CONTROLLED BLAST - U.S. Army and Iraqi soldiers set off a controlled detonation to destroy unexploded ordnance at a location outside Bassami, Iraq, July 13, 2010. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Gary SilvermanIn Rare Deadly Attack, Rocket Hits Iraq’s Green Zone -- New York Times
BAGHDAD — A rocket attack on Thursday on the Green Zone, the heavily barricaded section of this city that contains the main government buildings and the United States Embassy, killed three foreign contractors who work for the embassy, and wounded 15, including two American citizens.
Casualties are rare in the rocket and mortar attacks directed at the United States Embassy’s compound — its largest anywhere, spreading out over more than 100 acres.
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