[An Nahar] Hamed al-Mutlak, a Sunni MP and brother to one of Iraq's deputy prime ministers, said he survived a roadside kaboom west of Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
on Saturday that maimed at least one of his guards.
"A roadside kaboom went
kaboom!on the main road in Abu Ghraib when we passed," Mutlak, an MP in the secular, Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding that one of his bodyguards was lightly maimed.
An interior ministry official confirmed the attack, saying the bomb went
kaboom!while Mutlak's convoy passed Al-Nasr Wa al-Salam village in the Abu Ghraib area, putting the toll at two guards maimed.
It was unclear if the attack was aimed at Mutlak personally, or if his convoy was just a target of opportunity for myrmidons.