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Iraq justice minister escapes attack

US soldier, 2 guards killed in separate blasts

Reuters, Baghdad
A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle as a convoy carrying Iraq's justice minister drove past in Baghdad yesterday, killing four people but not wounding the minister, police and US troops at thescenc said.
Near the northern Iraqi city of Beiji, a US soldier was killed and another wounded when their convoy was targeted in a roadside bomb blast yesterday, the US military said.
"The injured soldier has been evacuated to a military medical facility," itadded in a statement
Another car bomb blast in Mahmudiya, just soudi of Baghdad, killed two Iraqi National Guardsmen and wounded 25 people, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Iraq's security forces.
Witnesses said the Baghdad suicide bomber drove toward the convoy carrying Justice Minister Maliki-Hassan and then detonated his vehicle inaball offlame.
"There was a blast alongside the convoy. A booby-trapped car came
alongside and blew up," said Hussein Abed, a traffic policeman who raced to the scene after the blast.
Abdul Nasser Mohammed, an Iraqi bodyguard at the scene, said four people were killed in the explosion. He pointed at one destroyed car and said: "l\vo were killed in this car and all we found was body parts."
Five gutted cars were littered across the road, and Iraqis collected human remains from die street. One boy scooped up pieces of flesh using two cigarette packets. An Iraqi man collected remains on a tray, mostly unidentifiable apart from a piece of foot witli the big toe still intact.
"What I want to highlight is that tills is clearly a terrorist attack by people who do not want to see this country move forward," said Col. Michael Formica of the US 1st Cavalry Division.
Hospital officials said at least eight people were wounded.
"We were working as painters near the ministry house when FROM PAGE 12
suddenly there was an explosion," one of the wounded, Khalid Waleed, said as he lay in a hospital bed. "The glass shattered everywhere, hitting us."
Insurgents have repeatedly targeted top officials. Earlier this week a regional governor was killed when his convoy was ambushed. In May. a suicide car bomb attack killed Izzedin Salim, the president of the country’sGovemingCouncil.