Haider had been in the line of death various times before his actual death because due to his danger-seeking, selfless personality. In A Drop of Blood, a short tributary video to Haider by a New York Times colleague, the tribute describes a situation where Haider stepped in between an American journalist and an Iraqi holding a rifle towards the American journalist. The narrator in the film describes Haider as one of the most selfless people he has ever met.[6]