09 May 2007
Raad Mutashar, Imad Abdul-Razzaq, and Aqil Abdul-Qadir
Shooting
Three Iraqi print journalists were killed in a drive-by shooting near the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
They were working for the independent Raad media company, which publishes several weekly newspapers and monthly magazines that deal with politics, education and arts. Those killed were identified as the company's director, Raad Mutashar, and three of his colleagues, Imad Abdul-Razzaq, Aqil Abdul-Qadir and Nibras Razzaq, the driver. Their attackers, armed with machine guns, opened fire as they drove past a vehicle carrying the journalists in the Rashad area south-west of Kirkuk.
