Baghdad staff remember dead friends

About 80 people including other foreign media in Baghdad and members of the two families attended the commemoration.

“Namir and Saeed’s deaths were a tragedy,” editor-in-chief David Schlesinger said in remarks read on his behalf. “Their energy, their professionalism, their friendship, their personalities - these are the memories that represent all that is best about our colleagues in Iraq and our colleagues around the world.”

A collection of Namir’s news pictures was shown during the commemoration and the Iraqi Photographers Association presented the bureau with a plaque.

Reuters is seeking US military video footage of the killings shot from the two Apache helicopters on 12 July 2007. The U.S. military said in an e-mail on Friday it was still processing Reuters’ year-old request.

Nine other people were also killed in the attack.

Four other journalists working for Reuters - Taras Protsyuk, Mazen Dana, Dhia Najim and Waleed Khaled - have been killed by American soldiers in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003. ■