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2020-12-21 Iraq
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Rockets 'targeting US embassy' rain on Baghdad's Green Zone
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[RT] Multiple rockets have targeted the Iraqi capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone on Sunday evening. The US embassy’s C-RAM air defense systems were engaged to intercept the missile attack, which it said resulted in no casualties.Footage published on the social media show the night skies over Baghdad illuminated with flashes of light as rapid-fire guns of the US C-RAM systems were used to intercept the incoming projectiles. At least three rockets were targeting the American diplomatic missions, the Iraqi security officials told AP, saying they were launched by an "outlaw group."
Most if not all of the rockets were apparently destroyed mid-air, and the US Embassy in Iraq later said that it resulted only in some minor property damage. The embassy then called on Iraqi leaders to prevent any such future attacks and to prosecute those responsible.
There are a network of pro-Iranian groups in Iraq, including Kataib Hezbollah which is linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The groups also include Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, the Badr Organization and Rab’Allah, as well as a series of other small groups. Many of these are linked to the Popular Mobilization Forces or Hashd al-Shaabi. They are in turn paid salaries by the Iraqi government as an official paramilitary force.
This makes them a cross between Lebanese Hezbollah and the IRGC in Iraq. Many use symbols similar to the IRGC. Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, head of Kataib Hezbollah and deputy of the PMF was killed by a US Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
in January 2020 when driving with IRGC Quds Force head Qasem Soleimani. The US said they were plotting attacks days after militias tried to storm the US embassy.
The rocket attacks began in May 2019. However tensions go back much further. These groups carried out attacks on the US after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Muhandis was wanted by the US for decades in connection with terror attacks in Kuwait. Qais Khazali, head of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, was once detained by the US at Camp Cropper in 2007. These groups have vowed to eject the US from Iraq. Even though the PMF and US both fought ISIS the US is seen by Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
as its most implacable enemy.
The Trump administration increased sanctions on Iran. Pro-Iranian militias killed a US contractor near Kirkuk with a rocket attack in December 2019 and also killed three US-led Coalition personnel in March. The US responded with airstrikes.
The US has warned numerous times against more rocket attacks. In the spring of 2020 the US withdrew from a half dozen facilities in Iraq, including K-1, Q-West, Taji and other bases, and then installed C-RAM, an air defense system, in Baghdad at the embassy compound. The embassy compound in the Green Zone is a favorite target of the militias, particularly the Union III base near it. Another facility at the airport is also a frequent target.
The Iranian-backed militias use 107mm katyusha rockets often mounted on purpose built metal launchers that are placed in the back of white Bongo-style trucks. This is a unique setup used by the militias. In a rare event in September the Iranian-backed groups use Grad rockets
...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
to target the vicinity of Erbil International Airport in the Kurdistan autonomous region in Iraq, a message to the US that even if the US leaves Baghdad’s embassy and moves forces to the Kurdistan region, the US will not be safe.
The Kurdish region is more pro-American despite the accusations of US betrayal of Kurds in Kirkuk after the Kurdish referendum in October 2017 and the US failure to defend Kurds in eastern Syria in October 2019.
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