TIMELINE: Journalists killed in Iraq

(Reuters) - An Iraqi television station accused U.S. troops on Thursday of shooting dead one of its cameramen as he walked to his home in eastern Baghdad.

But a spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad, Lieutenant-Colonel Steven Stover, denied any civilians were killed during Wednesday's military operation in Obaidi.

The body of a second journalist was found dumped in a field with nine other corpses in Diyala province, police and colleagues said.

Reporters Without Borders has called the Iraq war the deadliest conflict for journalists since World War Two, with 213 journalists and support workers killed since 2003.

Following is a chronology of those reported killed recently:

Sept 20 - Muhannad Ghanem Ahmed, of radio Dar Al Salam, is killed in the northern city of Mosul.

Sept 23 - Gunmen kill Jawad al-Daami, a journalist for Baghdadiya television, in al-Qadissiya district of southwestern Baghdad.

Oct 14 - Salih Saif Aldin, a Washington Post correspondent in Iraq, is killed in the Baghdad neighborhood of Saidiya.

Oct 27 - Shehab Mohammed al-Hiti, a Sunni Arab editor of the al-Youm newspaper, is killed after leaving his home in western Baghdad.

2008:

Jan 30 - Aala Abdul-Kareem, a cameraman with al-Furat channel, is killed by a roadside bomb attack north of Baghdad.

Feb 27 - Shihab al-Tamimi an independent journalist working for many local newspapers and head of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate, dies four days after being seriously wounded in an attack on his car.

April 25 - Jassem al-Battat is shot dead in Al-Qorna, north of Basra. Battat worked for Al-Nakhil, a radio and TV group owned by the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, a powerful pro-government Shi'ite political party.

May 4 - Gunmen shoot dead Sarwa Abdul-Wahab, an Iraqi female reporter, after hauling her out of a taxi in Iraq's northern city of Mosul.

May 21 - Wisam Ali Ouda, a cameraman for Afaq television channel, is shot dead in eastern Baghdad's Obaidi district. Colleagues blame U.S. troops for his death, but the U.S. military denies involvement.

-- Haidar Hashim al-Husseini, a reporter for al-Sharq newspaper, is kidnapped outside his home in Diyala province on May 20. His body, bound hand and foot and with a single bullet wound to the head, is found dumped in a field the next day.

Sources: Reuters, RSF: www.rsf.org/, CPJ: www.cpj.org

(Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)