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To: xcr600 who wrote (16500)	4/21/2005 11:53:15 AM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

An insurgency that's losing momentum? With the prime minister just escaping assassination and more than 400 Iraqi police and soldiers killed in the past two months, maybe not. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Rory Carroll April 21, 2005 \| BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, Wednesday night escaped a suicide bomb assassination attempt, hours after officials said dozens had been killed in two separate massacres, raising fears of an escalation in the insurgency. Allawi's convoy was attacked as he headed to his home in the Iraqi capital after talks on the formation of the new government, details of which are likely to be unveiled Thursday, a government spokesman said. One policeman was killed and two were injured in the attack, but the prime minister escaped unscathed. Bursts of gunfire were heard after the explosion rocked a police checkpoint in the western neighborhood where Allawi's home and party headquarters are located. At least eight other Iraqis were killed in a spate of other suicide bombs that rocked the capital Wednesday.