IRAQ: LARGE FUNERAL HELD FOR SLAIN LAWMAKER DHARI ALI AL-FAYADH AND SLAIN JOURNALIST AHMED WAEL AL-BAKRI

Record ID: 646875

  • Title: IRAQ: LARGE FUNERAL HELD FOR SLAIN LAWMAKER DHARI ALI AL-FAYADH AND SLAIN JOURNALIST AHMED WAEL AL-BAKRI
  • Date: 30th June 2005
  • Summary: (BN05) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 29, 2005)(REUTERS) 1. SLV MOURNERS CARRYING FLAGS AND CHANTING; COFFINS OF DHARI ALI AL-FAYADH AND HIS SON IN THE BACK OF FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLE; MOURNERS CARRYING FLAGS 0.36 2. TRACKING SHOTS POLICE CARS ESCORTING VEHICLE CARRYING COFFINS; IRAQI SOLDIERS ON STREET FIRING IN AIR AS CAR CARRYING COFFINS DROVE PAST; SLV IRAQI POLICE CARS ESCORTING THE CONVOY; SLV THE CONVOY SURROUNDED BY IRAQI SOLDIERS IN PICK-UP TRUCKS (7 SHOTS) 1.46 (BN06)BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 29, 2005) (REUTERS) 3. SLV FORENSIC INSTITUTION SIGN/ PEOPLE GATHERING; SLV MEN CARRYING COFFIN OF THE SLAIN JOURNALIST, AHMED WAEL AL-BAKRI 2.05 4. MV COFFIN BEING LOADED TO VEHICLE; MV PEOPLE GATHERING NEAR VEHICLE; MV COFFIN IN BACK OF PICK UP TRUCK 2.10 5. SCU BAKRI'S FATHER CRYING; MV PEOPLE CRYING NEAR THE COFFIN; SCU BAKRI'S BROTHER CRYING 2.35 6. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) AMJAD WAEL AL-BAKRI , BROTHER OF THE SLAIN JOURNALIST SAYING: "He was in his car on way to visit his wife's family and U.S. convoy was in front of his car. They opened fire at him. They shot at him with seventeen bullets, two of them killed him. The car was completely destroyed." 2.50 7. MV VEHICLE LEAVING 2.56 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 15th July 2005 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA2TQNBK9FLODG3529EIT7CN4QR
  • Story Text: A large funeral was held early on Wednesday (June 29, 2005) for slain
    lawmaker Dhari Ali al-Fayadh where Iraqi forces fired into the air.

    A suicide car bomber struck a convoy and killed lawmaker Dhari Ali
    al-Fayadh along with his son and three bodyguards on Tuesday (June 28), making
    him the second member of Iraq's parliament assassinated since a new government
    took power in April.

    He was the oldest member of parliament and had served as its speaker on
    the first day it gathered after elections in January.

    The funeral was held under tight security measures as a number of Iraqi
    army and police forces in vehicles escorted the motorcade as it drove down
    Baghdad streets heading for the shi'ites' holy city of Najaf for burial. A
    number of the roads were blocked with more security as Iraqi troops deployed
    along the roads.

    A large crowd of relatives and members of Fayadh's tribe also took
    part in the funeral. They marched through the streets, carrying flags and
    shouting mourning chants.

    The Iraqi wing of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group claimed
    responsibility on a Web site for the attack.

    Relatives of an Iraqi journalist who was killed by the U.S. forces
    participated in a funeral procession for him in Baghdad on Wednesday (June
    29.)
    On Tuesday, the U.S. soldiers gunned down the Iraqi journalist Ahmed
    Wael al-Bakri who worked for al-Sharqiya TV channel in his car while on way to
    his house in Amiriya neighbourhood, western Baghdad.

    "He was in his car on way to visit his wife's family and U.S.

    convoy was in front of his car. They opened fire at him. They shot at him with
    17 bullets, two of them killed him. The car was completely destroyed,"
    said Amjad Wael al-Bakri, brother of the slain journalist.

    A U.S. military spokesman said he was unaware of the incident.


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