Washington Post reporter is killed in Iraq

InfinityGoddess · Oct 15, 2007

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/14/AR2007101400612.html

BAGHDAD, Oct. 14 -- On Sunday afternoon, Salih Saif Aldin set out for one of Baghdad's most dangerous neighborhoods. He knew exactly where to go. He nodded, smiled, grabbed his camera. There was nothing he needed to say.

Saif Aldin always came back -- from death threats, from beatings, from kidnappings, from detentions by American soldiers, from the country's most notorious and deadly terrain -- but on Sunday he didn't. The 32-year-old Iraqi reporter in The Washington Post's Baghdad bureau was shot once in the forehead in the southwestern neighborhood of Sadiyah. He was the latest in a long line of reporters, most of them Iraqis, to be killed while covering the Iraq war. He was the first for The Washington Post.

Tragic. Really tragic.

tourdeforce · Oct 15, 2007

I will save billy the trouble on this one-

"...Salih Saif Aldin..."

'nuff said.

SC Harrison · Oct 15, 2007

I'll say it again—I'm astounded at the bravery exhibited by journalists in all areas of conflict, and specifically in Iraq.

I'd be scared shitless if I had a gun to protect me. But a camera?

If it was one of those James Bond gun-masquerading-as-a-camera things, maybe.

Washington Post reporter is killed in Iraq

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