More journalists have been killed in Iraq so far this year than in all of 2009, according to the International Press Institute.
The IPI statement followed the death of Tahrir Kadhim Jawad, a cameraman for the al-Hurra satellite channel, who was killed on Monday by a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to his car.
"Jawad is the fifth journalist to be killed in Iraq this year, and the third to be killed there in less than a month," said the IPI in pointing out that journalists were killed in Iraq in 2009 (compared to 14 the previous year and 42 in 2007).
