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Two of Suleiman's bodyguards were killed in the attack, according to the report.
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Suleiman had been Egypt's Intel chief but was appointed the country's first vice president in the thirty year reign of President Hosni Mubarak following the start of mass protests against the regime last week.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs declined to address the reports of an assassination attempt.
On Friday, Suleiman told the ABC television network that Egypt will uphold the current peace agreement with Israel without violations.
"Yes we will have a peace agreement," Suleiman said after he was asked whether peace will remain. "We will keep it firmly and not violate it at all.
When questioned about the conversation held with US President Barack Obama regarding Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation, Suleiman said: "My telephone call with [US Secretary of State Hilary] Clinton...We discussed this issue but she didn't ask that President Mubarak step down now. But I told her it was a process, and at the end of it, President Mubarak will leave."
Suleiman explained that the outcome in Egypt would not be similar to that of Tunisia, which resulted in Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to leave the country with his family. He said Mubarak did not intend on leaving Egypt.
"No, Egypt will not be anything like Tunisia," he said. "This is different. You know that our president is a fighter. He lived on this soil and he will die on this soil."
Reacting to the clashes between pro-Mubarak supports and anti-government protesters, Suleiman said: "It's a bad thing to see and we've never had this before. Emotionally they went to the streets to express their feelings to our president. And we don't know why they went to Tahrir Square."
"I believe that they are from our society," Suleiman added. "They are not foreigners, but for sure, these people have been supported by foreigners."
Suleiman also told Amanpour that he would not run for re-election.
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Egypt VP Target of Assassination Attempt That Killed Two Bodyguards, Sources Tell Fox News
Published February 04, 2011
| FoxNews.com
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Before becoming Egypt's vice president in late January, Omar Suleiman was known for his strong-arm tactics as one of the region's most feared and revered intelligence chiefs.
A failed assassination attempt on Egypt's vice president in recent days left two of his bodyguards dead, sources tell Fox News.
Such an attempt on the life of Omar Suleiman would mark an alarming turn in the uprising against the government of President Hosni Mubarak, who only recently named Suleiman as vice president in an effort to quell the unrest and possibly line up a successor.
A senior Obama administration official confirmed that the attack happened soon after Suleiman was appointed, on Jan. 29. The official described it as an organized attack on Suleiman's motorcade.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs declined to address the assassination reports when asked earlier by Fox News.
"I'm not going to ... get into that question," Gibbs said.
The U.S. has condemned the violence that has erupted in the streets of Cairo in recent days in clashes between pro- and anti-government groups. Several have been killed and hundreds injured in the chaos, and journalists and human rights activists have also been targeted in attacks.
Mubarak, facing intense pressure to resign, announced earlier this week that he would end his nearly 30-year rule but only after a elections in September. That did little to appease protesters, who have called for his immediate ouster.
The vice president post was empty when Mubarak tapped Suleiman for the job after the protests began. Suleiman would stand to take over as interim leader of Egypt in some of the proposals reportedly being considered for an expedited political transition.
Fox News' senior administration source expressed surprise that news of the assassination attempt was just now breaking, "because he is the transition plan ... or at least one of them for the Egyptians."
But Suleiman also comes with an image problem of his own after serving as head of Mubarak's intelligence forces.
As spy chief, he was known for his strong-arm tactics and was seen as one of the region's most feared and revered intelligence chiefs.
It isn't immediately clear who was behind the assassination attempt.
