Mahmoud Hamid Abbas

Year: 2004

Nationality: Iraq

Killed by:

Location: Fallujah, Iraq

Press organization: Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

What's Mahmoud Hamid Abbas's story?

Abbas, 32, an Iraqi cameraman working for the German television stationZweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), was killed on assignment in Fallujah,said Ulrich Tilgner, ZDF’s Baghdad bureau chief. He said Abbas calledthe station to say he had filmed the bombardment of a house in Fallujahby U.S. forces and that he would be returning to Baghdad. Abbas called the station back a half hour later to say he had beencaught in heavy fighting, then the phone line went dead, Tilgner said.

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