Petroleum Minister Governor Of Diyala

Juan Cole 10/14/2003

Petroleum Minister, Governor of Diyala Narrowly escape Assassination

The Interim Petroleum Minister, Ibrahim Bahr al-`Ulum and an aid to Interim Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi narrowly escaped being assassinated in Baghdad on Sunday, according to al-Zaman. It gave no details

The Governor of Diyala province in the east escaped an assassination attempt when guerrillas detonated a roadside bomb as he was driven to his office. Three Iraqi policemen were wounded in the explosion, two of them gravely.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page