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Iraqi president's convoy attacked
22.1.2006
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 21
(UPI) -- A suicide bomber attacked Iraqi President
Jalal Talabani's convoy in the Kurdish enclave north
of Iraq Saturday, wounding three of his bodyguards.
The Kurdish satellite television channel said the
attempt took place near Suleiman Bak in the region
of Toz Khormatu, 125 miles (200 kilometres) north of
Baghdad.
It quoted an official source as saying three of the
president's bodyguards were seriously wounded, but
there was no information on Talabani's fate.
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Iraqi
President : Jalal Talabani
Photo: Reuters
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The source confirmed that "Talabani's convoy was
targeted by a booby-trapped car driven by a suicide
bomber while on its way to Kurdistan where the
president is scheduled to attend the extraordinary
session of the Kurdistan parliament, aimed at
ratifying an agreement to merge the two Kurdish
administrations in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah."
Kurdistan was ruled for more than a decade by two
administrations, one controlled by Talabani's
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the other by
Masoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
In other developments in Iraq, a U.S. military
helicopter crashed Saturday north of Baghdad, but
its two-man crew survived.
An Iraqi security official did not give the cause of
the crash or whether the chopper was shot down.
The U.S. army lost at least four helicopters in Iraq
within the past two weeks.
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