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| Iraq |
| Rocket attack kills 3 in Baghdad Green Zone |
| 2010-07-22 |
| A rocket attack on Baghdad's international Green Zone on Thursday killed two Ugandans and a Peruvian working for a U.S. security contractor hired to protect U.S. facilities in Iraq, the U.S. embassy said. Fifteen people, two of them American, were wounded in the attack, the embassy said in a statement. The dead and wounded all worked for the contractor Triple Canopy, a firm based in Herndon, Virginia, founded by U.S. special forces veterans. Its guards man security checkpoints for the embassy and U.S. military facilities in Iraq. "This cruel and senseless attack will not deter the United States from carrying out its goal of working with the Iraqi government and people to build a democratic future," the embassy said. U.S. officials declined to say exactly where the rocket landed. An Iraqi police source said it struck near the sprawling U.S. embassy complex. |
| Posted by:ryuge |