Article: IRAQ - Mar 23 - Iraqi Deputy PM Wounded In Suicide Bombing.

A Sunni who crossed the sectarian divide to join the Shiite-led government as a deputy PM is gravely wounded in a suicide bombing in a mosque at his home, his chest pierced with shrapnel. Nine people were reported killed in the attack. A man wearing an explosives vest blew himself up as the official, Salam al-Zubaie, one of two deputies to PM Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, was leaving a mosque built inside the courtyard of Zubaie's compound in a residential area behind the FM, according to the police and Harith al- Obeidi, a lawmaker with Zubaie's Sunni Accordance Front, the largest parliamentary bloc. Obeidi said the mosque was in a tightly secured area and cars would be searched ...

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