| Insurgents attacked political targets in the Iraqi cities of Baqubah and Erbil on Saturday, including the office of interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party, officials said. Nobody was injured in the attack on Allawi's Iraqi National Accord office in Baqubah, but two guards were killed outside the office of the influential Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) there, when gunmen opened fire on council building. Around 7:30 a.m., eight masked gunmen jumped out of two pickup trucks and opened fire on the guards. The SCIRI is the largest Shiite Muslim political group in Iraq. About 30 minutes later, attackers threw hand grenades into the offices of the Iraqi National Accord and then planted an improvised explosive device, which exploded shortly afterward, according to a high-ranking INA official in Baghdad. The attack damaged the building, the official said. |