Iraq VP survives bomb
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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 a ceremony.
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BAGHDAD  - Fourteen people, including a politician, were killed in Iraq as a militant group released a video claiming to show the suicide bomber who carried out the deadly attack on a dining hall at a US army base in Mosul.
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A suicide bomber killed nine people at the party headquarters of the Iraqi president Tuesday, and fierce gunbattles between supporters of an anti-American Shiite cleric and Iraqi forces left at least six people dead, officials said.
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September 2, 2004 -- BAGHDAD - Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi escaped an assassination squad unharmed yesterday after a hail of bullets killed two of his bodyguards.
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KABUL : Afghan Vice President Nematullah Shahrani narrowly escaped a bomb attack in northern Afghanistan while two US soldiers were killed in a firefight in the south in the latest burst of violence ahead of next month&#39;s election.
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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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A gas tanker exploded in Baghdad Friday, leaving one dead and 19 wounded, just hours after US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld left the Iraqi capital and vowed the insurgency would be defeated.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  - Ahmad Chalabi has survived again.  Just after escaping an attempt to kill him Wednesday, he said  an Iraqi court had dropped charges that could have put him in  jail.
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BAGHDAD - A Sunni Muslim tribal leader who was one of the highest-profile US allies in Iraq was killed in a bomb blast yesterday, an assassination that could undermine US attempts to recruit former foes to stabilize the country.
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BAGHDAD -- A roadside bomb exploded yesterday alongside the convoy of a prominent Shi'ite cleric whose high-level political ties have made him the target of past assassination attempts. The imam was not injured, but several bodyguards were wounded.
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Vice President Dick Cheney has linked prewar Iraq with al Qaeda in the vice-presidential debate, despite assessments from the CIA and the September 11 Commission that have found no conclusive tie.
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Afghan Vice President Namatullah Shahrani was unharmed when a bomb went off on his way to a road project in northeastern part of the country, local officials said Monday.
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A suicide car bomber killed 13 people  outside the offices of a major Iraqi Shi'ite political party on  Monday but SCIRI leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim survived and said  his thousands of armed militiamen would not fight back.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, August 24 -- A car bomb exploded near the gate of a US-funded Iraqi television network in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounding two others, authorities and witnesses said.
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Mahmoud Abbas, who was chosen as PLO Chief to succeed late Yasser Arafat, on Sunday survived an assassination attempt by radical Palestinian gunmen who killed two security service personnel.
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A parked car bomb exploded Monday near a building where the Iraqi vice president was attending a conference, killing at least 10 civilians and injuring 18. The Iraqi leader was not hurt.
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Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the US consul general in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jiddah, survived Monday&#39;s attack on the consulate without injury, but her driver was killed, the diplomat&#39;s brother said.