Career
Fartusi worked as a camera man for al-Furat for two years prior to his death in 2008. Fellow al-Furat reporter Ahmed Mehdi said of him:
On February 10, 2008, while travelling to Samarra, a roadside bomb was detonated, killing Fartusi and the driver of the vehicle he was travelling in. According to Mehdi, Fartusi and his team were probably not targeting the station.
