Sad news coming out of Iraq. Five U.S. soldiers have been killed, when five rockets struck a base that surrounds Baghdad.
The U.S. soldiers were killed in central Iraq, marking the deadliest day for U.S. forces there in more than two years.
“Five US service members were killed Monday in central Iraq,” a U.S. army statement said, without giving further details.
An Iraqi interior ministry official and an Iraqi police officer said five rockets struck the sprawling Camp Victory base which surrounds Baghdad’s international airport in the outskirts of the city, but more information was not immediately available.
Both Iraqi officials said that the bodies of two apparent attackers were found outside the U.S. base, badly burned from two rockets which exploded inside their vehicle.
Another Iraqi official told the Associated Press that the U.S. troops were staying on the Iraqi base as advisers and the rockets hit near their living quarters.
Monday’s attack killed the highest number of U.S. service personnel in a single day since May 11, 2009, when a U.S. soldier opened fire on five of his colleagues on a base just outside Baghdad. That solider was later arrested and charged with the killings.
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Barack Obama tweeted 10 months ago: “As a presidential candidate, I pledged to bring the Iraq war to a responsible end. That’s exactly what we’re doing—as promised, on schedule.”
