More than 600 killed in Iraq stampede, an Al Jazeera news report from 2005, covers the crowd crush on the Al Aimmah bridge in Baghdad during a Shia religious commemoration. Its strength is that it is contemporary wire and broadcast reporting close to the event. Its limit is that it is journalism rather than a scholarly or official investigative account, so a claim about the disaster's precise causes should be checked against any subsequent formal inquiry.
Facts
Citation
AuthorAl Jazeera
PublisherAl Jazeera
Publication Year2005
URLhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2005/8/31/more-than-600-killed-in-iraq-stampede
Source Typenews
Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Reliability tier 3: contemporary wire and broadcast journalism close to the event, not a scholarly or official investigative account. NotesAn Al Jazeera news report on the 2005 stampede at the Al-Aimmah bridge in Iraq; wire and broadcast journalism, not scholarly analysis.
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names Baghdad directly: "crowd crush on the Al Aimmah bridge in Baghdad during a Shia religious commemoration."
This source names Iraq directly: "More than 600 killed in Iraq stampede, an Al Jazeera news report from 2005, covers the crowd crush on the Al Aimmah bridge in Baghdad during a Shia religious commemoration."
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Sacred Sites, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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