{"id":203808,"date":"2020-03-12T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T09:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203808"},"modified":"2020-03-14T06:45:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T06:45:51","slug":"two-americans-briton-killed-in-attack-on-base-housing-us-troops-near-baghdad-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203808","title":{"rendered":"Two Americans, Briton killed in attack on base housing US troops near Baghdad: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">PressTV \u2013 March 11, 2020<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_203817\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the_katyusha_rockets_were_fired_from_a_launcher_on_a_truck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203817\" class=\"size-full wp-image-203817\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the_katyusha_rockets_were_fired_from_a_launcher_on_a_truck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the_katyusha_rockets_were_fired_from_a_launcher_on_a_truck.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/the_katyusha_rockets_were_fired_from_a_launcher_on_a_truck-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-203817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The katyusha rockets were fired from a launcher on a truck.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Two Americans and a British personnel are killed after over a dozen\u00a0Katyusha rockets hit a military base housing American troops near the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a report says.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Citing two unnamed US officials, Reuters reported that based on preliminary information,\u00a0about a dozen coalition members\u00a0had also been injured in the Wednesday attack against\u00a0Iraq&#8217;s Taji military camp,\u00a0located some 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) north of Baghdad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The US-led military coalition in Iraq said in a statement that 18 107mm Katyusha rockets struck the base and suggested they may have been fired from a truck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It confirmed three troops were killed and about a dozen wounded but declined to disclose the nationalities of the casualties or offer any other identifying information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The attack is under investigation by the coalition and Iraqi security forces,&#8221; the military coalition said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Earlier, the\u00a0Iraqi\u00a0Interior Ministry&#8217;s\u00a0Security\u00a0Media\u00a0Cell\u00a0announced in a statement that the incident\u00a0took place in the evening when 10\u00a0rockets landed on Camp Taji, located some 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) north of Baghdad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The statement added that a Kia Bongo pickup truck with a missile launcher was found south of Baghdad&#8217;s al-Rashidiya district. It had three missiles in its back.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0633\u0642\u0648\u0637 \u0639\u0634\u0631\u0629 \u0635\u0648\u0627\u0631\u064a\u062e \u0643\u0627\u062a\u064a\u0648\u0634\u0627 \u062f\u0627\u062e\u0644  \u0645\u0639\u0633\u0643\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0627\u062c\u064a  \u0628\u062f\u0648\u0646 \u062e\u0633\u0627\u0626\u0631 , \u062a\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u062b\u0648\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0639\u062c\u0644\u0629 \u0646\u0648\u0639 \u0643\u064a\u0627 \u0628\u0646\u0643\u0648 \u062a\u062d\u0645\u0644 \u0645\u0646\u0635\u0629 \u0635\u0648\u0627\u0631\u064a\u062e \u0641\u064a\u0647\u0627 \u062b\u0644\u0627\u062b \u0635\u0648\u0627\u0631\u064a\u062e \u0645\u062a\u0628\u0642\u064a\u0629 \u062c\u0646\u0648\u0628 \u0645\u0646\u0637\u0642\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0627\u0634\u062f\u064a\u0629. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/onxirvQgTs\">pic.twitter.com\/onxirvQgTs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u062e\u0644\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0639\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0645\u0646\u064a?? (@SecMedCell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecMedCell\/status\/1237791908979773441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, which came\u00a0less than a week after two Katyusha rockets were fired at the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An Interior Ministry official\u00a0said at time that the incident took place on March 5 evening when the projectiles were launched at the zone, which houses the US embassy as well as some of the main Iraqi government offices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The official added the rockets landed on empty area and caused no casualty. A third rocket landed on a nearby area west of the Green Zone, without causing casualties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On January 14, Iraq&#8217;s military announced in a statement that the military camp\u00a0had been targeted by two Katyusha rockets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Four Katyusha rockets hit the same base on December 29 last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Anti-American sentiment has been running high in Iraq following the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the IRGC&#8217;s Quds Force, along with the deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization\u00a0Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis,\u00a0and their companions in US airstrike authorized by President Donald Trump near Baghdad International Airport\u00a0on January 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On January 8, Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) fired a number of ballistic missiles at Ain al-Asad air base, which houses US troops in Iraq\u2019s western province of Anbar, in retaliation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Two days after the US attack, Iraqi lawmakers unanimously approved a bill\u00a0demanding the withdrawal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Later on January 9, former Iraqi prime minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi called on the United States to dispatch a delegation to Baghdad tasked with formulating a mechanism for the move.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to a\u00a0statement\u00a0released by his office at the time, Abdul-Mahdi \u201crequested that delegates be sent to Iraq to set the mechanisms to implement the parliament&#8217;s decision for the secure withdrawal of (foreign) forces from Iraq\u201d in a phone call with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The 78-year-old politician said that Iraq rejects violation of its sovereignty, particularly the US military&#8217;s violation of Iraqi airspace in the airstrike that assassinated General Soleimani, Muhandis and their companions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The US State Department bluntly<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2020\/01\/11\/615889\/Iraq-US-troops-withdrawal\">\u00a0rejected<\/a>\u00a0the request\u00a0the following day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two U.S. and one British soldier killed after Katyusha rockets hit a military base housing Western troops near the Iraqi capital Baghdad <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iraq"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203808"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203818,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203808\/revisions\/203818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}