01 April 2005
Ahmed Jabbar Hashim
Beheading
Hashim, a reporter working for the Baghdad-based daily Al-Sabah, part of the U.S.-backed Iraq Media Network, was kidnapped on 25 March by an unidentified armed group.
His decapitated body was discovered on 1 April.
Insurgents have frequently targeted journalists working for U.S.-backed news outlets in Iraq. Some journalists reported that Hashim might have been killed because he had also done work for U.S. media.
Eight armed men in three cars ambushed the journalist while he was taking his daily route home. They decapitated him and sent a recording of the killing to Al-Sabah as a warning.
