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| Duelfer nearly killed in Iraq attack |
| 2004-11-10 |
| Weapons sleuth Charles Duelfer, who conducted the fruitless post-invasion search of Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, narrowly missed being killed by a suicide car bomber in Iraq, two television networks reported Tuesday. CBS and NBC said two of Duelfer's bodyguards died in Monday's attack. CBS said Duelfer was traveling in the second of a four-vehicle convoy on the airport road in Baghdad when the suicide bomber tried to ram the weapons expert's car. The bomber was cut off by the security guards in a trailing car. In Washington, the Pentagon said it had no information about the incident. On Monday, the Iraqi Interior Ministry reported that two sport-utility vehicles were caught in an explosion as a convoy traveled through the western Amiriyah district on the airport road. Witnesses reported seeing two dead Westerners lying on the ground while three victims were airlifted away. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |