Iraqi VP narrowly escapes assassination
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Iraq's Shiite vice president narrowly escaped assassination Monday as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it was searched by U.S. teams with bomb-sniffing dogs. At least 10 people were killed.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen in Iraq shot and killed the deputy governor of Baghdad on Monday, said Iraqi officials. Hatem Karem was assassinated in a drive-by shooting, while two of his body guards were wounded in the attack.
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Five Iraqis including a guardsman have been killed in separate attacks in Baghdad and Baquba while the governor of Kirkuk escaped an assassination attempt.
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A Shiite legislator escaped an assassination attempt Sunday when a roadside bomb missed his convoy in downtown Baghdad &amp;#151; a day after a female Sunni legislator was kidnapped by gunmen from her car.
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Gunmen have killed a senior official in Iraq&#39;s communication ministry as he was driving to work in central Baghdad. Kassim Imhawi was hit by gunmen who pulled up beside him as he travelled into the city from a western suburb.
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Gunmen have assassinated the deputy governor of Baghdad and wounded four of his bodyguards, police say. They said the drive-by shooting that killed Hatem Karim on Monday occurred in the southern Dora district of the Iraqi capital.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the temporary successor to Yasser Arafat, escaped unharmed Sunday when militants firing assault rifles burst into a mourning tent for the deceased
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Afghan warlord General Dostum escapes an apparent assassination attempt, says report.
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A DEPUTY to US-backed President Hamid Karzai escaped a roadside bombing in northern Afghanistan today, just four days after Mr Karzai himself was targeted as he attempted to hit
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Iraq's Shi'ite vice president and a cabinet minister were wounded in an apparent assassination attempt on Monday when a bomb killed six people at a ministry in Baghdad where they were attending an official ceremony.
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CAIRO : Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi revealed he had escaped four attempts on his life since his interim government took over from the US-led occupation forces almost three months ago.
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The deputy governor of Baghdad has been assassinated in a drive-by shooting in a southern neighborhood. Unknown insurgents gunned down Hatem Kamel Abdul Fatah on Monday morning while
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A blast inside an Iraqi ministry during a ceremony attended by Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi killed six people on Monday but the Shi'ite vice president and other senior officials were unhurt, witnesses and police said.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s interim successor has escaped uninjured after militants opened fire in a mourning tent for the dead leader. Mahmoud Abbas was whisked to safety after militants firing rifles burst in on the tent just after he arrived.
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Last Christmas Day in Baghdad, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad received a furious phone call from Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi. An American -- drunk, armed, wandering through the Green Zone after a party -- had shot and killed one of his personal bodyguards the night before, Mahdi said. He...
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Baghdad, Nov. 1 (NNN): Gunmen on Monday assassinated the deputy governor of Baghdad Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah and injured four of his bodyguards, in a drive-by shooting in the southern Dora district of the capital, an Interior Ministry spokesman here said.
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SRINAGAR: Amid ragging controversy over the ruling allianceâs lackadaisical attitude towards the security of the stateâs main opposition party, NC president Omar Abdullah miraculously escaped an assassination bid on his life.