Finance Ministry’s Director-General escapes assassination attempt

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq’s Finance Ministry’s Director-General, Ali Abu-Naila, has escaped an assassination attempt in eastern Baghdad on Monday, a security source said. “A group of unknown gunmen opened fire on the motorcade of the Finance Ministry’s Director-General, Ali Abu-Naila and an advisor of the Central Bank, accompanying him, on southeastern Baghdad’s Mohammed al-Qassim highway on Monday, causing no casualties, but damaging Abu-Naila’s car,” the security source said. The explosion was not the first of its kind in Baghdad on Monday, as two explosive charges, planted on the main road passing through Jadiriya district, close to Baghdad University, had blown up, wounding four persons and causing material damage to a number of civilian cars and shops. SKH (TP)/SR   608