Monday, November 20, 2006
Minsiter of State in bombing
Security, Politics
A roadside bomb exploded near a convoy carrying Iraq's minister of state on Monday, missing him and slightly wounding two of his bodyguards, the minister said. Minister of State Mohammed Abbas Auraibi, a member of the United Iraqi Alliance, said in a telephone interview that the bomb exploded about 9:30 a.m. as his convoy was on a highway in eastern Baghdad.