Two mortar rounds hit Green Zone, damage to house, demo

(16 Apr 2008) Baghdad, Green Zone 1. Various skyline shots with smoke billowing from the Green Zone Baghdad's Mustansiriyah neighbourhood 2. Wide of area where rockets slammed into 3. Hole in wall of home 4. Crater caused by blast 5. Various interiors of home with hole in wall 6. Various of damaged windows with broken glass 7. Wide of area 8. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Father of victim, name not available: "A rocket slammed into the home of my neighbour. My son and nephew were killed as a result of flying shrapnel." Nu'maniyah 9. Wide of demonstrators carrying banners, reading (Arabic): "we are all with the plan of enforcement of law." 10. Demonstrators marching and chanting (Arabic): "Yes, yes for al-Maliki" 11. Various of demonstrators chanting in support of top Shiite clerics 12. Wide of demonstrators marching and chanting STORYLINE: Two mortar rounds slammed into the US-protected and fortified Green Zone in Baghdad on Wednesday afternoon. The zone, which houses the US and British embassies and Iraqi leadership, has recently been targeted by rockets and mortars, causing casualties. In other violence on Wednesday, a mortar shell slammed into a house in a residential area of eastern Baghdad, killing at least three civilians and wounding at least three others, police said. "A rocket slammed into the home of my neighbour. My son and nephew were killed as a result of flying shrapnel," the father of one of the victims told AP Television. The bloodshed in the capital, as well as continued violence on Wednesday in Basra that included at least six dead and 18 injured, came a day after nearly 60 people died in a series of bombings in four cities in northern and central Iraq. The bombings struck directly at US claims that the Sunni insurgency was waning and being replaced by Shiite militia violence as a major threat. Still, in an address to the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki voiced optimism that his government would soon defeat al-Qaida in Iraq. And hundreds of residents of Nu'maniyah took to the streets chanting slogans in support of al-Maliki and his security crackdown plan in Basra, Sadr City and other areas. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...