Tareq Ayyoub

Ayyoub was killed in 2003 when two missiles, fired from by an American ground-attack aircraft, struck the Baghdad headquarters of the Al Jazeera Satellite Channel during the 2003 US-led Invasion of Iraq.

Maher Abdullah, the station's Baghdad correspondent, witnessed the A-10's attack run and gave the following description, "The plane was flying so low that those of us downstairs thought it would land – that's how close it was.

It was a direct hit – the missile actually exploded against our electrical generator, and Tareq died almost at once, Zuheir was injured.

"[3] On the same day, the Abu Dhabi satellite station was hit by 'Army Fire' in a different section of Baghdad,[4] and an American tank fired shells at Palestine Hotel, killing journalists Taras Protsyuk of Reuters and Jose Couso of the Spanish television station, Telecinco.

[1] The United States claimed later that day that the death had been an accident, and that hostile fire had been seen originating from the Al Jazeera headquarters.