Mortar Attacks Jar Iraqi Conference

NPR | By Jennifer Ludden,

Ivan Watson

Published August 15, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

A thousand delegates begin a conference in Baghdad to choose an interim national assembly. The proceedings were disrupted when insurgents fired mortar shells that hit a bus station near the meeting hall, killing two people. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden and NPR's Ivan Watson.

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