Bomb kills five outside Iraqi officials home

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4119494,00.htmlSaturday May 22, 2004 10:31 AM


By HAMZA HENDAWI

Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A car bomb exploded outside the home of a deputy interior minister Saturday, wounding him and killing at least five people, including four police. The blast hurled two cars onto the front lawn of the official's house, and police fired shots to disperse distraught bystanders who scuffled with them.

Abdul-Jabbar Youssef al-Sheikhli, the deputy minister in charge of security, was slightly injured in the forehead and right arm, said Hassan Hadi, a Health Ministry official. ``I expect he will leave the hospital in a short time,'' Hadi said.

Al-Sheikhli is a member of the Shiite Muslim Dawa party, which lost a prominent member this week in another fatal car bombing. On Monday, the president of the Iraqi Governing Council, Dawa member Izzadine Saleem, was killed along with at least six other people near the headquarters of the U.S.-run coalition in the capital.

Also Saturday, the military said a U.S. soldier was killed and three others were wounded in an attack on their vehicle south of Baghdad, and a Marine died in a non-hostile incident. It said the soldiers' vehicle was ``ambushed by a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device'' in Mahmoudiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad. The statement did not say when the attack occurred.
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1. This makes no sense

The Dawa Party was started by Sadr, the father. Here's what was written last year.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/6002678.htm

Islamic Dawa Party is an old Shi'a Islamic organization. Now based in Tehran, the group supports the establishment of an Islamic state in Iraq.

http://www.iraqinews.com/party_islamic_daawa_party.shtml

Who in the world would want to attack these people? Besides us, I mean.