[Michael81Dus]

The German journalist is Christian Liebig, reporter for the most-read German weekly magazine FOCUS (focus.de). A kind of TIME magazine. Last week, he celebrated his 35th birthday among his "new friends" - how he called the US troops...

[retrokitten]

Thanks for that info. I hadn't heard too much about the reporters.

[Cboldt]

Thanks for that. Prayers for his family.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Michael, do you have a contact adress for FOCUS? We should all send our condolences to his co-workers and family.

[livius]

A bit of information - the Spanish reporter who was killed at the same time was the son of the well-known Spanish politician Julio Anguita, head of a hard left coalition named Izquierda Unida. He ran for president a few years ago and is a Communist who has been a feature of Spanish politics for years and years.

His son, the reporter, worked for the Spanish paper El Mundo, which is a paper that seems to have its own personal psychosis and expresses political positions all over the map (although usually really left wing).

Just some information, for what it's worth.