6 killed in Iraq car bombing
06/09/2008 13:00  - (SA)  

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Suicide bomber bails out Bomb strikes Shi'ite pilgrims Security crackdown in holy city

Baghdad - An official in ex-deputy prime minister Ahmad Chalabi's office says six people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack on the former Pentagon favourite's convoy in western Baghdad.

But the official, Ayad Kadhim Sabti, says Chalabi escaped Friday night's attack without injuries.

Police had previously said Chalabi was not in the convoy.

Sabti said on Saturday that the six people killed were Chalabi's bodyguards. Police say 17 others were injured in the attack in Baghdad's Mansour neighbourhood.

Chalabi is a secular Shi'ite who was once viewed by Washington as a possible successor to Saddam Hussein.

- AP

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