L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian official in Iraq, said Friday he was not hurt in a guerrilla attack on his convoy early this month. The military said the assault was carried out with a roadside bomb and small arms fire. The Pentagon said the number of American soldiers killed by hostile fire since President Bush declared an end to major combat on May 1 reached 200 this week. During the active phase of the war, 115 U.S. soldiers were killed in action. Also Friday, in the second major attack on a key Shiite Muslim organization this week, an Iraqi woman died in a bomb attack on a Baghdad branch of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Party officials blamed loyalists to Saddam Hussein. Full Story
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