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Suicide Blast Kills Iraqi Shi'ite Legislator, 4 Others
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Bomber rammed his explosives-filled vehicle into a convoy carrying
Dhari al-Fayadh





A car burns in the street in Kirkuk, Iraq Tuesday, June 28, 2005 after
a suicide car bomber slammed into a convoy carrying Kirkuk traffic
police chief Brig. Gen. Salar AhmedBaghdad police say a suicide car
bomber has killed a prominent Shi'ite member of Iraq's parliament,
along with his son and three bodyguards.

The bomber rammed his explosives-filled vehicle into a convoy carrying
Dhari al-Fayadh a member of the ruling Shi'ite-dominated alliance and
the oldest member of Iraq's parliament.

Elsewhere, a car bomb attack near a U.S. military base near Balad
killed one U.S. soldier. And in the northern city of Kirkuk, a car
bomb attack near a police convoy killed two people.

Al-Qaida in Iraq later claimed responsibility in a statement that
could not be verified.

More than 1,000 U.S. troops and Iraqi soldiers have started a new
offensive against insurgents along the Euphrates river valley in
western Iraq. U.S. and Iraqi forces have carried out several recent
offensives in the region to try to weaken the ongoing insurgency.


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