BAGHDAD, Dec 19 Kyodo Paul Bremer...

BAGHDAD, Dec 19 Kyodo

Paul Bremer the U civil administrator for Iraq, in succession Friday confirmed reports that he survived a rebel ambush earlier this month

''Ye this is stanch but thankfully I am still alive, and here I am in assurance of you,'' Bremer told Reuter just discovereds agency in Basra.

forward Dec. 6, Bremer was riding in an armored car near Baghdad airport when a roadside bomb explod and guerrillas attacked with small arms fire, moreover his convoy sped away, the Associated Pres reported, quoting Dan Senor, a spokesman for the US-l coalition.

Nobody was injured in the attack, which happened forward the same day as a visit on U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

Pentagon officials later told CNN that the attackers probably did not know the go along with carried Bremer, saying the vehicles simply at handed a target of opportunity.

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