30.01.2005, 00:33
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[quote]BAGHDAD, Iraq — Seven suspected insurgents were in custody after two Americans were killed and four wounded in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad (search) Saturday evening.
One civilian Defense Department employee and one naval officer were killed in the rocket attack. Of the four injured Americans, two were military, one was a civilian and the fourth was as yet undetermined, a military official said. A State Department spokesman said none of their injuries were life-threatening.
The attack was the latest in a series on the eve of Iraq's first democratic election in more than 50 years. Earlier on Saturday, eight people were killed in a homicide bombing and a roadside explosive killed a U.S. soldier.
An explosion rocked the U.S. Embassy a little past 7 p.m. on Saturday when a rocket landed outside the southern edge of the palace that houses American civilians and military personnel. The embassy is approximately 350 yards from the nearest border of the heavily fortified Green Zone (search). Concrete barriers and a 10-foot-high fence surround the compound, meaning the attack was probably the result of indirect fire.
U.S. forces were able to trace the trajectory of the rocket, and eventually honed in on two cars driving away from the launch site, officials told FOX News.
[quote]BAGHDAD, Iraq — Seven suspected insurgents were in custody after two Americans were killed and four wounded in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad (search) Saturday evening.
One civilian Defense Department employee and one naval officer were killed in the rocket attack. Of the four injured Americans, two were military, one was a civilian and the fourth was as yet undetermined, a military official said. A State Department spokesman said none of their injuries were life-threatening.
The attack was the latest in a series on the eve of Iraq's first democratic election in more than 50 years. Earlier on Saturday, eight people were killed in a homicide bombing and a roadside explosive killed a U.S. soldier.
An explosion rocked the U.S. Embassy a little past 7 p.m. on Saturday when a rocket landed outside the southern edge of the palace that houses American civilians and military personnel. The embassy is approximately 350 yards from the nearest border of the heavily fortified Green Zone (search). Concrete barriers and a 10-foot-high fence surround the compound, meaning the attack was probably the result of indirect fire.
U.S. forces were able to trace the trajectory of the rocket, and eventually honed in on two cars driving away from the launch site, officials told FOX News.