Al-Jazeera TV intends to withdraw correspondents from Iraq, following killing
Qatar-Iraq, Politics, 4/9/2003

Chief editor of the news department at the Qatari space al-Jazira TV in Doha, Ibrahim Hilal, announced that the channel considers that its correspondents teams in Iraq have become in an insecure situation and intended to withdraw them after the killing of its correspondent, Tareq Ayoub, in Baghdad by the American bombardment.

On the sideline of a press conference held at al-Jazira headquarters in Doha, Hilal said "we could not ensure the security of our correspondents -- not only in Baghdad, rather in all Iraq -- and even those who are accompanying the American forces." Hilal said that al-Jazira wants to withdraw all its crew from Iraq and that "the correspondent in al-Nasereyah with the American forces was called back." He stressed that five technicians of al-Jazira team are now besieged at Abu Dhabi TV channel in Baghdad.

He said that al-Jazira correspondent in al-Mousel "was broadcasting his messages from a hospital but the hospital's administration asked him to leave the place because it thinks al-Jazira correspondent has become a target." Officials in al-Jazira contacted directly the widow of the late assassinated journalist Tareq Ayoub who asked for returning back his body to be buried in Jordan.

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