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| Iraqi president calls rocket attack on #TajiCamp 'terrorist' act | ||
| 2020-03-15 | ||
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More on these tweets from yesterday. [Rudaw] Thirty-three Katyusha rockets struck Taji air base and its vicinity on Saturday in a rare daytime attack, according to a statement by Iraq's Joint Operations Command released on Saturday afternoon. Three coalition troops and two Iraqis were maimed in the rocket attack, US-led coalition spokesperson Col. Myles Caggins said on Twitter. Joint Operations Command reported the "critical injuries" of "a number" of Iraqi troops in their statement, adding that the maimed were part of the air force. "This brutal aggression caused the injury of a number of members of the air defense, who are at death's door," read the Joint Operations Command statement. Iraqi forces located seven platforms which rockets were fired from in the Abu Azam area near Taji, north of Baghdad, the statement said. They found and defused 24 additional missiles at the sites. The attackers themselves are yet to be found, with the statement declaring that Joint Operations Command will take "all measures to prosecute and arrest those who carried out this act of aggression." "We also refuse that American forces or others take any action without the approval of the Iraqi government and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces," the statement added. The Katyusha rockets fired at the Taji air base come three days after American and British military personnel were killed in a similar attack, the deadliest to date. The US responded Friday with air strikes on arms depots it said were used by hardline members of the Hashd al-Shaabi, a network of gangs incorporated into the Iraqi state but which Washington has blamed for rocket attacks.
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