뉴욕 타임스의 바그다드 지국 기자인 칼리드 W. 하산 기자가 오늘 아침 출근길에 피살되었다. 그는 이라크 사태를 취재하다가 죽은 두번째 뉴욕 타임스 지국 직원이다. 2003년 이라크 전쟁 이후 약100명의 기자가 취재중 피살되었다. 용감한 기자들 덕분에 우리는 편안하게 안방에서 이라크 사태의 전개과정을 알 수 있다. 사실을 전하기 위해서 목숨을 건 기자들의 직업정신에 경의를 표한다. 기자의 특권을 악용하여 남북한의 좌파정권을 위해 봉사하는, 기자로 위장한 한국의 어용 선전원들을 생각한다. 그들은 쓰레기 같은 이데올로기와 편견으로써 언론의 윤리를 파괴하고 사실을 포기한다. 사실에 목숨을 거는 기자와 정권에 목을 거는 자칭 기자들의 차이이다.
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New York Times Journalist Killed in Baghdad
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Published: July 13, 2007
Khalid W. Hassan, 23, an interpreter and reporter in the Baghdad bureau of The New York Times, was shot and killed today, the bureau chief, John F. Burns, reported. He was the second Iraqi employee of the Times to be killed during the current conflict.

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Khalid Hassan, who worked for The New York Times, was killed in Baghdad today.

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Mr. Hassan was shot in the Seiydia district of south central Baghdad while driving to work under circumstances that remain unclear, Mr. Burns said. He had called the bureau earlier and said his normal route to the office had been blocked by a security checkpoint.

“I’m trying to find another way,” he told the bureau staff.

About a half an hour he called his mother, with whom he lived, telling her, “I’ve been shot.”

His family later called the bureau to report that he had been killed.

Bill Keller, the executive editor of the Times, issued this statement: “Khalid was part of a large, sometimes unsung, community of Iraqi news-gatherers, translators and support staff, who take enormous risks every day to help us comprehend their country’s struggle and torment.

“Without them, Americans’ understanding of what is happening on the ground in Iraq would be much, much poorer. To The Times, Khalid was family, and his death is heartbreaking.”

Mr. Hassan was one of the longest-serving local members of the bureau, having joined in the fall of 2003. He was of Palestinian descent; his family had fled to Iraq after the conflict with Israel in 1948. He lived with his mother and four sisters, all under the age of 18.

Fakher Haider, 38, a Times stringer in the city of Basra, was killed in similarly mysterious circumstances on Sept 19, 2005.

Mr. Burns described Mr. Hassan as “a resourceful and brave member of our news team, who met the many professional and personal challenges of his four years on our staff with enduring good humor and optimism.”

He was to be buried later today in a cemetery in northeast Baghdad and a memorial service was scheduled in the bureau.

Over 100 journalists, most of them Iraqis, have been killed since the 2003 invasion, the Committee to Protect Journalists has reported.

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