ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: The Commander of Iraq’s 7th Army Division has escaped an assassination attempt, in an explosive charge blast against his motorcade in west Iraq’s Anbar Province, killing his driver and wounding two of his bodyguards, a security source reported.
“An explosive charge blew off against the motorcade of the 7th Army Commander of the Iraqi Army, Maj-General Ismail al-Duleimy, on the main road between west Iraq’s Anbar Province, connecting its towns of Hit and Qaim, killing his driver and wounding two of his bodyguards,” the security source stressed.
Ramadi, the center of Anbar Province, is 110 km to the west of Baghdad.
SKH (PT)