A roadside bomb exploded near a convoy carrying Iraq's minister of state on Monday, missing him but wounding two of his bodyguards, the minister said. In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Minister of State Mohammed Abbas Auraibi, said the bomb exploded at about 9:30 a.m. as his convoy was driving on a highway in eastern Baghdad. «I was returning from an official visit to Amarrah when our convoy was attacked,» he said. «Thank God the two guards were only slightly injured.»
