Journalist Serwa Abdul-Wahab Killed In The Streets Of Mosul Sunday

Gunmen pulled reporter Serwa Abdul-Wahab from the taxi she was riding in, shooting her once in the head. As the woman laid dead in the street of Mosul, she joined the ranks of journalists who have been killed in Iraq for reporting the news.

There are conflicting reports to who Serwa Abdul-Wahab worked for in Iraq. Fellow journalists say that she contributed to www.muraslon.org. an Iraqi news site.

Iraq is the most dangerous place in the world to work as a journalist. Since 2003 the Committee to Protect Journalists based in New York estimates 127 journalists have died. That figure does not include Abdul-Wahab yet.

In a nation where there are so many cultural and religious conflicts journalists have been targeted for the very nature of their work. Reporting on any one side of the conflict will bring forth enemies from the other sides.

In February Shihab al-Tamimi, 74, was gunned down in an attack on his car. He was the head of Iraq’s biggest journalist organization.

CPJ says that three journalists have been killed so far in 2008 while Reuters puts the number at 5.

Not only is Iraq a dangerous region for journalists to cover the news but it has a horrible track record in bringing justice for the murders. At this time there are 79 unsolved journalistic murders.

In Mosul journalists struggle to both bring the news and remain low profile. Al Qaeda has threatened those who attempt to bring forth current news in the area. Mosul is the last city stronghold of the Sunni Islamist group.

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