Adnan Khairallah

Year: 2006

Nationality: Iraq

Killed by: Political Group

Location: Samarra, Iraq

Press organization: Wasan Productions and Al-Arabiya

What's Adnan Khairallah's story?

The bodies of correspondent Atwar Bahjat, cameraman Khaled Mahmoud al-Falahi, and engineer Adnan Khairallah were found near Samarra, a day after the station lostcontact with the crew, editors at Al-Arabiya told CPJ. Bahjat, 30, wasa well-known on-air figure. Al-Arabiya said she had recently joined thechannel after working as a correspondent for the Arabic satellitechannel Al-Jazeera.

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