11 June 2007
Aref Ali
Crossfire
A journalist working for the independent Aswat al-Iraq news agency was blown up by a roadside bomb in the volatile province of Diyala north of Baghdad, the third agency employee to be killed in the past two weeks.
The agency said in a statement that Aref Ali, 32, was killed while on assignment in Diyala, where violence has spiked as al Qaeda and other Sunni insurgents battle U.S. and Iraqi troops. Aswat al-Iraq said Ali was hit by a roadside bomb near the town of Khalis, north of Baghdad.
