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Tariq Ayoub

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Tariq Ayoub was a cameraman for the Al-Jazeera news channel. He was killed on April 8, 2003 when a US military plane launched a missile at Al-Jazeera's office in Baghdad, Iraq. The next day, US forces took Baghdad.

Al-Jazeera offices had been bombed by the US in Kabul, Afghanistan in November 2001 as well.

35 year old Ayoub was a Jordanian who left behind a wife and children. Prior to Al-Jazeera he had worked for the Associated Press and the Jordan Times.