Embassy: U.S. soldier among dead in Tuesday's mortar attack on Green Zone

The 'Green Zone' is an area of of Baghdad blocks barricaded against intrusion. The area was originally home to the villas of government officials, several government ministries, and a number of palaces of Saddam Hussein. Today it contains the headquarters for all American operations, as well as Iraqi Ministerial Offices and the National Assembly. A number of top Iraqi government officials live there as well.

A barrage of mortars and rockets that struck the Green Zone on Tuesday afternoon killed three people — including an American soldier — and wounded 18 others, according to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

The two others killed were an Iraqi citizen and a “foreign citizen,” officials said. Five of the wounded were American civilians, two were American servicemembers and three were people working for an American contractor.

Around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the rounds began landing in the Green Zone, the heavily fortified center of government and military commands in Baghdad. The attacks were apparently launched from a Shiite district northeast of the area, and the barrage included between 20 and 30 mortar and Katyusha rocket rounds, American and Iraqi military officials said.

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