(27 Apr 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Traffic on Beirut's streets
2. People reading newspapers on News stand
3. Newspaper headline reading (English) "Police find bodies of missing youths. Set up security measures in Beirut"
4. Traffic on Beirut's streets with Lebanese army armoured personnel carrier (APC)
5. Mid of soldiers on an APC
6. Wide of school, Lebanese army APC outside it
7. Sign of school
8. Mid of closed school's entrance
9. Mid of APC outside school
10. Exterior of Al-Maqased hospital
11. Top shot of crowd outside the hospital, man carrying Ziad Ghandour's poster
12. Mid of Lebanese army soldiers outside the hospital
13. Ambulances carrying the casket leaving the hospital UPSOUND: Siren
14. Arrival of ambulances (not in the shot) to Wata Al-Musaitbeh neighbourhood UPSOUND: Siren
15. People unloading caskets from the ambulance
16. Pan of the other casket being carried in procession
17. First casket being carried
18. Woman throwing flowers on the caskets
19. Women crying
20. Caskets being carried in procession
21. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Shaker, vox pop:
"We ask the government to find the killers, punish and execute them."
22. Caskets being carried in procession
STORYLINE
Rival political leaders reached out to each other for the first time in weeks as Lebanon recoiled in shock on Friday from the murder of a man and his 12-year old neighbour who were abducted in what appeared to be a throwback to the sectarian bloodshed of the nation's past.
Police said they were looking for at least three suspects in connection with the killing of Ziad Ghandour, 12, and Ziad Qabalan, 25, whose bloated, bullet-riddled bodies were found on the side of a road near the southern port of Sidon on Thursday - four days after they disappeared in Beirut.
The government closed schools and universities for the day, and put troops on alert and cancelled military leave, as the two families prepared a funeral in a Beirut mosque for later Friday.
"The crimes of the two Ziads shocks Lebanon," the As-Safir newspaper said in its front-page headline.
"Lebanon unites around the blood of the two martyrs," said the front page of Al-Balad newspaper.
Qabalan and Ghandour disappeared on Monday after leaving their homes in the West Beirut district of Wata al-Mseitbeh and going for a drive. They were both Sunni Muslims and members of Druse political leader Walid Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party.
Jumblatt called Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah after the bodies were found, the country's leading newspaper An-Nahar reported. There was no independent confirmation of this call, but Jumblatt did call Nasrallah's ally, parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri.
The anti-Syrian Jumblatt and the pro-Syrian Hezbollah have been at loggerheads for months over a campaign by Nasrallah to bring down the pro-Western government of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora.
Hezbollah denounced the killings as horrific, and Jumblatt gave a phone interview to the pro-government Future TV channel on Thursday night in which he urged to allow the judicial and investigative process to run its course, and to remove politics from the incident.
In Beirut, the bodies of Ghandour and Qabalan were moved from Al-Maqased hospital to their houses in Wata Al-Musaitbeh neighbourhood.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the houses of the victims to participate in the funeral procession. They carried the Progressive Socialist Party flags.
The caskets were then moved to Al-Khachekji mosque to be buried in the mosque's cemetery.
Media reports at the time suggested Shamas was killed by members of Jumblatt's party.
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