A mortar attack on a building housing offices of the American Embassy in Baghdad Thursday injured one American, an embassy spokesman said.
The mortar round landed on the roof of one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces inside Baghdad's "Green Zone," a spokesman for the Embassy said, according to The AP.
U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte was not in Baghdad at the time, the spokesman added. The U.S. Army said earlier that two mortar rounds exploded in the Green Zone, injuring two people.
Also in Baghdad, fighting between U.S. forces and Shiite fighters in Sadr City killed at least 10 people on Thursday, a Shiite spokesman disclosed.
Sheikh Hassan al-Athari, who heads Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's office in the Baghdad district, said five civilians and five fighters were killed during "sporadic skirmishes" with American troops. He also said at least 20 people were wounded during the firefights.
Na'eem al-Kaabi, a spokesman for al-Sadr's Mahdi Army, said earlier that 50 fighters and civilians had been killed on Thursday, but he later said that toll was for the day before and could not be confirmed. (albawaba.com)
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