The Online Photographer: Namir Noor-Eldeen, 1984-2007

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Namir Noor-Eldeen, 1984-2007

Namir Noor-Eldeen (Reuters file photo) War encourages casual murder and probably always has, but the most egregious examples are still dismaying. Thanks to whistle-blowers inside the American military and the under-funded wiki site Wikileaks, which anonym

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By all accounts cheerful, helpful and energetic, the then-22-year-old Namir Noor-Eldeen had been interested in photography since boyhood. He was one of the first Iraqis recruited by Retuers for a program intended to train photojournalists who had local ties and local knowledge. Chris Helgren, the former Reuters Chief of Photography who instituted the program, said of Noor-Eldeen before his death that he “started from nothing and is now the pre-eminent photographer in Northern Iraq.”

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