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Mortar rounds hit US embassy in Baghdad
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-08-20 02:40
One American was injured in a mortar attack Thursday on a building housing
offices of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, an embassy spokesman said.
The mortar round hit the roof of one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces
inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy
said on condition of anonymity.
Mahdi army fighters
loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr prepare to launch a mortar
attack as violence continues in the Sadr stronghold of Sadr city
neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday Aug. 18, 2004.
[AP] |
A gray plume of smoke could be seen
rising from the multistoried building, topped by a green dome, after the blast.
Dozens of U.S. diplomats work in the building alongside officials of the
U.S.-led military coalition.
U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte, who works out of the nearby chancellery, was
not in Baghdad at the time, the spokesman said.
The U.S. military said in statement earlier that two mortar rounds exploded
in the Green Zone, injuring two people. They gave no other details.
Thousands of American and Iraqi citizens work in the riverside enclave, which
is a frequent target of guerrilla attacks.
The building hit Thursday used to serve as the headquarters of the former
U.S. occupation authority.
"One member of the embassy staff was close enough to be shaken, his ears were
ringing, but he didn't require medical treatment," the official said. "The other
was injured and required some medical attention, but nothing serious."
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