26 May 2011 - 19:30

Scores of people have taken part in the funeral procession for the assassinated Iraqi Shia official who headed a committee tasked with rooting out those with ties to Saddam Hussein.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The casket of Ali al-Lami, wrapped in the Iraqi flag, was carried on Friday morning by his weeping relatives and friends from his home in Baghdad's eastern district of Sadr City. He was to be buried in the holy Shia city of Najaf in the south.

He was fatally shot by gunmen while driving his car late Thursday — the latest victim of an assassination campaign across Iraq that has killed tens of political and governmental figures.

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