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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