31 May 2006
Jaafar Ali
Shooting
Jaafar Ali, TV sports presenter, was gunned down in Baghdad.
Gunmen shot Ali as he left his home in Chora Rabia, a neighbourhood in south Baghdad. He is the 11th employee of the national TV station Al-Iraqiya to be killed since the start of the war in March 2003. Al-Iraqiya has had more employees killed than any other media since the start of the war. It is part of the Iraqi Media Network, who is close to the Shiite parties currently in the government.
