[5] Moran's working relationship with the Rendon Group and the Iraqi National Congress (INC) led to a high-profile international news story that purported to document a covert Iraqi program to develop weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq War.
[5] Moran worked for the ABC of Australia and he was travelling from Sulaymaniyah to a base that had been struck by US missiles and belonged to the Ansar al-Islam on 22 March 2003.
He spent a year making a documentary about refugees and the humanitarian issues they faced, en titled, Dangerously Adrift.
[9] Eric Campbell, who is a journalist for ABC TV, blamed Mullah Krekar, a Salafist of Ansar al-Islam, for the attack.
[12] Koïchiro Matsuura, the director of UNESCO, said, "In a war that also includes a fierce media battle, the task of seeking independent information is especially vital if world public opinion is to avoid being the target of manipulation and propaganda" and the killing of journalists like Moran was a violation of Article 79 of the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Convention.