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updated 6:30 a.m. ET July 26, 2004

Attackers shot and killed a senior Interior Ministry official and two of his bodyguards Monday in a drive-by shooting at the official's home, according to the Interior Ministry.

Col. Musab al-Awadi, the ministry's chief of tribal affairs, and his guards had just left the house when the gunmen drove up and shot them, according to Sabah Kadhim, an Interior Ministry spokesman.

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