US Troops Under Fire; Baghdad Gets Hundreds of MRAPs
Citat:The 320 US soldiers and Marines at Al Asad air base in western Iraq have been coming under "regular" mortar fire from insurgent forces for several weeks, Defense Department spokesman Col. Steve Warren told reporters Monday.
While Warren insisted that the attacks have been "wholly ineffective" and "no US personnel, no US equipment have been impacted in any way," this was the first time that the Pentagon acknowledged that the 2,100 US troops in Iraq have been in danger since deploying late last year.
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