(29 Jun 2005)
1. Various of crowd carrying coffins of Iraqi MP Sheikh Dhari Ali al-Fayadh, his son and two of his bodyguards who were killed in a suicide bombing on Tuesday
2. Various of funeral procession with mourners holding up their guns and chanting
3. Wide of women crying
4. Various of funeral procession
STORYLINE:
Thousands of Iraqis took part in a solemn funeral procession in Rashidiya on Wednesday, for an Iraqi politician who was killed in a car bombing with three others.
National Assembly legislator Dhari Ali al-Fayadh and his son were killed when a suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into theirs as they travelled to parliament from their farm in Rashidiya, 32 kilometres (20 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
Two of al-Fayadh's bodyguards were also killed and four more wounded in the attack.
Al-Fayadh, a Shiite in his late 80s, was the eldest member of the new parliament and had acted as temporary speaker.
He belonged to the country's largest Shiite political party, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, the senior partner in the governing coalition.
Al-Fayadh was a senior sheik from the al-Boamer tribe in the Mahmoudiya area, about 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of Baghdad.
The area is known as a hotbed of the Sunni-dominated insurgency.
Al-Boamer, however, includes both Sunni and Shiite clans.
Al-Qaida in Iraq, which has declared war on Shiites, claimed responsibility for al-Fayadh's assassination on an Islamic Web site.
The statement's authenticity could not be verified.
President Jalal Talabani said the country would not be deterred by political assassinations and its security forces were working to eradicate the insurgency.
Al-Fayadh was the second Shiite legislator to be killed since the new parliament started work in March.
The country's Shiites are already on edge following a series of car bombings last week that killed nearly 40 people in predominantly Shiite neighbourhoods in Baghdad.
Al-Fayadh's killing also marked the second political assassination in a week, coming after the June 22 killing of a prominent Sunni Arab who had been a candidate to join a committee drafting Iraq's constitution.
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