23 September 2007
Jawad al-Daami
Shooting
Gunmen ambushed and killed an Iraqi television presenter working with the private Al-Baghdadiyah channel.
The journalist, Jawad al-Daami, was ambushed in the western Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Qadisiyah as he was driving through the area on Sunday. Gunmen opened fire on his car and Daami was killed instantly. Daami, 40, and a father of four, is the second journalist to be killed in Iraq within a week.