Veteran war reporter killed

Elizabeth Neuffer, 46, an award-winning reporter for The Boston Globe, was killed in an automobile accident in Iraq while covering the aftermath of the war, the newspaper said yesterday. Neuffer was a highly regarded war reporter who had covered...

Elizabeth Neuffer, 46, an award-winning reporter for The Boston Globe, was killed in an automobile accident in Iraq while covering the aftermath of the war, the newspaper said yesterday.

Neuffer was a highly regarded war reporter who had covered conflicts in Bosnia and Rwanda.

She was killed while returning to Baghdad from an overnight trip to Tikrit, where she was reporting a story on efforts to to rid Iraq of the influence of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. The story had been set to run in tomorrow's edition of the newspaper.

The accident, which occurred when Neuffer's car apparently struck a guardrail near the town of Samarra, also killed her translator, Waleed Khalifa Hassan Al-Dulami. The driver, Saad Al-Azami, survived.

Globe Editor Martin Baron said the news room was "devastated by the news of Neuffer's death.

"She made a specialty of covering war crimes, human rights and the struggles of fractured nations," Baron said in a statement. "Her energy seemed limitless and her reports were eloquent with insight."

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