The editor of an Iraqi newspaper linked to an anti-American Shiite cleric narrowly escaped assassination in Baghdad on Thursday in an attack that killed his bodyguard, police and journalists said.
Abdul-Jabbar al-Hijami, the director of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's media office and the editor of his Sawt al-Iraq newspaper, was driving along Saadoun street in downtown Baghdad on the way to the printing press when gunmen opened fire, said police. His bodyguard was killed and the driver was injured, but al-Hijami escaped unscathed. (AP)
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