#35 - The Several Assassinations of the Exiled Iraqi: Abd ar-Razzaq Said al-Naif (Marylebone, London, W1)
Murder Mile UK True Crime
Murder Mile UK True-Crime Podcast
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🗓️ 19 July 2018
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
The Several Assassinations of the Exiled Iraqi: Abd ar-Razzaq Said al-Naif; an exiled Iraqi national, living in the West End, found himself the target of several assassinations. And yet, as high up as the orders to have him killed came, his death sentence was possibly conducted by a very unlikely firing squad.
- Date: Thursday 18th February 1972
- Location: Flat 21, 35 Bryanston Square, Marylebone, London, W1
- Victims: 2 (Abd & Lamya al-Naif)
- Culprits: Unknown
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| 0:49.8 | From the 15th to the 28th of June 1972. A trial was held at the old Bailey before the judge |
| 0:56.4 | Mr Justice Bean. The crime, the attempted assassination of the former Iraqi |
| 1:02.3 | Prime Minister General Abd al-Nayif. attempted assassination of the former Iraqi prime minister, |
| 1:03.5 | General Abd al-Nayif, |
| 1:05.3 | and the wounding of his wife, Lamia. |
| 1:09.0 | The evidence stated that three men had entered a lift, |
| 1:12.4 | arrived at the sixth floor,, arrived at the sixth floor and exited at the same time that the shots were fired. |
| 1:18.0 | Two of the men were disguised and brandishing guns, the other was unarmed and casually dressed. |
| 1:25.2 | With the unidentified gunman having fled. |
| 1:28.4 | Remaining behind, a third man was arrested and tried with the attempted shooting of ex-prime minister, General |
| 1:35.0 | Al-Nayif. But if he was an assassin or co-conspirator, he was certainly an unlikely choice. |
| 1:44.8 | The accused was Yaya Kazim, a fellow Iraqi and |
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