ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION).<br/> <br />STORY: A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near the Baghdad home of new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday (August 12), two police sources and local media said.<br/> <br />There was no word on casualties but a building was severely damaged, and debris remained scattered on the ground early on Wednesday (August 13) .<br/> <br />Officials in Abadi's office were not immediately available for comment on the attack. One official said: "We are in a meeting".<br/> <br />Iraq's president nominated Abadi, a low-key figure, as prime minister because he is seen as a moderate Shi'ite, unlike his predecessor Nuri al-Maliki, widely regarded as an authoritarian and sectarian ruler.<br/> <br />Maliki rejected calls by Sunnis, Kurds, some Shi'ites, power broker Iran and the United States to step aside for a less polarising figure who is capable of uniting Iraqis against Islamic State insurgents who seized large sections of the country.<br/> <br />Although Maliki condemne
