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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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[Claudiaitaliansrkfan]

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!

[shadowno9]

Hay clown "a plague to mankind....."

Didn't Hitler said the same thing about Jews?

[Everettgirl]

fuck those sand monkey bitches. Burn them all lol. Fucking ass rinsers

[FLICKPatriotism]

His daughter was probably raped and killed by Marines.

[lean77back]

@voiceofvictory88 thats right u tell them trying to better their country and they wanna kill us and talk shit

[hurricane20082009]

الاعظمية

ساحة الامام

[utuberssuk]

Abu Hanifa*

[utuberssuk]

Looks like Aui Hanifa Mousqe in Adhmiya.

[judopathoftruth]

sekur el telephone ya7mar!

[voiceofvictory88]

No, you're clearly too stupid to realize anything. Most Iraqi deaths aren't from the coalition. 90% are from insurgents. Many of us as soldiers put our lives on the line to protect Iraqi's from this violence. Why don't you go over, then you can talk about it.

[voiceofvictory88]

you clearly don't know what you're talking about.

[voiceofvictory88]

not really, you realize, once we established their government, they told us what we can and cannot do in Iraq. The US isn't controlling it.