Funeral for a slain Shiit cleric in Baghdad
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-07-02 16:13

An Iraqi policeman keeps watch through a window during the funeral of a slain Shi'ite cleric in Baghdad July 2, 2005. Nearly two thousand people marched through Baghdad's Allawi Al-Hilla district to mourn Kamal al-Din al-Ghoureify, a representative of Iraq's top Shi'ite authority Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Gunmen killed al-Ghoureify, shooting him and two of his aides as he went to Friday prayers at his mosque in central Baghdad, police said. [Reuters]

Mourners reach out to touch the coffin of a slain Shi'ite cleric at his funeral in Baghdad July 2, 2005. Nearly two thousand people marched through Baghdad's Allawi Al-Hilla district to mourn Kamal al-Din al-Ghoureify, a representative of Iraq's top Shi'ite authority Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Gunmen killed al-Ghoureify, shooting him and two of his aides as he went to Friday prayers at his mosque in central Baghdad, police said. [Reuters]