Bomb Takes Death Toll of Journalists in Iraq War to 126

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Independent, January 30, 2008
By Patrick Cockburn

Iraq confirmed its reputation as the most dangerous country in the world for journalists this week when a roadside bomb killed an Iraqi television cameraman, Alaa Abdul-Karim al-Fartoosi, the first journalist to be killed in Iraq this year and the 126th since the start of the war.

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