(BNA) Iraqi independent politician, Tariq Al Mamouri, has escaped intact from an assassination attempt in central Baghdad on Tuesday. An Iraqi Interior Ministry source who preferred not to disclose his name said that Mamouri's car was targeted while he was on his way home in Karrada neighborhood by a road side bomb in which one of his companions was seriously injured. Mamouri was heading New Iraq Movement and was Deputy Head of Iraqi Umma party, led by Parliament MP, Mithal Al Alousi.