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FNC Evening News for Thursday, Dec 16, 2004
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Another member of the Iraqi government was assassinated today. The deputy communications minister was gunned down in his car as he drove to work in Baghdad. Eight of his bodyguards were hurt and two roadside bombs going off near a U.S. convoy on Baghdad's airport road. This is one of the most dangerous roads in Iraq. No word on. No word from the military, rather, on the number of injuries, but a U.S. chopper did airlift some soldiers from the scene....

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