Baghdad bomb delays selection of assembly
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=552561
By Jonathan Este
18 August 2004
As religious and political leaders met in Baghdad yesterday to discuss
the selection of a 100-member interim assembly, a few kilometres away
seven people were killed and 47 injured when a mortar shell exploded
in a busy street.
The blast on al-Rasheed set one building on fire and damaged seven
cars, Colonel Adnan Abdul-Rahman, of the Interior Ministry, saod.
Sabah Kadhim, a ministry spokesman, added that the mortar attack did
not appear to be aimed at the conference, but seemed to be a routine
attack intended "to create chaos in the country".
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