US official leading Iraq WMD hunt narrowly escapes suicide bombing: report

WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (AFP) - The US official leading Washington's hunt for Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction narrowly escaped being killed by a suicide bomber this week, although the bomber killed two security guards in his security convoy, according to CBS News Tuesday.
CBS said Charles Duelfer, leading the US hunt for Iraq's WMD, was travelling in a convoy on Monday between Baghdad and the international airport when a suicide bomber in a car tried to ram his convoy.
"Duelfer was travelling in the second vehicle of a four vehicle convoy," it said, adding that the suicide bomber's car "was cut off by the security guards who were following in a chase car."
"Killed two in chase car ... destroys my car. Where do they get so may people who want to kill themselves?" Duelfer said in an e-mail to CBS.
AFP on Monday reported that two vehicles were destroyed in an explosion on the main road to the international.

11/10/2004 00:23 GMT - AFP