The Wards Island shelter, a 200-bed facility for men and women called the HELP Supportive Employment Center, offers training for culinary work and for security guard, building maintenance and janitorial jobs, said Steve Lawrence, the center's executive director.
"We have no militia," the aide, Sheik Qais al-Khazali, said squatting on a mat outside a guard building across the street from Mr. Sadr's family residence in the Shiite holy city of Najaf.
The protective service, which guards buildings and properties that are owned by or leased to the federal government, is part of the homeland security agency.
The army said "terrorists" had attempted to storm the heavily guarded building.
I was standing at the entrance to the small wooden guards' building with another guard behind me.
It is located within an immense, highly guarded building that also houses Mars meteorite ALH-84001 and an architeuthis (a k a giant squid).
In a telephone interview, a witness outside the heavily guarded building, in an upscale neighborhood of government offices in Aden, a port city about 200 miles south of Sana, the capital, said that the gunmen had escaped with several detainees.
The Brotherhood said its people were attacked during morning prayers, but the army said an attempt had been made by "a terrorist group" to storm the heavily guarded building.
The bomb exploded in a toilet on the second floor of the heavily guarded building, one floor below the room where a cabinet meeting was being chaired by the administration's head, Akhmad Kadyrov, and the prime minister, Stanislav Ilyasov.
The former Register-Guard building was leased by the University of Oregon and renamed the Baker Downtown Center for the Baker family.
