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Junior Member
Baghdad - Iraqi deputy prime minister Salam al-Zubayi was wounded in a double attack near his home on Friday and rushed to a US military hospital in Baghdad, US and Iraqi officials told AFP.
"He was admitted in a US combat hospital an hour ago," Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Garver said.
When asked whether Zubayi, one of the most prominent Sunni Arabs in the Shi'ite-led government, was wounded in a double explosion reported by Iraqi officials outside his home, Garver declined to elaborate.
An Iraqi security official said three people were killed and 10 others wounded in a double suicide and car bomb attack near Zubayi's home, office and mosque close to the highly fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad.
Another security official said the wounded included Zubayi's brother, a child and four guards of the deputy premier.
A number of Shi'ite and Sunni politicians have suffered assassination or kidnapping attempts amid the insurgent and sectarian bloodshed that has killed tens of thousands of their fellow citizens.
On February 28, two brothers of prominent member of parliament Saleem Abdullah al-Juburi were killed by gunmen in a rebel stronghold north of Baghdad.
The two men, who also acted as bodyguards for the Sunni MP, were killed in Muqdadiyah in the confessionally mixed province of Diyala.
Four days earlier, a suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint protecting the home of one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders, Abdel Aziz Hakim, killing at least three civilians and wounding seven.
"He was admitted in a US combat hospital an hour ago," Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Garver said.
When asked whether Zubayi, one of the most prominent Sunni Arabs in the Shi'ite-led government, was wounded in a double explosion reported by Iraqi officials outside his home, Garver declined to elaborate.
An Iraqi security official said three people were killed and 10 others wounded in a double suicide and car bomb attack near Zubayi's home, office and mosque close to the highly fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad.
Another security official said the wounded included Zubayi's brother, a child and four guards of the deputy premier.
A number of Shi'ite and Sunni politicians have suffered assassination or kidnapping attempts amid the insurgent and sectarian bloodshed that has killed tens of thousands of their fellow citizens.
On February 28, two brothers of prominent member of parliament Saleem Abdullah al-Juburi were killed by gunmen in a rebel stronghold north of Baghdad.
The two men, who also acted as bodyguards for the Sunni MP, were killed in Muqdadiyah in the confessionally mixed province of Diyala.
Four days earlier, a suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint protecting the home of one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders, Abdel Aziz Hakim, killing at least three civilians and wounding seven.