According to the Pentagon, at least 17 rockets were fired at a military
base in western Iraq which had a US military presence on Friday. Pentagon officials say that no coalition troops were wounded in the attacks.
It is not at all clear who was behind this attack, near the city of
Mosul. There have been no claims of responsibility, though the Pentagon
statement reiterated the right to resist ISIS remnants.
While Iraq rife with unrest, ISIS remnants, and the US at odds with
Shi’ite militias, there are a lot of potential suspects, but so far
there seems to be no real evidence, nor any haste to assign blame.
Mosul and the surrounding area was the main site of Iraq’s anti-ISIS
offensive, with huge numbers of people killed in the course of
eventually reclaiming the city. Though the US was deeply involved in
this, it isn’t even clear that the US was the target at the base, or if
it was a general strike against Iraq.
What, no blaming Iran?
If the Iraqi people aren’t back to shooting the American occupiers yet, they’ll get around to it.
Probably just kids playing with an old stash of the local brand of firecrackers.
Such a small attack and you seem to know so little about it . Why even bother to report this attack ?
Hmmm? Were you there or something? With no-one hurt, making light of the attack seemed just fine.
I didn’t report this attack, Fox News did, and 17 shots without doing any damage suggests amateurs making them as opposed to hardened fighters.
The old Soviet ordinance, if they were indeed katyushas, were never renowned for accuracy, further held back by being ‘monkey model’ export variants for export to Soviet Third World clients. If they were locally made variants, they would be even worse.
A barrage of 17 misses isn’t worth respect.