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LOU DOBBS: And Michael
Ware reports from Baghdad tonight on a new
illustration of the insurgents' bold tactics in Iraq,
an effort to assassinate an Iraqi deputy prime
minister.
We turn first to Andrea Koppel -- Andrea.
Insurgents today made a bold attempt to assassinate
an Iraqi deputy prime minister. A suicide bomber
detonated his explosives inside the official's
compound in Baghdad. Moments later, a second bomb
exploded outside. The Iraqi government said the
deputy prime minister was slightly wounded.
Michael Ware has our report from Baghdad -- Michael.
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MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Lou, in the midst of
an intensifying al Qaeda bombing campaign, we've now
seen one of Iraq's two deputy prime ministers survive
an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber who
penetrated his heavily-protected compound today in
Baghdad. The bomber, wearing a chest vest packed, as
we so often see, with thousands of ball bearings,
actually got inside not only the perimeter of the
deputy prime minister's compound, but inside the
building itself.
Nine people are known to have died, and at least 15
have been wounded in the attack on deputy prime
minister Salam al-Zubaie's compound.
Whilst the investigations into this incident are
continuing, and we know that the deputy prime
minister was wounded and is currently being treated
in an American military hospital, what is most likely
to emerge is that this will fit into a broader
pattern of conflict as al Qaeda is striking out at
Sunnis cooperating with American forces and the Iraqi
government. I'm sure there's much more to emerge from
this incident -- Lou.
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DOBBS: Michael. Michael Ware reporting from
Baghdad.