Aswat al-Iraq: A politician from Iyad Allawi's al-Iraqiya bloc beat feet an assassination attempt with an improvised bomb (IED) southwest of djinn-infested Mosul city on Friday, a local police source in Ninewa said. "An IED went off near the motorcade of Ahmed Al-Abdullah, a legislator from al-Iraqiya, close to his house in the village of al-Safina, al-Shoura district, southwest of Mosul," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "Al-Abdullah beat feet the attempt unscathed," the source said, adding the kaboom, which took place five meters away from the Abdullah's vehicle, left no casualties but caused some damage.