Car bomb that targeted Chalabi is state-owned – spokesman

[sabra]

Source: Voice of Iraq

BAGHDAD, Sept. 8 (VOI) – The car bomb that targeted the motorcade of Ahmed Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress, in western Baghdad on Friday belongs to a state department, an official spokesman for the INC said on Monday.

"The initial investigations held that the explosive vehicle that targeted the INC leader's convoy belonged to a state department and contained two cannon shells of 130 mm. caliber," Muhammad Hassan al-Musawi said in a press release by the INC as received by Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).

Chalabi's motorcade had come under a bombing attack in the western Baghdad area of al-Mansour, leaving two civilians killed and 17 others, including nine of his bodyguards, wounded.

"Investigations are still going on to unravel this sinful operation," Musawi added.
Chalabi, an ex-Iraqi deputy prime minister and former Pentagon favorite, survived the attack unscathed.
A secular Shiite who was once viewed by Washington as a possible successor to Saddam Hussein, Chalabi was on his way to his headquarters in the area when the bomb exploded, his office said.

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[Me.]

1. A State Department?

What state department?

[madrchsod]

2. wanna bet the usa........

no big surprise if it was a us vehicle

[Me.]

5. That's What I'm Wondering

And have nptrf that throughout the article they never say. There can only be two in question, ours and theirs. I mean how many state depts. does a country have?

[Swagman]

3. I would think quite a few states would be after him: Jordon, USA. Iraq...

[lovuian]

4. this guy has 9 lives

guess he is a loose end too