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Iraqi Justice Minister Escapes Bomb Blast 20 minutes ago By DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb struck the Iraqi justice minister's convoy as it passed through western Baghdad on Saturday, killing four of his bodyguards. The minister was unhurt in the blast, one of several bloody attacks across Iraq and the latest attempt on the life of a top government official. The blast hit the tail end of Justice Minister Malik Dohan al-Hassan's convoy at an intersection 500 yards from his home. About the same time, a car bomb exploded outside an Iraqi National Guard...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Two suicide car bombs in Iraq killed six people and injured 36, but Iraq's 83-year-old justice minister, target of one of the blasts, escaped injury. Also Saturday, a US soldier was killed and another injured by a roadside blast, and a second street bomb injured three policemen and five people were wounded in an attack on a police station. In Iraq's serial hostage drama, there was fresh hope for an Egyptian whose abductors telephoned his Saudi employer to say he would be released on Sunday, but there was no word on the fate of a Filipino and...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber drove into a convoy carrying Iraq's justice minister on Saturday, killing five bodyguards but leaving him unscathed, in an attack claimed by a group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. A statement posted on an Islamist Web site said the attack was carried out by the military wing of Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group, blamed by Washington for a series of deadly suicide bombings in Iraq and for executing at least three hostages. Witnesses said the attacker drove toward the convoy close to the home of Justice Minister Malik al-Hassan and...