Two occupation soldiers were killed in a firefight in the Al Rashid district of the Iraqi capital at 11 p.m. Wednesday night, the U.S. Central Command in Tampa (Florida) announced today. A massive car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy in the Iraqi capital Thursday morning, killing at least eleven people and wounding 28, hospital officials and paramedics said. Paramedics at the scene said 12 bodies had been removed from the tangle of wreckage outside the walled embassy compound. Shortly after the blast, angry young Iraqi men stormed to the embassy gate and began destroying pictures of Jordanian King Abdullah II and his late father, King Hussein. It is believed that the bomb was planted in minibus parked outside the walled embassy compound and detonated remotely. Many cars were gutted and two bodies were seen still sitting in the vehicles. The chassis of the minibus landed on top of three of the burned out cars. The U.S. military and Iraqi police chased the protesting mob away after a few minutes. An American tank was parked at the main gate of the embassy compound on the west edge of Baghdad. Mandoh Gaahi, who witnessed the explosion, said the blast shook buildings and broke windows hundreds of yards away. The chassis of the minibus landed on top of three of the burned out cars. A Sudanese man working as a waiter at the embassy said those inside heard the explosion and many of them suffered minor injuries from the shock of the blast. He was bleeding from the left side of his face. Tensions between the neighboring countries have been high because of Jordan's support for the U.S.-led war on Iraq. While Jordan is a major entry point into Iraq and remains a large trading partner, many Iraqis are resentful that Jordan dropped its support for Saddam Hussein after the 1991 Gulf War, and allowed U.S. troops to use its soil as a base during the latest war. King Abdullah II last week granted "humanitarian asylum" to two daughters of Saddam, whose husbands took refuge in Jordan but were lured back and killed by Saddam's regime in 1996. **PHOTO CAPTION*** Iraqi policemen and U.S. soldiers stand next to a destroyed car at the scene of the bomb attack in front of Jordanian embassy in the suburbs of Iraqi capital Baghdad, August 7, 2003. (Suhaib Salem/Reuters)