Since January this year, 48 journalists and other media workers have been "killed in cold blood" in Iraq, journalists' rights group Reporters without Borders said Tuesday in Paris, according to dpa. The press in Iraq suffered higher casualties in 2006 than in any other year, the organization said. Journalists are attacked more than Iraqi politicians, Reporters without Borders noted. While the politicians' place of work was in the heavily-guarded Green Zone, journalists had to operate unprotected on the streets. On October 12, 11 people were killed in an attack on a new Iraqi television channel.
