Mortars fired at Italian embassy in Baghdad-ANSA

[PfcHammer]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L125667.htm

Mortars fired at Italian embassy in Baghdad-ANSA

12 May 2004 18:15:04 GMT
(Updates with ANSA report, adds background)

ROME, May 12 (Reuters) - Three mortar rounds were fired at the Italian embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday but the building was not damaged, Italy's ANSA news agency reported.

The agency gave no further details on the attack.

The report came after a journalist from Italy's state broadcaster RAI said that an explosion had hit the embassy building.

The journalist, Monica Maggioni, reporting live, said she had received news from the Qatar-based Al Jazeera Arab television that the embassy had been hit by a blast. Seconds later the link between Rome and the reporter failed.

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1. kick

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[riverwalker]

2. CNN said it was celebratory gunfire

near the embassy. Iraq won a soccar game against Saudi Arabia. No bomb blast, no explosion. Gunfire in celebration. Then all the media monkeys ran with the same story instead of checking it out. Should we be surprised?