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Iraq council warned truck bomb Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20030820/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_un_blast_chalabi_030820175600 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20030820/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_un_blast_chalabi_030820175600 Iraq's Governing Council received warning of truck bombing a week ago 2 hours, 36 minutes ago Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo! BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq (news - web sites)'s 25-member interim Governing Council received intelligence on August 14 that a truck bombing was imminent in the capital, council member Ahmad Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, said. "The intelligence specifically said that a large-scale act would take place ... against a soft target, such as Iraqi political parties or other parties, including the UN," said Chalabi, who is a favourite of the US Defense Department. He stressed that according to the information, neither the ruling Coalition Provisional Authority nor coalition troops would be targeted. Chalabi added that the intelligence had warned the attack would be a truck bombing, using either a kamikaze driver or a remote-control detonator, but declined to disclose the source of his information or how it was collected. Chalabi said the council shared the news with US intelligence agents. However, it was not clear if the information had been relayed to the United Nations (news - web sites). At UN headquarters in New York, Fred Eckhard, the spokesman for Secretary General Kofi Annan (news - web sites), said he was unaware that any such intelligence had been passed along. "To my knowledge, that information was not relayed to the United Nations, but I can't say that with 100 percent certainty," Eckhard said. Chalabi also said "meetings had taken place between former members of the regime and extremists" ahead of Tuesday's attack on the United Nations headquarters here that killed at least 16 people, including the world body's top official in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello.

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