IRAQ: IRAQI INSURGENTS ATTACK A SENIOR INTERIOR MINISTRY OFFICIAL KILLING BODYGUARD

Record ID: 355611

  • Title: IRAQ: IRAQI INSURGENTS ATTACK A SENIOR INTERIOR MINISTRY OFFICIAL KILLING BODYGUARD
  • Date: 11th April 2005
  • Summary: (W2) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 12, 2005) (REUTERS- ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV IRAQI POLICE AROUND THE CAR OF THE INTERIOR MINISTRY OFFICIAL WHICH WAS ATTACKED KILLING ONE AND WOUNDING 4 0.05 2. LV POLICE ON OTHER SIDE OF ROAD 0.11 3. LV POLICE AROUND BODY OF WOUNDED OR DEAD FROM ATTACK 0.24 4. LV/SLV POLICE ON THE ROAD (3 SHOTS) 0.51 5.
  • Embargoed: 26th April 2005 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD AND SAMARRA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAZL2DNWMPSY3E3I8HK6ZVM53B
  • Story Text: Iraqi insurgents attack a senior Interior Ministry
    official killing bodyguard and wounding 4. In Samarra, 20
    feared dead in car bomb.



    A senior Interior Ministry official escaped an
    assassination attempt on his convoy in Baghdad on Tuesday
    (April 12) but his bodyguard was killed almost instantly.

    Police said Major General Tareq al- Baldawi, the
    Interior Minister's Secretary, was driving through the
    al-Adil neighbourhood when gunmen opened fire on his
    convoy. His son was amongst the four who were wounded. Two
    others were bystanders.

    Shooting broke out after the attack when Iraqi forces
    arrived at the scene.

    Several ministers and officials in Iraq's caretaker
    government have been the target of attacks by insurgents
    bent on toppling the U.S.-backed government.

    In Samarra, north of Baghdad, a car bomb targeting a
    U.S. convoy killed 3 Iraqis and wounded at least 20,
    according to hospital sources.

    A doctor at Samarra's main hospital said his facility
    received five children and a woman amongst the dead and
    wounded from the attack in the Al-Dubat neighbourhood.

    The violence comes amid reports that clashes further
    west, in Qaim, near the Syrian border, claimed the lives of
    22 people on Tuesday (April 12) in two days of clashes and
    following two suicide attacks on a U.S. base there.

    An American contractor was also said to have been
    kidnapped in the Baghdad area on Monday night. The report
    was confirmed by the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.


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