Three killed, Iraqi TV cameraman maimed in bomb attack

BAGHDAD  ( 2008-04-02 16:09:40 ) : 

Three people were killed and 13 others wounded, including a cameraman with Iraq's independent Al-Diyar satellite television, in a roadside bombing in Baghdad on Wednesday, officials said.
A security official said the bomb exploded in the eastern neighbourhood of Talbiyah and killed three people.
Thirteen people, including Al-Diyar cameraman Maytham Ibrahim, were wounded in the attack, the official said.
Ibrahim survived but lost a leg, news editor Imed al-Abadi of the station told AFP.
Ibrahim is being treated in Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City, the sprawling bastion of the Mahdi Army militia of powerful Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that bore the brunt of violence this week.
The station has asked for him to be transferred to a more sophisticated facility in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Abadi said.
The Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, meanwhile, has called for the release of Ahmed Mahmud Hassan, a journalist for Al-Sumariya satellite television channel.
It said Hassan was arrested on March 30 in Mahmudiyah, 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of Baghdad, "while covering clashes between Iraqi forces and rebel insurgents."
The journalist is thought to be detained at a military base, Reporters Without Borders said.
"A score of journalists have been arrested across Iraq since the start of 2008," it said. "Arbitrary arrest has become commonplace in Iraq. The Iraqi authorities must stop this growing obstruction to the work of the media."
According to the Iraqi Journalists Freedom Observatory (JFO), which monitors violence against the media, 233 Iraqi and foreign journalists and media workers have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion of March 2003.