Ahmad Kareem
Year: 2003
Nationality: Iraq
Killed by: Military Officials
Location: Mosul, Iraq
Press organization: Kurdistan TV
What's Ahmad Kareem's story?
Kareem, director of Kurdistan TV’s Mosul bureau, was shot and killed by U.S. forces outside the bureau’s office along the Tigris River. Kurdistan TV staff and an official from the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which runs Kurdistan TV, told CPJ that Kareem was sitting outside with a colleague writing a news report when a U.S. river patrol exchanged fire with an armed group situated on the same river bank as Kurdistan TV. Kareem and his colleague were shot as they sought refuge in the bureau. The colleague, a cameraman, survived.
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