23 February 2006
Adnan Khairallah
Shooting
Adnan Khairallah , a sound engineer working for Al-Arabiya Television disappeared along with two other colleagues after giving a last live dispatch on 22 February.
Iraqi police confirmed that they were kidnapped and then assassinated in Samarra. The police sources said that a person who was with them managed to escape from the gunmen. The Al-Arabiya Television crew was covering the attack on the shrine of the two Shi'i imams, Ali al-Hadi and Al-Hasan al-Askari, north of Baghdad.