IRAQ: BAGHDAD GOVERNER ALI RADHI AL-HAYDARY SURVIVES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT BY GUERRILLAS /U.S. SOLDIER AND CIVILIAN KILLED IN SEPERATE ROADSIDE BOMBS NEAR BAGHDAD AND IN BAQUBA

Record ID: 647268

  • Title: IRAQ: BAGHDAD GOVERNER ALI RADHI AL-HAYDARY SURVIVES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT BY GUERRILLAS /U.S. SOLDIER AND CIVILIAN KILLED IN SEPERATE ROADSIDE BOMBS NEAR BAGHDAD AND IN BAQUBA
  • Date: 7th September 2004
  • Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 7, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. AMBULANCE AT SCENE WHERE GOVERNOR OF BAGHDAD'S CONVOY WAS AMBUSHED 0.06 2. VARIOUS OF DAMAGED CAR (2 SHOTS) 0.14 3. WRECKAGE OF CAR MIXED WITH BLOOD 0.19 4. MAN CHECKING CAR OF BAGHDAD'S GOVERNOR 0.25 5. APN TO CRATER ON GROUND 0.33 6. DAMAGED CAR IN STREET / PEOPLE WATCXHING FROM BEHIND POLICE TAPE (3 SHOTS) 0.48 (U2) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 7, 2004) (REUTERS) 7. LV: SMOKE RISING FROM BURNING TRUCK 0.52 8. FIRE AND SMOKE ENGULFING TRUCK 0.55 9. TRUCK RAGING WITH FIRE AND SMOKE BILLOWING 1.01 10. WS/CU: TRUCK ON FIRE AND SMOKE RISING FROM IT (2 SHOTS) 1.08 11. TRAILER TOWING SECOND BURNED-OUT TRUCK 1.14 (U3) BAQUBA, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 7, 2004) (REUTERS) 12. PEOPLE NEAR WRECKAGE OF TWO CARS BY ROADSIDE (2 SHOTS) 1.22 13. CU: WRECKAGE OF CAR 1.28 14. PEOPLE NEAR WRECKAGE OF LORRY VEHICLE 1.33 15. WRECKAGE OF LORRY VEHICLE 1.39 16. WOUNDED MAN SITTING ON HOSPITAL BED 1.43 17. ANOTHER WOUNDED MAN WITH CLOTHES SPATTERED WITH BLOOD 1.48 18. SCU: WOUNDED OLD MAN LYING ON STRETCHER AT HOSPITAL 1.58 19. WOUNDED MAN SITTING ON STRETCHER 2.03 20. MAN RUNNING IN STREET 2.07 21. MEMBER OF NATIONAL GUARDS CLIMBING ONTO BACK OF PICK-UP TRUCK 2.11 22. MEDICAL STAFF RUSHING WOUNDED MAN ON STRETCHER INTO HOSPITAL 2.27 23. WOUNDED MAN / DOCTORS TENDING TO WOUNDED 2.33 24. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) A GUARDSMAN, SAYING "They were trying to remove a bomb when it exploded at them." 2.45 25. DOCTORS TENDING TO WOUNDED 2.50 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD AND BAQUBA,IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVANXQOQCJXSYC2WHUBPW5E5OXA
  • Story Text: Guerrillas try to assassinate Baghdad's Governor.


    Guerrillas tried to assassinate Baghdad's governor
    on Tuesday (September 7, 2004), opening fire on his convoy and
    then detonating a bomb in a van parked by the roadside,
    police and government officials said.

    The governor, Ali Radhi al-Haydary, was unhurt in the
    attack but one bystander was killed, police added.

    Guerrillas have regularly tried to assassinate senior
    Iraqi officials.

    Last month, a roadside bomb targeted the education
    minister's convoy and a suicide car bomber targeted the
    environment minister.

    Both ministers survived the attacks unscathed.

    Two U.S. military trucks were attacked late on Monday
    (September 6) on a highway road west of Baghdad.

    On Tuesday morning, one of the trucks was still
    burning. It could be seen engulfed with fire and smoke
    billowing from it as another truck was towed from the site
    of the attack.

    The U.S. military said on Tuesday that a roadside bomb
    blast near Baghdad late on Monday killed one U.S. soldier
    and wounded another.

    It was not clear if the soldier was killed in the same
    attack.

    The attack will raise the official Pentagon U.S. death
    toll to at least 989 since the start of the war in Iraq.

    Meanwhile, a civilian was killed and two others were
    wounded when a roadside bomb hit their cars in the restive
    city of Baquba, 75 kilometres north of Baghdad late on
    Monday (September 6).

    Two cars were damaged in the attack. It was not clear
    what was the target of the bomb.

    Also in Baquba two national guardsmen were seriously
    wounded when they tried to remove a bomb planted on the
    side of the road.

    "They were trying to remove a bomb when it exploded at
    them," one of the guardsman said.

    Baquba has been a frequent scene of attack on the U.S.

    forces and Iraqis seen as cooperating with them, including
    Iraqi police and the national guards.



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