Four mortars struck Baghdad's "Green Zone" and six more rocked areas across the capital as polling stations opened, while at the same time in Baquba to the north, five blasts struck near voting stations, officials said.
The fortified "Green Zone" houses the Iraqi parliament, several ministries and the US and British embassies.
Two bomb attacks also hit areas of Baghdad, an interior ministry official said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq in a statement Friday threatened to kill voters, days after a series of suicide attacks and bombings killed dozens.
The Islamic State of Iraq, the Qaeda front in the country, said it was imposing a "curfew" on Sunday and anyone who dared defy it would "expose himself to the anger of Allah and ... all kinds of weapons of the mujahedeen."
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