To journalister drept i Bagdad

To jour­na­lis­ter som arbei­det for ABC News ble skutt og drept i Bag­dad tors­dag kveld.

Two Iraqi jour­na­lists wor­king for ABC News were ambus­hed and kil­led as they drove home from work, the tele­vi­sion network announ­ced Friday.

The attack took place Thurs­day after­noon when unk­nown assai­lants attacked the car car­ry­ing camera­man Alaa Uldeen Aziz, 33, and sound­man Saif Laith Yousuf, 26, from the network’s Bag­h­dad bureau, ABC News Pre­si­dent David Westin said in a state­ment pos­ted on the ABC News Web site.

Jour­na­lists have been fre­quently targe­ted by vio­lence in
Iraq. The New York-based Com­mittee to Pro­tect Jour­na­lists has recor­ded 102 jour­na­lists and 39 media sup­port wor­kers kil­led and 48 jour­na­lists abducted since the 2003 U.S.-led inva­sion of Iraq. Those num­bers do not include those kil­led in the latest attack.

Last week, three jour­na­lists were kil­led along with their dri­ver in a drive-by shoo­ting near the northern city of Kirkuk. Gun­men also stor­med the offices of the inde­pen­dent Radio Dijla in a pre­do­mi­nantly Sunni area in western Bag­h­dad ear­lier this month, kil­ling two emp­loy­ees and woun­ding five before destroy­ing the buil­ding and knock­ing the sta­tion off the air.

2 jour­na­lists wor­king for ABC killed