Alive in Baghdad - Another Funeral in Iraq

	Duration: 05:36 minutes Upload Time: 07-05-31 17:12:12 User: AliveInBaghdad :::: Favorites
Description: Visit http://www.aliveinbaghdad.org each Monday for new videos about life in Iraq! Doctor Khalid Abd' Al-Hadi Al-Ghawas was killed in January. This video shows his funeral in Baghdad, just one of the thousands of Iraqis already killed in 2007 during the ongoing fighting. In the last month, there are believed to have been at least 234 murders in Baghdad during the first 11 days of May alone. Doctor Al-Ghawas had two sons and worked at Waqf Al-Sunni, the Sunni Endowment, an organization created to oversee Sunni Iraqi mosques and other important places. He worked at the Endowment for more than twenty years and was very famous in Iraq. Although he was a Sunni, he lived in the Al-Cairo neighborhood, east of Adhamiya, which is a primarily Shi'a district. When he was killed the news was broadcast by stations all over the Arab world, but we believe this to be the first time his funeral has been broadcast to the world. The circumstances of his death are still a bit mysterious, however it is believed he was kidnapped by a militia while leaving his house on his way to work last January. Witnesses have said that his car was hijacked with the intent to kidnap him, but the militia members' plan went awry when one of their tires was punctured. It is believed at this point they took him back out of the car and shot him dead in the street a few blocks from his house in the Cairo neighborhood. According to Iraqi Rabita[translated from Arabic]: Some eyewitnesses claim a Shi'a militia assassinated Dr. Khalid Al-Ghawas, an advisor of the Sunni Endowment and that three cars with armed men attacked him in front his house, which sits behind Al-Shuhada mosque with a rain of bullets causing him immediate death. Mr. Al-Ghawas was considered a famous man and he used to work as an advisor in the Sunni endowment, since the creation of the Endowment. He is an expert in the issues of the Endowment and its management, and his assassination is considered a new episode in the targeting of important Sunni men and educated people in the country. The assassination of academics, professionals, and educated people has been an ongoing problem in Baghdad, leading to the emigration of many prominent Iraqis to other countries. This is seen by many as one of the primary issues that must be solved, if stability is ever to be achieved in Iraq.
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rrojahh ::: Favorites Spread peace. 07-08-28 22:17:38 _____________________________________________________
actorlady ::: Favorites What's so wrong with being brown? We've buried an awful lot of dead from this war, as well. And you would wish that upon others? To each his own. 07-08-28 18:04:07 _____________________________________________________
Claudiaitaliansrkfan ::: Favorites oh my God! That`s terrible. I realized now how they are killing educated people.....my father works in an azienda for machine for hospitals and He knew so intelligent Iraqi doctors and it is arrived the new that they were killed in a bomb attack. Iraqi are great doctors! 07-08-28 15:01:50 _____________________________________________________
Noth11nG ::: Favorites There is no God, but Allah? What this means? 07-08-28 11:52:39 _____________________________________________________
Claudiaitaliansrkfan ::: Favorites don`t you know English? It`s a prayer called Shahada and it`s repeated 07-08-28 15:03:50 _____________________________________________________
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starbabe58 ::: Favorites rip 07-08-24 16:46:03 _____________________________________________________
Lewitke ::: Favorites i say theses words because every arabian ive known has tried to act superior, always starting fights, always giving attitudes, the only ones causing truouble in our suburban school....stop acting like fuckin animals and then we will! 07-06-22 20:09:27 _____________________________________________________
actorlady ::: Favorites Just because you didn't happen to get along with the arabs you have met does not give you the right to pass judgement on the entire race. 07-08-28 18:05:30 _____________________________________________________
Lewitke ::: Favorites haha ...no wonder this video was listed under comedy 07-06-22 20:07:35 _____________________________________________________
henrikrr ::: Favorites Is very sad... 07-06-12 19:58:04 _____________________________________________________
neuroticapictures ::: Favorites I hate to see responses going out that have so much hate towards one another. I'm really sorry to say it but we all have 10 fingers and 10 toes. Just because we were born and raised in different parts of the world, does not make anyone superior, or their belief systems. We are all human. Now on a lite hearted note, Check out the first band to play the White House oval office The Dirty Hearts. Really funny youtube com neuroticapictures Peace great song and video. yo 07-06-11 00:55:36 _____________________________________________________
radioflyer2 ::: Favorites It's not racist to despise evil. And fundamentalist Islam isn't a race. 07-06-10 22:57:44 _____________________________________________________
radioflyer2 ::: Favorites Beautiful sight, the enemies of peace and civilization burying their dead. Hurray for the good guys. 07-06-09 22:50:40 _____________________________________________________
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