IRAQ: CAR BOMB AIMED AT IRAQI NATIONAL GUARD GENERAL MUDHER AL-MULA KILLS ONE PERSON AND INJURES EIGHT OTHERS IN BAGHDAD

Record ID: 358855

  • Title: IRAQ: CAR BOMB AIMED AT IRAQI NATIONAL GUARD GENERAL MUDHER AL-MULA KILLS ONE PERSON AND INJURES EIGHT OTHERS IN BAGHDAD
  • Date: 28th December 2004
  • Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (DECEMBER 28, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE VIEW OF SITE WHERE CAR BOMB TARGETING HEAD OF IRAQ'S NATIONAL GUARD EXPLODED / U.S. HUMVEE AND IRAQI NATIONAL GUARDS AT SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.10 2. MV/WS: IRAQI NATIONAL GUARDS AND U.S. SOLDIER OUTSIDE HOUSE WHERE CAR EXPLODED (2 SHOTS) 0.21 3. IRAQI SECURITY FORCE EXAMINING WRECKAGE OF
  • Embargoed: 12th January 2005 12:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA35C3OB3VMMHGLNLYOK8GFJYIK
  • Story Text: Car bomb targets top Iraqi National Guard general in
    Baghdad.


    A car bomb targeting the chief of staff of the
    U.S.-backed Iraqi National Guard killed one person and
    injured eight others on Tuesday (December 28, 2004), a police
    official said.

    Staff General Mudher al-Mula, who was leaving his home
    on the edge of the Adhamiya district of Baghdad in a convoy
    when the bomb went off, apparently escaped unhurt.

    Nu'man hospital in Baghdad received eight wounded
    people.

    "The emergency ward of Al-Nu'man hospital received
    today eight wounded people, most of whom are not suffering
    from serious injury, except one who was seriously injured
    in his left and right legs. He was operated on and the
    others will be later" said Dr. Leith of Nu'man Hospital.

    Iraqi Defence Ministry officials were not immediately
    available for comment.

    Witnesses said the car bomb appeared to have been
    parked close to the general's house in a long line of
    vehicles waiting overnight for petrol, a common feature of
    Baghdad's fuel crisis.

    Mula was a general under Saddam Hussein, although as a
    member of the majority Shi'ite Muslim community, he was not
    typical. The Sunni minority dominated the country under
    Saddam and Sunni insurgents are now battling to overthrow
    the new, U.S.-backed government, which is holding an
    election next month.

    Insurgents have killed hundreds of Iraqi National
    Guards in recent months. Jordanian Musab Abu Musab
    al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for an ambush that killed
    49 soldiers northeast of Baghdad two months ago.
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