Tareq Ayyoub
Tareq Ayyoub (
Biography
Born in
Death
On the morning of 8 April 2003, Ayyoub, along with his second cameraman, an Iraqi named Zuheir, was covering a pitched battle between the American and Iraqi troops from the roof of Al-Jazeera's Baghdad office.
Context
On the same day, the
Reaction
The United States claimed later that day that the death had been an accident, and that hostile fire had been seen originating from the Al Jazeera headquarters.[citation needed]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b "Foreign media suffer Baghdad losses," April 8, 2003, BBC News, retrieved September 11, 2022
- ^ Steele, Jonathan. "Obituary: Tareq Ayyoub." The Guardian. 9 April 2003. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
- ^ ISBN 1-84115-007-X.
- ^ "U.S. Faulted for Media Deaths". CBS News.
External links
- Al-Jazeera 'hit by missile' BBC News, 8 April 2003.
- Did the US murder these Journalists? at the Wayback Machine (archived March 16, 2005) Robert Fisk, SF Bay Guardian. 26 April 2003.
- IFJ calls for re-opening of investigation into Ayyoub's death, IFEX, 24 November 2005.
- The war on al-Jazeera Comment by Dima Tareq Tahboub, the widow of Tareq Ayyoub, The Guardian, 4 October 2003
- [1] Iraq memorial: Tariq Ayoub