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LONDON, Dec 27, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- With more than 160 members of the world's media having been killed in Iraq, media leaders have called for further protection of journalists from attacks.
The Daily Mail reported that with all of the media deaths having occurred in Iraq since 2003, officials with the International Federation of Journalists asked the U.N. Security Council to appropriately address the growing issue of media safety.
"We need more safety training, better equipment to protect media staff at work and more humanitarian aid," said Aidan White, the general-secretary of the journalists' group, "but most of all we need political will to bring an end to the targeting and killings of media people."
The federation's proposal was echoed by Moaid El Lami of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate, who has seen more than 10 percent of his fellow journalists in Iraq killed during the ongoing conflict.
"Our colleagues are being targeted by killers on all sides," he told the Daily Mail. "It is an intolerable ordeal that must be recognized by all governments."
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