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WaPo carries an article that mentions an additional attack on an Iraqi minister in Mosul on Sunday.
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By Karl Vick
Washington Post Foreign Service
BAGHDAD -- Ambushes in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday killed two foreign civilians and two bodyguards assigned to an Iraqi minister who survived an attack on her convoy later in the day. [...]
The second attack targeted a two-car convoy carrying Nasreen Berwari, a Kurdish woman appointed by coalition authorities to head the Ministry of Public Works. The vehicles came under fire in the city while en route from a town meeting in Dohuk, a Kurdish city north of Mosul. A driver and one bodyguard were killed and two others in her entourage were wounded, coalition authorities said.
It was not known whether the 11 a.m. attack was an attempt to assassinate Berwari, or a case of her convoy presenting a target of opportunity for insurgents who launched attacks throughout the day across the city of 2 million. In other incidents, an armored Stryker military vehicle was struck twice by rocket-propelled grenades; military officials said the four assailants were killed. A grenade wounded a police officer in the center of the city, and a rocket-propelled grenade aimed at city hall struck a boy's school but did not explode, Reuters news agency reported.