The Iraqi parliament is holding a special session a day after eight people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the building's cafeteria.
Two parliamentarians were among the dead and 23 people were also injured in the most deadly attack ever carried out in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone.
Members of parliament are expected to condemn the attack in the meeting which began at about 11am (07:00 GMT) on Friday with the reading of passages from the Koran.
However, many MPs appeared to have failed to attend the session.
The explosion on Thursday took place in a canteen on the same floor as the 275-member national assembly's main debating chamber.
Several ministers had been eating lunch when the blast took place.
'Huge blast'
Muhammad Awadh, a member of parliament from the mainly Sunni National Dialogue Front, and Asif Hussein Muhammad, an MP from the Islamic Union of Kurdistan, were killed in the blast on the building's first floor.
"We were having a meeting when suddenly we heard a huge blast inside the restaurant. I saw a lot MPs wounded and bleeding," Fouad al-Massoum, the leader of the Kurdish parliamentary bloc, said.
Three female MPs from Muqtada al-Sadr's parliamentary list were wounded in the explosion, along with three members of the United Iraq Alliance, the main Shia bloc in the parliament, Al Jazeera reported.
Taha al-Lihaibi, Salman al-Jumaili, Hahim al-Ta'i and two other MPs from the Iraqi Accord Front were injured, another member of parliament told al Jazeera.
US crackdown 'problematic'
Mahmoud Osman an Iraqi MP from the Kurdish Coalition, told Al Jazeera that the blast showed that there were problems with the US-backed security crackdown in Baghdad.
"The chances of success [in Iraq] are essentially zero because the Iraqi people have no voice"
"It shows that the problem is not just a security one, but a political one."
Osman said he hoped there would be a full investigation into the explosion.
Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, condemned the attack which she said was the work of "terrorists" opposed to recent US attempts to bring order to Iraq's capital.
George Bush, the US president, also condemned the attack.
"It reminds us, though, that there is an enemy willing to bomb innocent people and a symbol of democracy," he said.
High security
Security officials at the parliament had used sniffer dogs earlier on Thursday as people entered the building - a measure rarely employed.
Attacks in the Green Zone are relatively rare although fighters regularly fire projectiles such as rockets and mortar rounds into the compound from outside its heavily guarded walls.
Access is closely restricted to visitors carrying picture identity cards while everyone entering is required to pass through multiple checkpoints and metal detectors.
je pense qu'une nouvelle phase a commencé hier, et a mon avis c'est les iraniens qui sont a l'origine de l'attentat du parlement hier, et celui du pont arroussafia(une vraie perle de construction en irak, le plus grand pont du monde au moment de sa construction, tout en fer). Saddam avait refuser de le saper pour proteger bagdad en 2003. et ces 2 evenements sont a mon avis commandité par l'iran, pour faire echouer le plan securitaire americain pour Bagdad, vu que le gouvernement Maliki, commence a couper ces liens avec les iraniens, Mouqtada le plus grand allié de maliki, menace maintenant ce dernier..
et les usa reculeront apres ces evenements plusieurs mois derrieres, j'en suis convaincu. je suis meme pres a parier qu eles usa libereront les diplomates iraniens d'ici 1 a 2 mois.
Je ne sais pas qui a fait ça mais faut avouer que c'était drôlement osé en tout cas....le Kamikaze qui a déjoué tout le système de sécurité et qui se fait sauter en plein parlement... et le tout filmé!
De quoi faire flipper les officiers de la haute sécurité de la Zone verte!
Mais quand même parmis les victimes je vois 3 femmes membres du parlement de Muqtada al-sadr:
Three female MPs from Muqtada al-Sadr's parliamentary list were wounded in the explosion, along with three members of the United Iraq Alliance, the main Shia bloc in the parliament, Al Jazeera reported.
à moins d'avoir râté un épisode, la responsablité ne me parait pas si évidente...
Quelqu'un sait-il si cet attentat a été revendiqué?
chargement...
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