Posted on 11/07/2004 8:17:09 AM PST by knighthawk
A large car bomb has exploded in an attack aimed at Finance Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi in Baghdad that killed at least two people, a government official told Reuters.
Mr Mahdi says he was not at home at the time.
"I am fine. I was far away from the place where this explosion happened," Mr Mahdi told Reuters by telephone.
The car blew up in the street where Mr Madhi lives in a plush section of the capital's Karrada district near the Tigris river, sending a thick plume of black smoke into the sky.
Mr Mahdi is a senior official of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a powerful Shiite party.
It was the third large explosion in the capital within a few hours as insurgent attacks rise around the country ahead of an expected offensive by US-led forces to capture the rebel-held towns of Fallujah and Ramadi, west of Baghdad.
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