IRAQ: A LANDMINE HAS DAMAGED A CONVOY INJURING A SHI'ITE CLERIC AND FOUR OTHER PEOPLE

Record ID: 646886

  • Title: IRAQ: A LANDMINE HAS DAMAGED A CONVOY INJURING A SHI'ITE CLERIC AND FOUR OTHER PEOPLE
  • Date: 13th October 2003
  • Summary: (U3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (OCTOBER 12, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV PAN BRIDGE NEAR WHERE ATTACK TOOK PLACE; SCU HOLE WHERE LANDMINE WENT OFF; SLV PEOPLE STANDING AROUND AT SITE, TRAFFIC; MV CAR NEARBY DAMAGED (7 SHOTS) 0.36 2. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DRIVER OF ONE OF CARS AMMAR NASSER SAYING "A bomb went off and blew up an electricity pole nearby. 5 people were wounded and the person next to the driver was seriously injured." 0.49 3. LAS PEOPLE LOOKING FROM BRIDGE AT SITE; SLV BILLBOARD OF CLERIC MV PEOPLE READING NEWSPAPERS IN SADR CITY, SHIITE DISTRICT OF BAGHDAD;SCU HEADLINE READING THAT MOQTADER HAS DECLARED A NEW GOVERNMENT AND THAT THE GOVERNING COUNCIL WILL DISCUSS THE DECISION ON MONDAY (6 SHOTS) 1.24 4. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SADR CITY RESIDENT KAZEM JAWAD SAYING "We support this government, especially here in Sadr city because this man is clean and he has a good record." 1.42 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) AHBED EL HUSSEIN SAYED, RESIDENT OF SADR CITY, SAYING: "We don't want someone from outside to come here and to rule over us. We have Sayed Moqtader, who is one of us, and suffered as we suffered." 1.57 6. SLV CARS IN THE STREET 2.03 7. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) AHMED AZAWI, BAGHDAD RESIDENT, SAYING "We support the Governing Council and hope that everyone else does. We also hope that all the people of Iraq will be united in the building of Iraq's future." 2.18 8. SLV TRAFFIC 2.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th October 2003 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA6LQ4RAYOQS6CDB4HLX9G914Y4
  • Story Text: Landmine in Baghdad damages convoy, injuring Shiite
    cleric and four other people.

    A Shi'ite cleric was wounded in an apparent landmine
    attack in Baghdad on Sunday (October 12, 2003).

    One of the drivers of the convoy said another four
    people were also wounded.

    The cleric, Sheikh Sayed Hussein al Shami, was taken to
    a nearby hospital but witnesses say his injuries were
    minor. The driver of one of the other convoy cars said one
    of the injured was seriously wounded.

    The blast took place in at 9.30 in the morning in a
    quiet part of town.

    "A bomb went off and blew up an electriciy pole nearby.

    Five people were wounded and the person next to the driver
    was seriously injured," Ammar Nasser, the driver of one of
    the cars, said.

    In Baghdad's Sadr City, where 2 million of Iraq's
    Shi'ites live, people have given their support to prominent
    Shi'ite leader Moqtader al Sadr's decision to establish a
    parallel government.

    "We support this government, especially here in Sadr
    city because this man is clean and he has a good record,"
    said one resident, Kazem Jawad.

    "We don't want someone from outside to come here and to
    rule over us. We have Sayed Moqtader, who is one of us and
    suffered as we suffered," said another resident, Abed el
    Hussein Sayed.

    But the decision risks to divide not only the Shi'ite
    community but also the country. One man living in another
    part of the capital city said he was worried that any loss
    of support for the US-appointed Governing Council could
    destabilise the country. "We support the Governing Council
    and hope that everyone else does. We also hope that all the
    people of Iraq will be united in the building of Iraq's
    future" said Ahmed Azawi.

    Sadr announced last Friday that he had formed a
    parallel government and hundreds of Shi'ites in Najaf
    demonstrated in support of it on Saturday. Sadr, a radical
    who heads the thousands-strong Mehdi Army militia, was
    ignored by the US-led coalition in the formation of the
    Iraqi interim Governing Council in which he was not
    represented. The Governing Council installed by the
    coalition in July named an interim cabinet in early
    September.


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