12 February 2005
Dler Karam Ali
Shooting
On February 9, Dler Karam Ali, a Kurdish journalist working for the Al-Ittihad Al-Isalmi and Al-Ofoq Al-Islami newspapers and also a member of the IFJ-affiliated Kurdistan Syndicate of Journalists, was shot and injured by US forces on the road between Baghdad and Darbandikhan, in Northern Iraq.
He died 3 days later in hospital. He was passing through a US military checkpoint on his way to cover the elections when US soldiers on duty asked the car to stop, the driver refused and the soldiers started shooting at the car, seriously injuring Karam Ali.
