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"Baghdad governor assassinated"
From correspondents in Baghdad
January 04, 2005

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BAGHDAD governor Ali al-Haidri was assassinated by gunmen in the capital today, police and hospital sources said.

Haidri is the most senior Iraqi official to be assassinated in Baghdad since the head of the Governing Council was killed by a suicide bomb in May last year.

Also in Baghdad today, a suicide bomber rammed a fuel truck into a checkpoint near the fortified Green Zone, killing six Iraqis as insurgents kept up their bloody campaign to sabotage a January 30 national election.

The bombing, which also wounded 40 people, brought fresh scenes of bloodshed and destruction to the capital a day after 17 security men were killed in a string of ambushes and explosions across the country."