Iraq's US administrator Mr Paul Bremer said today he had escaped an assassination attempt in Baghdad in early December.
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"Yes, this is true, but thankfully I am still alive, and here I am in front of you," Mr Bremer told reporters when asked about media reports that he had survived an assassination attempt on December 6th.
US television network NBC reported yesterday that Mr Bremer escaped unharmed when his convoy hit an explosive device and came under small arms fire as it drove from Baghdad airport.
The convoy was able to speed away and no one was injured. The incident, which occurred on the same day US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Baghdad, was not reported to the press by Mr Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority.