30 May 2007
Nezar Abdul Wahid al-Radi
Shooting
Gunmen killed Nezar Abdul Wahid al-Radi in the southern city of Amara as he prepared for a journalism workshop with colleagues.
"A group of three gunmen opened fire against Nezar Abdul Wahid al-Radi and five other journalists at 11:00 (0700 GMT) near al-Arousa Hotel in central Amara, killing him on the spot," said his Awsat al-Iraq news agency. Radi was hit by four bullets while his colleagues were unharmed.
The Awsat al-Iraq website is a clearing house for Iraqi media agencies to pool their resources to make up for a lack of a national news agency and was launched in March 2005 with support from United Nations Development Programme and the Reuters Foundation. Though officially in a province stable enough to no longer require coalition forces to maintain security, Amara is the site of frequent clashes between rival militias.
