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Iraq oil official Iraq survives assassination
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-09-18 15:41
A senior official with Iraq's state-run North Oil Co. survived an
assassination attempt Saturday when his convoy came under attack in the
northeastern city of Mosul, police said.
Mohammed Zibari, the head of the company's oil products department in the
Nineveh province, was traveling in a three-vehicle convoy on his way to work in
Mosul when unidentified gunmen opened fire, killing five of his bodyguards and
wounding four others, said police Lt. Mohammed Ali.
Zibari, who is in charge of supplying the province with oil and gas, escaped
unharmed, Ali said. Two cars were badly damaged in the attack.
Insurgents waging a 17-month insurgency here have repeatedly targeted Iraq's
crucial oil infrastructure in a bid to destabilize Iraq and undermine the
U.S.-backed interim authorities.
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