Bodyguard killed in ambush targeting top Sunni politician

Gunmen attacked the car of a top Sunni political leader in Baghdad today, killing one bodyguard and wounding five.

Adnan al-Dulaimi, a leader of the Sunni’s largest parliamentary bloc, had already sped away in another car after his vehicle was stopped by a flat tyre.

Yassir al-Obeidi, spokesman for al-Dulaimi’s Conference of the People of Iraq, said the Sunni political leader had been driven far away from his disabled vehicle before it was attacked.

The attack on al-Dulaimi’s motorcade occurred less that a day after it became known that he had joined with key Kurdish and secular politicians in a coalition seeking to deny Shiite Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari a second term.