WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Five Katyusha rockets hit the U.S. Delta base in western Kut on Thursday, according to a security source.“Unknown gunmen fired five Katyusha rockets toward the U.S. Delta base in western Kut,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The U.S. army asserted that no rocket landed inside the base, pointing out that the rockets may landed outside the base.
The base is the only location for the U.S. forces after all bases had been handed over to the Iraqi authorities as a step to implement the U.S. forces withdrawal agreement from the Iraqi cities. The Delta base will be handed over to Iraq in 2011.
Kut, the capital of Wassit, lies 180 km southeast of Baghdad.