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Baghdad ‘Governor’ Assassinated

HeadlineJan 04, 2005

Baghdad governor Ali al-Haidri has been shot dead in a roadside ambush in the Iraqi capital, the highest-profile assassination there since May. Attackers shot at his armoured-plated car from different directions as his convoy drove through northern Baghdad. It was the highest profile political assassinations in eight months. Al-Haidri had survived a previous assassination attempt on his life in September. He died today just moments before a suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded some 58 others in a separate attack on a checkpoint close to Baghdad’s fortified green zone. Analysts say the attack demonstrated the power of opponents of the US-backed regime to strike at the heart of Iraq’s governing class ahead of the planned January 30 election. Yesterday, two Britons were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad, while an explosives-laden car attempted to ram through a checkpoint on a road leading to party offices of the unelected interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi. The bomber hit a police pick-up truck, and two officers and a civilian were killed in the explosion.

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