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Iraq |
Cabinet Adviser Killed in Iraq Violence |
2005-10-31 |
Adviser to the Iraqi Cabinet Ghaleb Abdel Mehdi died of his wound after his car was ambushed by gunmen in Baghdad yesterday. His driver was killed in the attack. Mehdi’s brother — Adel Abdel Mehdi — is one of the country’s two vice presidents. In violence later in the day, Iraq’s Deputy Trade Minister Kais Dawud Hassan was wounded, an Interior Ministry official said. In the attack on Hassan’s convoy in the west of the city, gunmen killed two of his bodyguards and wounded six more. Hassan was rushed to hospital, but his condition was not immediately known. |
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