Home of Iraqi PM Allawi Attacked

The home of the Iraqi Prime Minister has been attacked by mortar rounds. The attacks on a stretch of Zeitoun Street in central Baghdad hit near a house owned by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, an official said. Allawi was not present at the home at the time. Four mortar rounds also rocked a neighborhood near Allawi's political party headquarters, injuring six people, the Interior Ministry official said. Eralier in the day it was reported that three blasts hit Baghdad and wisps of smoke were seen billowing from the Green Zone compound that houses Iraqi government offices and the US and British embassies, witnesses said.

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