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Bomber Targets Iraq's Labor Secretary

Oct. 23, 2008
BAGHDAD, Oct. 23--A suicide bomber tried to kill Iraq's labor secretary on Thursday, slamming an explosives-laden SUV into an official convoy and killing nine people, authorities said. The labor secretary was not harmed.
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