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Car Bomb Kills Five Outside Iraqi Minister's Home

A powerful car bomb wounds a senior Iraqi official outside his Baghdad home, kills at least five people -- including the sucide bomber -- and injures others. The attack comes just a few days after the assassination of the head of Iraq's Governing Council. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

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Peter Kenyon is NPR's international correspondent based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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