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(11 Apr 2008) SHOTLIST Najaf 1. Wide of people outside wash room, where Shiites wash the bodies of the dead before they are buried 2. People gathered and placard which includes images of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his late father Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr 3. Mid of mourners 4. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Abdul-Hadi al-Muhammadawi, senior aide to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr: (++Please note that this is an excerpt from a letter written by Muqtada al-Sadr++ "May the hands of occupiers perish (quoting a Quranic expression) because, one way or the other, they have a hand in this heinous crime. His Eminence Muqtada al-Sadr also calls for calm and for people not to be dragged into any strife because our enemies today are seeking, one way or the other, to drag us into a strife that we do not want." 5. Coffin of Riyadh al-Nouri, a senior aide to the Shiite cleric being taken out of wash room by mourners 6. Mourners crying next to coffin 7. Coffin with Iraqi flag being taken away on truck Najaf ++MUTE++ 8. Wide of funeral procession 9. Mid of mourners carrying framed portraits 10. Various of mourners chanting in Arabic ''Long live, al-Sadr. Dawa (Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's party) and the (Supreme Islamic Iraqi) Council (Dawa's allied party) are infidels.'' 11. Mourners passing carrying framed image 12. Various of people mourning and protesting 13. Various of funeral procession Baghdad 14. Top shot of the tennis court at the Palestine hotel 15. Men standing in the top floor pointing to the damage 16. Damaged window 17. Various of hole in the fa�ade of the second floor in Palestine hotel 18. Mid of damaged hotel room 19. Tilt up exterior of the damaged room 20. Man entering room through rubble on the second floor of Palestine hotel 21. Man walking over rubble towards damaged window and hole in the fa�ade of the hotel 22. US helicopter flying over 23. Low angle shot of the Palestine Hotel, helicopter flying STORYLINE Thousands of followers of Muqtada al-Sadr took to the streets in Najaf on Friday to attend a funeral procession for a senior aide to the radical Shiite cleric who was assassinated near his home in the Shiite holy city earlier in the day. Riyadh al-Nouri, the director of al-Sadr's office in Najaf, was gunned down as he drove home after attending Friday prayers in the adjacent city of Kufa, a police officer and a local Sadrist official said. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media. The mourners chanted slogans against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Dawa party and its ally, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, led by Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim. The mourners pelted the compound of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council with stones, an AP Television crew who was at the scene reported. The protesters also intended to attack a police vehicle but they were prevented from doing so by clerics taking part in the funeral. Al-Sadr blamed the United States for Friday's killing, but called for calm, said one of his senior aides. ""May the hands of occupiers perish (quoting a Quranic expression) because, one way or the other, they have a hand in this heinous crime," said Habdul-Hadi al-Muhamidawi, reading a statement written by the Shiite cleric. ''His Eminence Muqtada al-Sadr also calls for calm and for people not to be dragged into any strife because our enemies today are seeking, one way or the other, to drag us into a strife that we do not want," the statement said. An overnight curfew also was announced in the southern Shiite city of Hillah. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...