"This is an excerpt from a message written by Alive in Baghdad’s Brian Conley, posted to the Yahoo Videoblogging Group this morning."
"It’s with a pretty heavy heart that I am forced to inform everyone out there of the death of Alaa Adel, assistant to Isam Rasheed, one of our main 'videobloggers' or 'correspondents' based in Baghdad. Alaa seems to have been an integral, if mostly invisible piece of Alive in Baghdad through his work supporting Isam in gathering video and information about the situation around Baghdad.
He was killed on September 15th when he was apparently shot in the head by a US soldier, on his way to work at Isam’s home…
