Plan to assassinate Anbar Province Council’s members foiled

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: Iraq’s Anti-terror Body has foiled a plan to assassinate members of west Iraq Anbar Province‘s Council in its center city of Ramadi on Tuesday, al-Iraqiya TV Satellite Channel reported. “The Anti-Terror Body has foiled an attempt to assassinate members of Anbar Province‘s Council, and arrested the persons behind the attempt,” the Channel said. Two explosions, one from a a booby-trapped car and an explosive belt, occurred close to the main entrance of the government compound in Ramadi, the center of Anbar province on Dec. 27, 2010, killing 8 persons, including a police colonel and wounding 50 others. Another attack against the same compound on Dec. 12, 2010 by a booby-trapped car, had killed 6 persons and wounded 18 others, followed with another blast of a booby-trapped barrel in central Ramadi’s Baghdad Garage, close to the same compound, had failed to cause any casualties. Ramadi, the center of Anbar Province, is 110 km to the west of Baghdad. HL (A) / SKH/SR 150