Spokesman denies Maliki’s office ablaze

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: An official security spokesman denied on Friday that the office of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in central Baghdad’s heavily-fortified green zone was on fire. “News reports carried by a TV channel that fire broke out in the office of Maliki, who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi armed forces, in the green zone were groundless,” Maj. General Qassem Atta, the official spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC), told IraqiNews.com news agency. Atta urged the mass media to “observe accuracy and caution when reporting news and verify them from their direct sources”. AmR (P) 2