Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is seen in this undated photograph received in London on March 10, 2011. Britain's Guardian newspaper said on Thursday it was making urgent attempts to trace one of its correspondents who has gone missing in Libya where he has been covering the recent unrest. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an Iraqi national, who had been reporting from western Libya for the last two weeks, had not been in contact with the paper since Sunday, the Guardian said on its website. REUTERS/Martin Argles/Guardian/Handout
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I have been following the work of Ghaith since 2003. He is an excellent journalist and photo-journalist. Some of his photographs in the book UNEMBEDDED show a harrowing event in Baghdad in September 2004 where the US troops in gunships shot and killed an al Arabiya report while he was live on air. Twenty one other civilians were killed, and many more injured in this incident.
I have a bad feeling about this report that he is missing. He left Iraq and moved to Britain, but he kept going back to war zones again and again. He did a lot to promote truth in the world.
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