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Ballistic Missiles Hit US Troops at Base in Iraq, US Central Command Admits

US forces occupying Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base were targeted and injured, base infrastructure clearly damaged during ballistic missile attack carried out by Iraqi-based militias.

Via Reuters:

The U.S. military's Central Command said in a statement that the base was hit by multiple ballistic missiles and rockets fired by Iranian-backed militants from inside Iraq. The statement did not confirm the extent of any U.S. injuries but said personnel were being evaluated for traumatic brain injury.

US missile defenses failed to stop all missiles. No mention in the article is made of the type of defenses the base had, but it has been previously reported the base is protected by the Patriot system.

Reuters:

Offering a sense of the scale of the attack, Central Command said most of the missiles were intercepted though others hit the base.

It is interesting Reuters avoids naming the missiles as Patriots.

Attacks like these will only further stretch/expose as inadequate US air defense resources already disappearing rapidly and performing poorly in places like Ukraine and previously, Saudi Arabia.

The US occupation of the Middle East is strategically and politically untenable, just as its proxy war in Ukraine or its growing confrontation with China, yet Washington has only one gear - forward.

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