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| 4 rockets ready for firing on U.S. base seized in Kut |
| 2010-07-31 |
| WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi security force seized four rockets ready for firing in the direction of a U.S. military base in western al-Kut city on Friday, according to a local security source in Wassit province. “An Iraqi interior ministry force seized today (July 30) four Katyusha rockets in a farmland in al-Ahrar district, (25 km) western Kut,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The rockets, ready for firing on the Delta military base, (7 km) western Kut, which is taken by the U.S. forces as their headquarters, were defused by a bomb squad,” he said, adding intelligence tip-offs led the force to the site of the rockets. The Delta base had come on July 20 under attack with four Katyusha rockets but there was nothing revealed about possible losses or casualties. Kut, the capital city of Wassit province, lies 180 km southeast of Baghdad. |
| Posted by:Steve White |