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Australian Cameraman Killed in Iraq

The Australian Broadcasting Corp has confirmed that one of its freelance cameramen has been killed . Reporters Without Borders said the as yet unidentified cameraman was killed
... in an attack Kurdish officials blamed on a militant Islamic group, Ansar al-Islam, which Washington has linked with the al-Qaeda network.

"He was a freelancer, an Australian cameraman on assignment for the ABC. He was killed in a suicide bombing, the attack is apparently being blamed on an Islamic militant group," a spokeswoman told Reuters.

....The Paris media body said a photographer who witnessed the attack had said it appeared to be aimed at the many journalists present at the time.

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