Bombing Near Ayad Allawi’s Office

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Source: Associated Press

A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives at a checkpoint protecting offices of Iraq's former prime minister and a Sunni lawmaker on Tuesday, killing two guards in a neighborhood bordering the fortified Green Zone.

Both men were out of the country, as is common for Iraqi politicians, many of whom maintain homes abroad and are frequently targets for assassination.

Tuesday's bombing took place in western Baghdad, less than a quarter-mile from a series of buildings that included offices of Ayad Allawi, Iraq's first post-Saddam Hussein prime minister and a secular Shiite, and those of Saleh al-Mutlaq, the head of the Iraqi National Dialogue Front, a Sunni bloc.

Al-Mutlaq, speaking from neighboring Jordan, said when the suicide bomber reached the first checkpoint ''he claimed that he was an employee and had access.''



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