Under siege

The Polish embassy in Baghdad was hit by a missile on April 24, injuring one person. The missile hit the upper part of the building where the officers of Governmental Protection Bureau (BOR) were housed, BOR officials in Poland reported.

Whether the Polish delegation was targeted intentionally or not was unclear as WBJ went to press. The embassy might have been hit by chance, since the main object of attacks in the Green Zone is usually the US embassy, which is located 600 m away, according to the Polish Ambassador to Iraq Edward Pietrzyk.

"The area where our embassy lies is under siege ... nobody leaves the buildings," Pietrzyk told the press. 

This was the first attack on the Polish embassy since it was moved to the Green Zone in autumn of last year, but the attacks on Polish officials have taken place before.

This attack will not change Poland's Iraq policy, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said.