A number of al-Mutlak`s bodyguards were wounded in the attack, the statement said. Protests have intensified since the arrests last week of bodyguards of Sunni Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi.
Opponents accuse Shiite Prime Minister Nouri Maliki of seeking to marginalize Iraq`s Sunni political leaders.
Maliki insisted that he did not order last Thursday`s arrests and suggested that they were the result of an investigation undertaken by the judiciary.
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