Weapons sleuth Duelfer narrowly misses being killed in Iraq suicide car bombing
NEW YORK There are reports that weapons hunter Charles Duelfer (DEHL'-fur) narrowly missed being killed by a suicide car bomber in Iraq yesterday. C-B-S and N-B-C say two of Duelfer's bodyguards died in the attack in Baghdad.
Duelfer conducted the fruitless post-invasion search of Iraq for weapons of mass destruction.
C-B-S says Duelfer was traveling in the second of a four-vehicle convoy on the airport road when the suicide bomber tried to ram the weapons expert's car. The bomber was cut off by the security guards in another car.
The Iraqi Interior Ministry reported yesterday that two sport-utility vehicles were caught in an explosion as a convoy traveled on the airport road. Witnesses reported seeing two dead Westerners lying on the ground while three victims were airlifted away.
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