More Violence In Baghdad, Top Sunni Politician Attacked

Adnan al-Dulaymi (file photo) (epa)
March 2, 2006 -- Several attacks hit Baghdad today, targeting a top Sunni politician, who emerged unscathed, and resulting in the deaths of at least nine people.

Gunmen fired on the motorcade of Adnan al-Dulaymi, Iraqi Accordance Front, the largest Sunni party in the incoming parliament. One of his bodyguards was killed. Al-Dulaymi later called on his followers to exercise "self-restraint" and not carry out any reprisals.

A bomb explosion in a minibus killed at least five people and wounded several others in Baghdad's poor Shi'ite neighborhood of Al-Sadr City.

And a bomb at a marketplace in southern Baghdad killed three people and injured 10 others.

Several hundred people have been killed in sectarian violence in Iraq since the February 22 bombing of a major Shi'ite shrine in the city of Samarra.

(Reuters, dpa)

More Violence In Baghdad, Top Sunni Politician Attacked

Adnan al-Dulaymi (file photo) (epa)March 2, 2006 -- Several attacks hit Baghdad today, targeting a top Sunni politician, who emerged unscathed, and resulting in the deaths of at least nine people.

Adnan al-Dulaymi (file photo) (epa)
March 2, 2006 -- Several attacks hit Baghdad today, targeting a top Sunni politician, who emerged unscathed, and resulting in the deaths of at least nine people.