08 September 2010
Safa al-Din Abdel Hamid
Shooting
Safa al-Din Abdel Hamid, an Al-Mosuliya television presenter was shot as he was leaving for work in front of his Mosul home by gunmen firing from a speeding car.
A father of six, Abdel Hamid had worked less than a year at Al-Mosuliya, a private channel that broadcasts in northern Iraq. His program "Our Mosques," detailed the history of historic religious sites in Mosul.
