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| Bombing near Iraq ex-PM's office | Bombing near Iraq ex-PM's office |
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| A suicide car bomber has attacked premises belonging to former Iraqi prime minister Ayad Allawi. | |
| Two guards were killed in the attack in an area of western Baghdad where a senior Sunni politician, Saleh al-Mutlaq, also has offices. | |
| Mr Allawi - a Shia who was prime minister between June 2004 and April 2005 - was not in at the time. | |
| Violence in the Iraqi capital has dropped significantly following a US troop surge earlier in the year. | Violence in the Iraqi capital has dropped significantly following a US troop surge earlier in the year. |
| However, there has been a series of bomb attacks in the past week. | |
| The area where the latest attack took place is popular with politicians and officials because it is close to the Green Zone, where the government has many offices. | |
| Mr Mutlaq - who was in Jordan at the time of the attack - told the AP news agency that he had converted a house into offices after his previous offices were attacked. | |
| He said the attack was another demonstration that it was time to re-build the Iraqi police and army. |