April 8 - In just 24 hours, the number of journalists killed covering the war in Iraq has doubled and it is time now for both sides to stop targeting journalists, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) said today.
"It has been nothing less than a bloodbath," CJFE Executive Director Joel Ruimy said of the carnage last night and this morning that claimed the lives of two correspondents and three cameramen. "With these new deaths, a total of nine journalists have been killed covering this war. Another three have died from other causes.
"That compares with four journalists killed in the entire six-week Gulf War of 1991 and eight during the Afghanistan War in 2001."
