Reply #1: AlJazeera: Mortars create chaos at Iraqi Conference

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F1B16803-3C3D-4533-83E2-5BAD21E22E11.htm


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Mortar bombs have claimed at least one life in Baghdad's Green Zone, shaking the building where the Iraqi National Conference is under way.



Moments after the blasts, organisers of the conference on Sunday screamed at participants to get away from the windows of the convention centre.

The Health Ministry said 17 were also wounded when one mortar fell in the Allawi district near Haifa Street, one of the areas included in a government curfew imposed as a security measure because of the conference.


A US soldier at the scene confirmed that "a few rounds of mortars" were fired on Haifa Street, where clashes had also broken out between US soldiers and insurgents in the street. "The firing is sporadic but quite regular," he said.