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"BAGHDAD (AP) — Explosions rocked Iraq's capital on Monday as Vice President Dick Cheney and Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain visited ahead of the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion.
Helicopter gunships circled over central Baghdad and the heavily fortified Green Zone, but no details were immediately available on the cause of the explosions.
McCain, the Republican party's likely presidential nominee who has linked his political future to U.S. military success in Iraq, met Monday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shortly before the Iraqi leader began talks with Cheney.
The Arizona senator stressed the importance of a U.S. commitment to Iraq and warned a U.S.-Iraqi military operation to clear al-Qaeda from its last urban stronghold of Mosul will be "very difficult and very important."
Blasts rock Baghdad as Cheney arrives - USATODAY.com
Helicopter gunships circled over central Baghdad and the heavily fortified Green Zone, but no details were immediately available on the cause of the explosions.
McCain, the Republican party's likely presidential nominee who has linked his political future to U.S. military success in Iraq, met Monday with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shortly before the Iraqi leader began talks with Cheney.
The Arizona senator stressed the importance of a U.S. commitment to Iraq and warned a U.S.-Iraqi military operation to clear al-Qaeda from its last urban stronghold of Mosul will be "very difficult and very important."
Blasts rock Baghdad as Cheney arrives - USATODAY.com