IRAQ WAR MEDIA CASUALTIES

January 27 - Two CNN employees, translator/producer Duraid Isa Mohammed, 27, and driver Yasser Khatab, 25, were killed in a drive-by shooting on the southern outskirts of Baghdad. A gunman fired at them with an AK-47 rifle, standing through the sunroof of a rust-coloured Opel which ambushed them from behind. At least five shots hit the lead car in a two-car convoy returning to Baghdad from an assignment in the southern city of Hilla. A bullet grazed the head of cameraman Scott McWhinnie who was travelling in another vehicle.

October 28 - Ahmed Shawkat, editor of the weekly Bilah Ittijah (Without Direction), was shot and killed by one or more gunmen at his office in Mosul. According to press reports, a gunman and an accomplice followed Shawkat to the roof of his office in the afternoon. One local journalist said Shawkat was on the roof making a call from his satellite telephone when he was shot.

August 17 - Mazen Dana, 43, an award-winning Reuters cameraman, was shot dead by soldiers on a US tank while he was filming near US-run Abu Ghraib prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad. Dana, a Palestinian, was awarded an International Press Freedom Award in 2001 by the Committee to Protect Journalists for his work in Hebron where he was wounded and beaten many times.

July 6 - Jeremy Little, 27, an Australian freelance soundman working for US-based television network NBC, was injured in a grenade attack in Fallujah on June 29 while embedded with US troops. He died of "post-operative complications," according to an NBC statement. Little was embedded with the US 3rd Infantry Division and had been receiving treatment at a military hospital in Germany.

July 5 - Richard Wild, 24, a freelance British journalist, was killed in Baghdad when he was shot at close range near a museum in an area that includes a mixture of residences and shops. He had previously worked for Independent Television News in London.

April 14 - Mario Podesta, an Argentine freelance journalist travelling in a convoy of press vehicles 80 km from Baghdad, was killed in a car crash. Veronica Cabrera, an Argentine freelance camerawoman, died of her injuries on April 15.

April 12 - An Iraqi interpreter working with three Malaysian journalists was killed when gunmen ambushed and kidnapped them as they were travelling in two vans in Baghdad. Two Malaysian doctors were wounded in the attack. The journalists, Terence Fernandez, a reporter for The Sun newspaper, Anuar Hashim, a New Straits Times photographer, and Omar Salleh, a cameraman with Radio Television Malaysia, were released the same day.

April 8 - Taras Protsyuk, a Warsaw-based Ukrainian cameraman working for Reuters, and Jose Couso, a Spanish cameraman working for Telecinco, died in hospital after a US tank fired on the Palestine Hotel, a Baghdad hotel used as a base by foreign media. Lebanese-born Samia Nakhoul, Reuters` Gulf bureau chief based in Dubai, and Iraqi photographer Faleh Kheiber suffered facial and head wounds and concussion. Television satellite dish coordinator Paul Pasquale, a Briton, suffered leg wounds.

April 8 - Tarek Ayoub, a Jordanian reporter-producer for Al-Jazeera television, died in hospital from wounds sustained in a US missile strike on the Arab satellite network`s Baghdad office. A second member of Al-Jazeera`s Baghdad crew, Zohair al-Iraqi, was slightly wounded in the attack, which set the Qatar-based network`s office ablaze.

April 7 - Christian Liebig of the German weekly magazine Focus and Julio Anguita Parrado of the Spanish newspaper El Mundo were killed in an Iraqi missile strike on a camp set up by a brigade of the US Army`s 3rd Infantry Division as its tactical command and control centre south of Baghdad.

April 6 - Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, a Kurdish translator working for the BBC in northern Iraq, was killed when the convoy he was travelling in was bombed, apparently by US forces. BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson and other members of the crew were wounded.

April 6th - Kamran Abdul Razak, Kurdish translator for the British BBC News network..Possibly same person as above with a differently translated name.

April 5th - David Bloom, embedded journalist, NBC News Network, died of natural causes.

April 4 - Michael Kelly, editor-at-large for Atlantic Monthly and a Washington Post columnist, was killed in a Humvee accident while travelling with the US Army`s 3rd Infantry Division. His death was the first among 600 correspondents embedded with US military forces.

April 2 - Kaveh Golestan, a Tehran-based Pulitzer Prize-winning freelance cameraman working for the BBC, died instantly when he stepped on a landmine as he got out of a car near the town of Kifri, northern Iraq. Producer Stuart Hughes, who was travelling with him, was injured. Correspondent Jim Muir and their local translator were unhurt.

March 30 - Gaby Rado, foreign affairs correspondent for Britain`s Channel 4 television, was found dead in the car park in front of his hotel in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq. He was believed to have fallen from the roof of the hotel.

March 23 - Terry Lloyd, a journalist from Britain`s Independent Television News, was killed after coming under fire from US-British forces on the way to Basra. Two other members of the ITN crew, French cameraman Fred Nerac and Lebanese fixer Hussein Osman, are still missing. Belgian freelance cameraman Daniel Demoustier was wounded.

March 22 - Paul Moran, a cameraman from Australian ABC TV network, was killed by a car bomb in northern Iraq. ABC correspondent Eric Campbell, who was with him, was wounded. The attack was at a checkpoint outside the village of Khormal, near the Iranian border. The journalists were waiting to enter the village to talk to refugees when a taxi appeared behind them and exploded. Kurdish officials blamed militant Islamic group Ansar al-Islam, which Washington has linked to al-Qaeda.

IRAQ WAR MEDIA HOSTAGES

Molly Bingham, freelance photographer, taken hostage on March 25th, 2003 and released on April 1st, 2003

John Feder, photographer, The Australian Newspaper, detained in Iraq under house arrest since March 30th, 2003.

Marcin Firlej, reporter, TVN24 News of Poland, taken hostage on April 7th, 2003 and released on April 8th, 2003.

Jakec Kaczmarek, reporter with the Polish State Radio, taken hostage on April 7th, 2003 and released on April 8th, 2003.

Matt McAllester, New York Newsday, taken hostage on March 25th, 2003 and released on April 1st, 2003.

Ian McPhedran, journalist, News Limited, detained in Iraq under house arrest since March 30th, 2003.

Moises Saman, New York Newsday, taken hostage on March 25th, 2003 and released on April 1st, 2003.

Johan Rydeng Spanner, Freelance photographer, taken hostage on March 25th, 2003 and released on April 1st, 2003.

Peter Wilson, journalist, The Australian Newspaper, detained in Iraq under house arrest since March 30th, 2003.

Un-named journalists detained under house arrest in Iraq since March 25th, 2003 and now possibly released include ones from the following media networks...

Il Messagero Newspaper.

L'Unita Newspaper.

Il Sol 24 Ore Newspaper.

Il Giornale Newspaper.

La Nazione Newspaper.

Il Mattino Newspaper.

Corriere Della Sera Newspaper.