05 April 2007
Thaer Ahmed Jabr and Husain Nizaer
Explosion
A senior Iraqi journalist and a journalist trainee were killed on Thursday when a suicide truck bomb exploded outside a television channel's headquarters, the leading Sunni political party that owns the network said.
"The Baghdad TV headquarters was targeted by a cowardly car bomb attack followed by a gun attack, killing deputy bureau chief the journalist Thaer Ahmed Jabr," the Iraqi Islamic Party said in a statement. Another 12 employees of the 24-hour television channel were wounded, some of them seriously, it added.
