03 May 2007
Adel al-Badri and Unknown
Shooting
Gunmen attacked a local radio station in west Baghdad killing two employees and halting transmission.
Dozens of gunmen assaulted the independent Radio Dijla in the Jamia neighbourhood on Thursday and shot four technicians, two of them fatally. The electric generator operator and security guard Adel al-Badri were shot dead outside the building, before the gunmen entered the premises and sprayed the area with gunfire, wounding two other technicians before leaving. As they left, the gunmen fired a rocket propelled grenade into the building seriously damaging the equipment and cutting transmission. Acting station director Karim Yussef told the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that the attack had been preceded by an early morning kidnapping attempt against several radio employees. Located in the mostly Sunni western half of the city, an area rife with insurgents, Radio Dijla has been attacked several times. News editor Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi was murdered in December. Several broadcasters and employees of the station have been kidnapped.
