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Council member survives attack
A female member of Iraq's interim Governing Council, Salama Al Khufaji, escaped unharmed when her convoy came under attack south of Baghdad yesterday, an Iraqi official said.
The attack happened at Yusufiyah, 20km south of the capital, as Khufaji returned to Baghdad after a trip to the holy city of Najaf, said a spokesman for council member Ahmed Chalabi.
Khufaji, a dentist, replaced another woman on the council who was killed in an attack outside her home in September last year.
Akila Al Hashemi, a secular Shi'ite Muslim, died three days after being shot.
But Qatar's Al Jazeera TV reported that her son drowned after his car crashed in a river in the attack. "Members of Khufaji's protection unit told our correspondent in Baghdad that her son, Ahmad, drowned when the car in which he was traveling fell in a river," it said.
A bodyguard was also killed, it said.
The attack is the latest on members of the council whose head Ezzedine Salim was killed ten days ago in a suicide bombing outside the headquarters of the US-led coalition in Baghdad.
Khufaji had been in Najaf with Chalabi and fellow council member, Abdel Karim Al Mahamadawi, for a sit-in at the Imam Ali shrine to demand an end to fighting between US troops and militiamen loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr.
The US-led coalition earlier agreed to suspend offensive military operations in Najaf after Shi'ite leaders struck a deal with Al Sadr to end the fighting that has claimed more than 350 lives.
Three US Marines were killed in action on Wednesday in the volatile Al Anbar province west of Baghdad, the American military said yesterday. It gave no further information on the circumstances of their deaths.
A leading Sunni Muslim scholar Saadi Ahmed Zeidan has been killed and one of his colleagues Khaled Souleiman Al Fahdawi wounded by unknown attackers, the Committee of Ulemas group has said in a statement .
A man and two of his children were killed and nine people wounded yesterday when a mortar round exploded in Samarra, north of Baghdad, medics said.
Kassem Rahil Matar, 30, his seven-year-old daughter Aiman and his five-year-old son Lais were killed when a shell exploded in their home, medics said.
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