Atwar Bahjat
- January 11, 2024
- Journalist
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Atwar Bahjat Biography
| Birthday | Jun 7 |
| Birth Year | 1976 |
Atwar Bahjat is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on June 7, 1976 in Samarra, Iraq. Atwar Bahjat (Arabic: أطوار بهجت ; 7 June 1976 – 22 February 2006) was an Iraqi journalist. Initially a reporter for Iraq’s state-controlled television under Saddam Hussein, Bahjat became a popular television correspondent for al-Jazeera and later al-Arabiya following the US invasion of Iraq. On 22 February 2006, Bahjat was hunted down and shot in cold blood along with her colleagues Adnan Al Dulaimi and Khalid Al Fellahi while covering a story in Samarra.
On 22 February 2006, the Shia Al Askari Mosque in Samarra was hit by a bomb attack, which triggered waves of retaliatory violence between Sunnis and Shias. Bahjat persuaded her editors to let her travel to the scene.
In 2009, Yasser al-Takhi was captured along with his brothers and forced to make a videotape confession to Bahjat’s rape and murder which was then televised to the nation on Iraqi Television. He was sentenced to death by hanging in a trial criticized by Amnesty International as falling short of international standards given the Iraqi government’s routine use of torture to extract confessions. On 16 November 2011 Al Takhi was hanged.
The official government story of what happened next and who the perpetrators were has changed three times in the last decade and is fiercely contested by both Atwar’s family and the families of her colleagues. According to the government’s official story Bahjat, Al Dulaimi and Al Fellahi were then abducted by three Sunni brothers—Yasser, Abdallah and Mohsen al-Takhi— and driven to a side street, where Mohsen and Abdallah shot Mahmoud and Khairallah, and Yasser raped and shot Bahjat. The bodies were found later that day. The victims’ families, who retrieved the bodies from Samarra and interviewed the sole survivor and local police, say the government’s account is contradicted by eyewitnesses and medical reports, they state categorically that Atwar was not raped, and say the tragedy is being politicized to further divide the nation Atwar loved so much.
On 7 May 2006, the UK Sunday Times published an article by Hala Jaber, in which she describes watching a video of Bahjat being stripped of her clothing and beheaded. The video was later proven to show the murder of a Nepalese man by The Army of Ansar al-Sunna in August 2004. On 28 May 2006 The Sunday Times retracted the story, saying it had been the victim of a hoax.
Atwar Bahjat Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Journalist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Atwar Bahjat is one of the richest Journalist from Iraq. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Atwar Bahjat 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Following the US invasion of Iraq, she began work at al-Jazeera. Initially assigned to culture stories, she persisted in her reporting and was eventually assigned to political coverage of the Governing Council. She was the first to report from the scene about the 2003 looting of the National Museum of Iraq. On another occasion, she was detained overnight by the US military. She later persuaded her editors to send her to cover the 2004 fighting in Najaf, broadcasting live shots from rooftops even after the killing of her colleague Rasheed Wali on a rooftop by US military gunfire.
In 2006, the Committee to Protect Journalists posthumously awarded an International Press Freedom Award to Bahjat. Bahjat was also recognized posthumously by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism of Harvard University, which awarded her its Louis Lyons Award.
Megan K. Stack’s Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War, a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction, has a section devoted to Bahjat.
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Atwar Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Iraq. Atwar Bahjat celebrates birthday on June 7 of every year.