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To: KLP who wrote (93530)	1/4/2005 3:13:36 AM
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Baghdad governor 'assassinated' news.bbc.co.uk Last Updated: Tuesday, 4 January, 2005, 07:55 GMT The governor of Baghdad has been assassinated by gunmen in the Iraqi capital, police sources said. Governor Ali al-Haidri was a target of another assassination attempt in September last year. Details on the attack are still sketchy. In a separate incident, at least six people have been killed and 40 others injured in a bomb explosion at a police post in Baghdad, officials say. Violence has been escalating ahead of elections planned for 30 January. Initial reports suggest that a fuel tanker caused the blast near the Green Zone, the heavily fortified government and diplomatic compound. Violence Tuesday's blast comes a day after attacks across the country killed at least 20. There were at least two suicide car bomb attacks on Baghdad on Monday. Three Britons and an American were in one of the vehicles hit. Earlier , a suicide car bomb targeted the offices of interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, killing another four people.