Baghdad, March 14, SPA -- Kurdish leaders were converging onBaghdad for last-minute talks Monday with majority Shiitesas both sides pressed to secure a deal to form a coalitiongovernment before the newly elected parliament meets forthe first time later this week. In northern Iraq, gunmen killed Hussam Hilal Sarsam, aKurdish cameraman for the Kurdish satellite channelKurdSat, witnesses who saw his corpse transported by Iraqitroops outside the governor's office in Mosul said. Twenty kilometers (12 miles) south of Baghdad, a suicidecar bomb exploded in Youssifiyah, said police Lt. AdnanMohammed of the nearby Mahmudiyah hospital said. The blastmissed a convoy of sport utility vehicles, hitting acivilian vehicle instead and wounding four civilians. In the capital, five bodyguards of Sa'ad al-Amily, theHealth Ministry's director general, were wounded in aroadside bomb attack, a police captain said on condition ofanonymity. The guards were heading to al-Amily's home topick him up at the time, he said. Shiites and Kurds have been haggling over the makeup ofthe new government ever since the Jan. 30 ballot elected anew national assembly. Parliament meets Wednesday. The political deal calls for Jalal Talabani, a Kurdishleader, to be named president. Conservative Islamic Dawaparty leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari of the Shiite majorityUnited Iraqi Alliance coalition, would become primeminister.--SPA1312 Local Time 1012 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/246621