Three rockets are fired at US embassy in Baghdad and 'hit an apartment complex killing civilians' on second night of attacks in Green Zone following killing of Qassem Soleimani

DM ^ | 1/5/2020 | Hussain

[RummyChick]

Multiple rockets have been launched at the US embassy in Baghdad.

They are believed to have missed the embassy, with local reports suggesting they hit an apartment complex instead and killed civilians.

It is the second night in a row that the embassy has been attacked and comes after the US killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.

Iraq's military said in a statement on Sunday that three Katyusha rockets had fallen in Baghdad; two inside the heavily fortified Green Zone and one in the nearby Jadriya area.

Six people were wounded, police sources said, with one rocket thought to have hit a family home.

Residents of the Iraq's capital of Baghdad said explosions rang out inside the heavily-fortified Green Zone, home to the US Embassy and the seat of Iraq's government.

Alert sirens were sounded Sunday in the area on the west bank of the Tigris river.

[RummyChick]

THEY killed their own citizens

[GOPJ]

THEY killed their own citizens

Not the brightest bulbs in the box...

[goldstategop]

They don’t care. Then again, their hatred of us makes them their own worst enemy.

[McGruff]

three Katyusha rockets

Can't hit the broad side of a barn.

[Old Yeller]

They don’t care. Then again, their hatred of us makes them their own worst enemy.

Wait, are we talking about the Rats?

[Engedi]

Oh I am sure Obama, Pelosi, Kerry, Brennan all have their hands in making sure that civilian casualties arise over President’s decision to kill the “foreign official(snarky).

[McGruff]

This just in.

[Chgogal]

They and the Democrats have their hatred of Trump/us in common.

[SunkenCiv]

That should improve the public standing of the Iranian puppets.

[Labyrinthos]

They were only Sunni. /s

[Kozak]

Once again, why doesn’t the Green Zone have an Iron Dome unit to protect it from mortar and rocket attacks.

[xp38]

There should be a few Reaper drones above Baghdad ready to strike whoever is launching.

[metmom]

Doesn’t get any better than that.

Not that someone died, but that it wasn’t us and their attempts to get us just came back on themselves.

It’s not going to win them support at home.

[Zhang Fei]

[THEY killed their own citizens]

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This may be deliberate. Because dead Americans = dead militia leaders. If Solaimani was on the target list, every hostile in Iraq is on that list, because they are definitely way down the pecking order relative to him. And that includes the Iraqi PM.

[tbw2]

One theory is that this is an inside job. That the Persian general had control over the new security chief that was put in place several weeks ago, and that’s why they had the ability to essentially walk into the Green Zone.

That also means that Iraqi leadership has been taken over by Iranian puppets, and that’s why they just voted us out.

I do think we should leave. If they’ve given into Iran or just been taken over by it, we can’t fight that. And we can’t afford ANOTHER Iraq war.

[Kahuna]

Hopefully we are targeting the launch coordinates for an immediate boom.

[EandH Dad]

They wouldn’t have to kill their own people if we weren’t us. That’s the whole problem; we’re us and they’re them. If we were them and they were us there wouldn’t be a problem. Nah, they’d still kill each other.

[tbpiper]

I think the Katyushas are made by the Acme company.....

[traderrob6]

Circa WWII.

[Paladin2]

Iran needs to become a rocket producing free zone.