IRAQ: U.S. SOLDIERS DETAIN THREE PEOPLE IN CONNECTION WITH CAR BOMB ATTACK IN NAJAF WHICH KILLED A TOP SHI'ITE MUSLIM CLERIC

Record ID: 358566

  • Title: IRAQ: U.S. SOLDIERS DETAIN THREE PEOPLE IN CONNECTION WITH CAR BOMB ATTACK IN NAJAF WHICH KILLED A TOP SHI'ITE MUSLIM CLERIC
  • Date: 30th August 2003
  • Summary: (EU) NAJAF, IRAQ (AUGUST 30, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WS: EXTERIOR OF AYATOLLAH MOHAMMED BAQER AL-HAKIM'S HOUSE, THE SHI'ITE MUSLIM CLERIC WHO WAS KILLED IN NAJAF YESTERDAY (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. SCU: BANNER 0.15 3. SV: IRAQIS SITTING IN STREET WITH GUNS 0.20 4. VARIOUS OF MOURNERS (2 SHOTS) 0.27 5. SLV: U.S. TROOPS PATROLLING STREET
  • Embargoed: 14th September 2003 13:00
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  • Location: NAJAF, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAEHJX80AWCL623SWM2WBBOQ6AJ
  • Story Text: U.S. soldiers have detained three people in
    connnection with the Najaf car bombing and
    are conducting joint patrol with Iraqi police in
    the city.



    U.S. forces and Iraqi police have detained three
    people in connection with the car bomb attack that killed a
    top Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric and scores of followers, a
    senior U.S. military officer said on Saturday (August 30).

    Immediately after Friday's bombing in the Iraqi holy
    city of Najaf, local people turned over to U.S. troops two
    people they believed looked like outsiders, Lieutenant
    Colonel Chris Woodbridge told Reuters.

    The two had indicated they were from the southern city
    of Basra and had been visiting the grave of a relative, he
    said.

    Woodbridge said Iraqi police had also detained a
    suspect who would be handed over to U.S. forces for
    questioning.

    U.S. soldiers, who have previously kept a low level
    presence on the streets of the holy city, were on Saturday
    providing increased security by conductng joint patrols and
    and checkpoints with the Iraqi police.

    Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, a Shi'ite political
    and religious leader who headed the Supreme Council of the
    Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), was among at least 87
    Iraqis killed in the attack on Friday close to the Imam Ali
    Mosque in Najaf.


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