| Aswat al-Iraq: The Kirkuk Police Academy chief survived an attempt on his life with a sticky improvised explosive device (IED) that targeted his vehicle near the Kirkuk provincial building on Thursday, a senior security official said. "Brig. Kawa Ghareeb, the director of the Kirkuk Police Academy, survived on Thursday (1-1-2009) an assassination attempt with a sticky IED attached to his vehicle in central Kirkuk," Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts' Police Department, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "Ghareeb was not inside or near his vehicle at the time of the blast that left no casualties," Qader added, not giving more details. |