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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