Iraq governor escapes assassination attempt
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - The governor of Iraq's Salahuddin province escaped an assassination attempt on Monday that, if successful, would have made him the third regional governor to be killed this month, police said.
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Gunmen killed the deputy governor of Baghdad today on his way to work, Iraqi officials said. Hatim Kamil was assassinated in a drive-by shooting this morning, said Baghdad Governor Ali al-Haidari.
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Somalia's trade minister and former defense minister escaped assassination attempts, which killed two other people, in the latest Iraq-style guerrilla attacks on government targets, witnesses said on Wednesday.
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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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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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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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Gunmen killed Baghdad's governor in  Iraq's highest-profile assassination in eight months and a  suicide bomber killed 11 people at a police checkpoint on  Tuesday in an escalating campaign to wreck the Jan. 30  election.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber assassinated a provincial governor yesterday, and the US military warned that a terror cell has set up in the Afghan capital to target foreign troops.
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An explosion targeted the Baghdad governor's convoy as he was traveling through the capital Tuesday, killing two people but leaving him uninjured, the Interior Ministry said.
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U.S. forces battled insurgents loyal to Moktada al-Sadr and Baghdad's governor narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
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A former Lebanese minister escaped an attempt on his life Friday in an explosion that hit his official car at Beirut&#39;s waterfront, security sources said.
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Prime minister unharmed in coordinated assassination attempt but president in critical condition
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The governor of Baghdad escapes unhurt when a roadside bomb explodes near his convoy.
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Afghan warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum escapes an apparent assassination attempt, say reports.
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Gunmen killed Baghdad's governor in  Iraq's highest-profile assassination for eight months and a  suicide bomber killed 11 people on Tuesday in an escalating  campaign to wreck the Jan. 30 election.
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President Hamid Karzai escaped a rocket attack on the U.S. helicopter carrying him to a provincial capital in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said, in the second apparent attempt to assassinate the U.S.-backed interim leader since he took office in 2001.
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Bangladesh&#39;s main opposition party says party leader and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed narrowly escaped an assassination attempt yesterday, during an attack on a political rally.