(16 Feb 2002) VOICED BY LOUISE BATES
00 00 Tank with soldier carrying coffin and soldier with picture of Abdul Rahman
00 12 Cutaway people watching
00 16 Flowers being carried by soldier marching in procession
00 22 Karzai and other ministers in procession
00 31 Mourners holding flowers and photos of Rahman at graveside
00 36 Coffin being lowered into grave by pallbearers
00 42 Close up pallbearers lowering coffin into grave
00 50 Karzai and Dr Abdullah at graveside
00 54 Soldiers
00 57 Wide shot soldiers
01 00 Wide shot crowd at cemetery
STORYLINE
The murdered Afghanistan tourism and aviation minister was buried on Saturday as mystery surrounds his death.
Hamid Karzai, the interim leader has now blamed a faction within his own government for the slaying dismissing earlier theories that frustrated pilgrims has beaten him to death at the airport.
00 02 The funeral of the assasinated minster was a tense, grim affair.
00 06 The killing of Abdul Rahman has thrown into stark relief the difficultes facing the new interim administration in maintaining control in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
00 16 Rahman's death was originally attributed to a mob of would-be pilgrims furious over delayed flights to Saudi Arabia.
00 23 But Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, blamed a plot among high-ranking officials in his own government.
00 30 He said the killing was the result of a plot based on differences dating back to the struggle against the Taliban.
00 38 Three men have been arrested but three other conspirators are still being sought.
00 43 It is believed they might have flown to Saudi with the planeloads of pilgrims
00 48 Rahman's violent death is the most serious crisis to face Karzai's government.
00 53 Although there's been some regional factional fighting since the fall of the Taliban, this is the first time such brutal rivlaries have emerged at the heart of the new adminstration.
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