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Infomaniac: WeBlog
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Not a target
But a Knight Ridder correspondent was shot to death in Iraq by an Army sniper last week. Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi doctor, took a job working with KR's journalists because his job at a Baghdad hospital didn't pay enough to live on. He was shot as he drove his car through an intersection where an Army patrol was searching a building.
When I posted the interactive map of Iraq casualties last week, a reader wondered why civilians weren't included. Salihee's death is just one of those tens of thousands of deaths that don't go reported in any official report, so they might as well not exist. The Iraq Body Count is using volunteers reading the world press to come up with numbers of civilian deaths (their latest count is 22-25,000) but they got a lot of flak when they started. Iraqi Civilian War Casualties is a site by a civic group that lists names of the dead when available. ICasualties.org doesn't even attempt to count civilians, although they do list contractors...and journalists. At least Salihee's death will be listed there, and on the Reporters Without Borders Website. (Added later): A closer look at the Iraqi Civilian War Casualties site, which I hadn't seen before, reveals that it was the result of a door-to-door survey covering three months in 2003 organized by Raed Jarrar, who also has the Raed in the Middle blog. Raed, you may remember, was the subject of Salam Pax's pioneering blog from Iraq, titled 'Where is Raed?' 'Salam' also published a diary of the casualty survey. The 'Where is Raed?' blog hasn't been updated in several months, but Salam maintains a media presence with a book and TV and blog appearances on occasion. His latest blog is called Shut up you fat whiner, and is being updated frequently now. posted by liz at 10:08 AM 
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