in the Andalus District of Ramadi, 70 miles (112 kilometers)west of the capital, Baghdad, Reuters said. “Video shot from an upper floor of a building nearby shows Najim,at first half-hidden by a wall, move into the open,” Reuters reported.
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