LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Al-Naif assassination

Genre

News report

TX Date

Jul 1978

Year of production

1978

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:01:56

Description

Report on the shooting of General Abdul Razzak al-Naif, former Prime Minister of Iraq, outside the Intercontinental Hotel, London. The General was taken to Westminster Hospital. The lone gunman was pursued and overpowered by a passer-by and a taxi driver. Unidentified male reporter notes that this is the most recent in a series of violent acts in London involving Arabs.

Contributors

None Identified

Keywords

Deaths; London; Homicide; Murderers; Prime ministers; Arabs; Iraq; Abdul Razzak al-Naif

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.