Samarra sahwa official survives attempt on his life

SALAH AL-DIN / IraqiNews.com: An official of the Samarra sahwa (awakening) tribal forces survived an assassination attempt with an improvised explosive device attached to his vehicle east of the city on Wednesday, a sahwa source said. “Raheem Muzieb al-Bazi, the official in charge of al-Jabiriya sahwa forces, east of Samarra, escaped the attempt as the IED went off after he went out of his car and entered his house,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The blast left a woman who happened to be near the site wounded. She was rushed to the Tikrit Teaching Hospital for treatment,” he added. The source said that Bazi’s house was severely damaged in the blast. The city of Samarra lies 120 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 1