A report on the Globe’s Web site said that Neuffer, 46, was returning to the Iraqi capital from an overnight trip to Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit. She had been reporting there on efforts to rid Iraq on the influence of the Baath Party. Her translator, Waleed Khalifa Hassan Al-Dulami, also died in the accident.
“All of us in the Globe’s newsroom are devastated by the news of Elizabeth’s death,” Globe editor Martin Baron said on the site. “She was brilliant and courageous. We have lost an exceptional journalist, a treasured colleague and a wonderful friend.”
Neuffer began working for the Globe in 1988. During her time there she covered major international events like the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the fall of the Soviet Union and war crimes in Bosnia and Rwanda. In her capacity as the newspaper’s roving foreign correspondent she reported extensively from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq. “We will forever remember her for her career of heroic and distinguished reporting,” said Globe publisher Richard Gilman.
