Already, signs point to this new plan in Iraq not working.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Police probing how a bomb was smuggled into a Baghdad ministry in a bid to kill Iraq’s Shiite vice president believe the attack was carried out by an insider.

“Thirty-five employees of the public works ministry are now under interrogation by the interior ministry about how the bomb was brought into the building,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity on Tuesday.

“Most of them are bodyguards and ministry security men,” he said, adding that those wounded in the explosion will be questioned once they recover.

Vice President Adel Abdel Mahdi escaped with little more than a few scratches when a bomb exploded Monday next to a room in the ministry where he was attending a function, but five people were killed.

The attack came as a city-wide security plan failed to halt the vicious sectarian carnage between Sunni and Shiite armed groups in Baghdad, which has seen a surge in bomb and mortar attacks since Saturday.

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