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Rockets fired at U.S. embassy land inside Baghdad's Green Zone, damaging compound
Reuters ^ | 12/20/2020 | Ahmed Rasheed, Hesham Abdul Khalek

Posted on 12/21/2020 1:18:53 PM PST by xomething

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least eight Katyusha rockets landed in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone in an attack targeting the U.S. Embassy, causing some minor damage on the compound on Sunday, the Iraqi military and the embassy said on Sunday.

The Iraqi military said an “outlaw group” fired eight rockets. Most of the missiles hit a residential complex and a security checkpoint inside the zone, damaging buildings and cars and wounding one Iraqi soldier, a military statement said.

Sirens blared from the embassy compound inside the zone, which houses government buildings and foreign missions.

An anti-rocket system diverted one of the rockets, said one security official whose office is inside the Green Zone.

The U.S. Embassy condemned the attack and urged all Iraqi political and governmental leaders to take steps to prevent such attacks and to hold accountable those responsible.

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TOPICS: Current Events; Islam
KEYWORDS: bot; iraq; islam; oldnews

1 posted on 12/21/2020 1:18:53 PM PST by xomething
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To: xomething

$1 billion price tag-hope it was worth it.


2 posted on 12/21/2020 1:20:08 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (`)
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The coordinates of the green zone are exactly defined on GPS mapping. Its child’s play to direct ordnance with rudimentary guidance systems directly on target.


3 posted on 12/21/2020 1:23:01 PM PST by allendale
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What happened to using drones to take out the trash I wonder.


4 posted on 12/21/2020 1:30:04 PM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: xomething

If Biden is sworn in, I hope God does not desert us to another round of Endless Wars and another decade of decline.


5 posted on 12/21/2020 1:30:41 PM PST by montag813
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Why are we still there?


6 posted on 12/21/2020 1:31:34 PM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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These idiots must have thought Biden was inaugurated on December 20th, not January 20th.

Trump will not like this...


7 posted on 12/21/2020 1:33:14 PM PST by shotgun
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Get ready for much more of this. If Biden is allowed to take office it will be open season on Americans abroad. There will be a long line of body bags and their deaths will be the fault of the Biden/Harris administration, the leftist media, and everyone who voted for them, even the dead voters. Naturally the commie media will somehow spin it into Trump’s fault and the lazy half of the country’s population will believe it because they don’t have enough intelligence to know they are being lied to and besides its easier to just believe what CNN says and digging deeper to find the truth is so hard.


8 posted on 12/21/2020 2:06:19 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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Spent 2 years in AFGH.. IDF is a common occurrence.. No big deal..


9 posted on 12/21/2020 2:11:01 PM PST by dakine
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Nuke em......


10 posted on 12/21/2020 2:14:29 PM PST by chopperk (Warnock doesn't have a chance if Stacy sits on him.)
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