Wolfowitz survived an attack and vowed to stay in Iraq
An American military spokesman said that two explosions took place inside the main headquarters of the occupation forces in Baghdad.
The area which was exposed to the attack includes the conferences palace, the headquarters if the interim self- rule, the former presidential palace and al-Rasheed hotel. Witnesses stressed that two missiles fired from al-Doura area to the south of Baghdad towards the area, and the American forces evacuated the hotel from its clients following the explosions.
The US deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who survived in the morning an attack by missiles at al-Rasheed hotel, expected that Iraqi security units working with the American forces had to have foiled the potential of a bigger attack.
The American administrator of Iraq Paul Bremer ordered full investigation in the missile attacks against al-Rasheed Hotel. Bremer, who is visiting the USA said that arresting the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will not stop the attacks in Iraq.
Meantime, one Spanish soldier was accidentally killed by one of his colleague's bullets in al-Dewaneyah to the south of Iraq. The incident took place when the victim's colleague was cleaning his weapon.
Two American soldiers were injured in armed confrontation when an American convoy was exposed to RPG shelling in al-Shababi area near al-Falouja city to the west of Baghdad. An American military spokesman said that the occupation forces killed several attackers.
The Iraqi police in Karkouk announced they defused one explosive found near the house of the police center in Karkouk. The explosive was implanted on the main road of al-Qadeseyah quarters to the east of the city.
In a first reaction to the attack he faced, Wolfowitz stressed what he called risks in Iraq, but he simultaneously vowed that the USA will not spare efforts to achieve settlement, noting that most problems come from what he named associates for the former Iraqi regime.
Wolfowitz is visiting Iraq for the second time during three months amid increasing talks on the collapse of the morale of the American soldiers as well as the escalated wave of condemnation inside and outside the USA of the war against Iraq.