Iraqis bristle as U.S. opens huge embassy :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) Iranian Embassy employees and their driver were shot Thursday in a Baghdad incident that some reports said involved Iraqi troops. (article 1)
The Baghdad Operations Command, however, reported that an Iraqi army patrol was shot at and returned fire at the SUVs injuring the embassy workers and their driver, according to the official. (article 1)
Meanwhile, Iran s semi-official FARS news agency was reporting that three Iranians and one Iraqi employee of the embassy were injured when shot by " unidentified terrorists. (article 1)
(CNN) Iran is calling the shooting and wounding of its embassy personnel in Baghdad an " assassination attempt Iranian media reported Friday. (article 2)
Iran's Foreign Ministry also blames "distrustful" U.S. security measures for contributing to such incidents, according to a report Friday in the country's Islamic Republic News Agency. (article 2)
The Iranians said they were on their way to dinner, according to the police report, though Tasleem said the men were heading to a Shiite shrine in the northwestern neighborhood of Kadhimiya. (article 3)
Like the infamous Boston highway project, the embassy is a mammoth development that is overbudget, overdue, and casts a whiff of corruption. (article 5)
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Source articles
- Iranian embassy employees shot in Baghdad (CNN, 05/16/2008, 304 words)
- Iran says gunmen tried to assassinate embassy staff (CNN, 05/16/2008, 501 words)
- 4 Iranian Embassy workers hurt in Baghdad shooting (L.A. Times, 05/16/2008, 293 words)
- Iraq: Iranian Embassy convoy ambushed :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World (suntimes.com, 05/16/2008, 209 words)
- Iraqis bristle as U.S. opens huge embassy :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World (suntimes.com, 05/16/2008, 1090 words)
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