Iraq's Chalabi Escapes Assassination Bid
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen opened fire Wednesday on a convoy carrying former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi in an apparent assassination attempt that wounded two of his bodyguards, Chalabi's spokesman said.    Chalabi's convoy was attacked in southern Baghdad at about 7:30 a.m...
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Shi'ite vice president narrowly escaped assassination yesterday as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it was searched by US teams with bomb-sniffing dogs. At least 10 people were killed.
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Gunmen on Monday assassinated a member of an influential Sunni clerics&#39; group that has called for a boycott of national elections, just a day after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan.
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The contest for Iraq's next prime minister narrowed Monday after the French-educated finance minister removed himself from consideration within the ranks of the Shiite alliance that won the most votes in the national elections, a spokesman said.
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BAGHDAD  -- A senior aide to radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr was assassinated on the road between the holy city of Najaf and Baghdad, an official from the movement said Wednesday.
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U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was trailing a Shiite ticket with ties to Iran in Iraq's historic election, according to partial returns released Friday. One U.S. soldier was killed and seven wounded in the north, and gunmen seized an Italian journalist in Baghdad.
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The most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run in Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has not been captured, the interior ministry said today, adding that medical checks on a man in custody showed he was not Ibrahim.
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Saddam Hussein's nephew, accused of financing the Sunni insurgency against U.S. forces, escaped from prison in northern Iraq on Saturday with the help of a guard, Iraqi officials said.
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Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi politician and former US favourite, has said that criminal charges against him in Iraq have been dropped.
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THE Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, escaped an assassination attempt yesterday when a rocket was fired at his helicopter as it was landing in the south-eastern town of Gardez.
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A convoy carrying Ahmad Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, was today attacked in an apparent assassination attempt that left two of his bodyguards wounded.
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A woman pulled a pistol on Iraq's defense minister in his office but then broke down in tears in a failed assassination plot hatched by an Iraqi group in Syria, the minister said in comments published on Saturday. Hazim al-Shaalan told the pan-Arab al-Hayat newspaper the 40-year-old woman had drawn the gun, loaded with poisoned bullets, during a meeting with him and other officials more than one week ago.
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Abdul Aziz al-Hakim - head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - escaped unhurt as a suicide bomber detonated his car at the leaderâs gate on Monday.
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BAGHDAD : Two ministers in Iraq&#39;s US-backed interim government escaped bomb attacks on Tuesday, in which at least five people were killed and six wounded in Baghdad, a bodyguard and official aide said.
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In a careening, high-speed shootout, insurgents tried to assassinate the commander of the Iraqi National Guard here on Tuesday, a day after he identified a man in
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Gunmen on Monday assassinated a member of an influential Sunni clerics&#39; group that has called for a boycott of national elections, just a day after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan. 30 in spite of rising violence in Iraq.
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The president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, has escaped an assassination attempt, a presidential spokesman said.