BAGHDAD, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- In what appeared to be a coordinated assault, Iraqi insurgents Thursday launched strikes at several sites across Bagdhad, CNN reported.
No fatalities were reported as night fell Christmas day.
The attacks began around sunrise, as at least six powerful blasts followed by bursts of automatic gunfire shook central Baghdad, the BBC reported.
Capt. Jason Beck with the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division told CNN the dawn attacks numbered at least eight and were "weak and ineffective."
The Coalition Provisional Authority's headquarters at a presidential palace on the western bank of the Tigris River absorbed at least five rocket attakcs, and the Turkish Embassy was also fired upon.
At least two rocket-propelled grenades hit the Sheraton Ishtar Hotel. Another whistled past the hotel, and yet more rockets exploded near the U.N. compound, the Iraqi Interior Ministry and an abandoned police station.
The attacks triggered siren wails and overflights of U.S. F-16 fighter jets.
