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New Zealand Journalist Killed in Afghanistan
Saturday, August 24, 2002
The Australian Associated Press

"Alistair was a New Zealand-born freelancer and we believe his work on trying to verify the story on the origins of asylum seeker Ali Baktiari was an important piece of journalism," Australian editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell said.

AAP
The journalist who broke The Australian newspaper's story on the real origins of asylum seeker Ali Baktiari has been killed in Afghanistan.

The New Zealand freelancer died in a car accident which also left a correspondent from the Spanish news agency EFE injured, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said today.

Alistair McLeod died after his vehicle attempted to avoid another but hit an obstacle and rolled over, ISAF spokesman James Kelly said.

The injured Spanish national was identified as Luis Alvarez.
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