An IED targets UN convoy; Melkert escapes without injury, five members of SWAT injured

Najaf’s police chief denied Gen. Abdul-Karim al-Mayahi targeting the convoy of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ad Melkert, Tuesday afternoon, on a road north of Najaf, while stressing the Information Office of Melkert said his convoy was the explosion of an explosive device after his release from the city of Najaf.

Mayahi said in an interview for “Alsumaria News” that the convoy that was escorting a convoy Melkert when he left the holy city of Najaf was the explosion of an improvised explosive device killed an element of special police forces (SWAT) and wounding five others.

For his part, the Information Office of the Special Envoy of the UN Ad Melkert said the convoy was the last of the explosion of an explosive device on the side of the road after leaving the city of Najaf, and his motorcade headed to the city of Baghdad nearly four o’clock in the afternoon.

A source at the Information Office of the UN envoy in an interview with “Alsumaria News” Melkert said he returned to Baghdad without any casualties, adding that the Iraqi authorities are conducting an investigation in the matter.
The bomb attack in the parade Melkert revenue from the province of Najaf, the first incident targeting Personal Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq since he took office in July of 2009, to succeed Staffan de Mistura, as the crash killed the first representative of the United Nations in Iraq, Sergio D’Emilio after the headquarters of the mission in Baghdad by a suicide bomber killed Dimlioa and a number of other UN staff in August 2003.

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Ad Melkert called for Tuesday, after meeting with top Shi’ite cleric Ali Sistani’s political blocs to sit at one table without preconditions for the formation of a new Iraqi government, stressing at the same time that what happened between him and al-Sistani of the discussions will remain The confidential nature.

The Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Iraq, Ad Melkert visited the city of Najaf and met with Sistani in the fifth month of last May after one day of the Declaration on the integration of coalition rule of law and national levels in a cluster the National Alliance, which decided to choose the leader of a coalition of state law, Nuri al-Maliki as its candidate for prime minister in the second week of October now, and come visit Melkert new to Najaf, in the light of the continued political crisis in the country and of refusing to list Iraq’s participation in any government headed by al-Maliki and the fears of the continuation of the current situation to the formation of a new Iraqi government to recall the Iraqi List, especially after the convergence coalition between state law and the Kurdistan Kurdistan on the paper and talk about the U.S. rejected the proposal for the sharing of power between Iraq and the rule of law.

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