- Title: IRAQ: TOP SHI'ITE LEADERS MEETING IN AL-SADR DISCUSS INCREASING LEVELS OF CRIME
- Date: 25th August 2003
- Summary: (W4) AL-SADR CITY, IRAQ (AUGUST 25, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF MEETING; SHI'ITE LEADERS LISTENING TO SPEAKER 0.07 2. SV: MAN TAKING NOTES 0.12 3. SV/MV: MAN DISTRIBUTING BOOKLET (2 SHOTS) 0.25 4. SV: TWO MEN GREETING EACH OTHER 0.35 5. CU: MAN'S FACE 0.40 6. SV'S: HEADS OF TRIBES LISTENING (2 SHOTS) 0.52 7. CU: HANDS HOLDING BEADS 0.56 8. WIDE OF HEADS OF TRIBES LISTENING 1.06 9. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ABDUL-HADI AL-DARAJI A SHI'ITE CLERIC SAYING "We have written a document between us (the clerics) and them (tribal chiefs) in which we have decided that any one committed burglary, looting or killing should be killed." 1.38 10. VARIOUS OF MEETING 1.45 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: AL-SADR CITY NEAR BAGHDAD, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA3J5XR4EIO5JVFJSPBL7D32BM0
- Story Text: Top Shi'ite leaders have summoned heads of tribes
and informed them that any one of their tribes committing
an act of killing or looting would be killed immediately.
Top Shi'ite leaders met in the city of al-Sadr in
order to discuss amongst other subjects the increasing
crime.
The heads of tribes condemned cases of burglary,
killing and looting that some Iraqi citizens might be
expose to. "We have written a document between us
(the clerics) and them (tribal chiefs) in which we have
decided that any one committed burglary, looting or
killing should be killed," Sheikh Abdul-Hadi al-Daraji
said.
Crimes are thriving in the country after the fall of
Baghdad on April 9.
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