Details of the killing of Ahmed al-Alwani in Beirut, according to security media:
Ahmed al-Alwani arrived Thursday evening from Erbil to Beirut normally with a regular passport via Middle East Airlines.
He took a taxi to a hotel near the Raush area, but left after less than an hour and explained to the staff that his friends had arrived and he would accompany them.
Investigations with the hotel's owners revealed that he went out with Syrian-speaking people in a white Range Rover, and seemed to have a close relationship with them.
Al-Alwani made two calls to his family, the last of which was from an apartment in the Tarek al-Jadida area of Beirut, before his brother-in-law and cousin (Azhar al-Alwani) informed the Iraqi ambassador of his disappearance on Tuesday morning.
The Iraqi embassy contacted Lebanese security, and General Shukair confirmed to the Iraqi ambassador that they were closely monitoring al-Alwani's movements.
- Shukair informed the ambassador that an unidentified body was found in an apartment in the Al Jadida area. At first they believed that it was a Syrian because the tenant of the apartment was Syrian, so the ambassador asked to check it.
The Iraqi ambassador and a delegation from the embassy went with Alwani's relatives to the Zahla government hospital to verify the identity of the body, after it began to decompose and lost some of its features.