Polish Embassy in Baghdad Attacked
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More than a dozen insurgents attacked the Polish Embassy in Baghdad (search) with automatic weapons Sunday, and embassy guards returned fire in an exchange that lasted for a half hour, a Polish Foreign Ministry (search) spokesman said. No one was reported killed or wounded.
Aleksander Checko said "a group of about 15 attackers" opened fire on the embassy at about 8 p.m.
"The gunfire went on about 30 minutes. Our guards returned fire and the attackers disappeared," Checko said.
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U.S. troops went to the embassy, but the attackers had fled, Checko said.
Poland (search) is a U.S. ally in Iraq, where it commands a security force of 6,000 troops in a central part of the country.