Blast pinpoints U.S. Army patrol in Basra, no casualties

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: An explosive charge blew up targeting a U.S. Army patrol in southern Iraq‘s Basra city on Wednesday, without causing any casualties, a Basra Province’s security source said. “A U.S. patrol was attacked by an explosive charge, planted on a road close to the Basra Car Shows, 8 km to the south of the city,” the security source said, adding that the blast did not cause any human casualties or material damage. Noteworthy is that the U.S. Combat Troops withdrew from Iraq at the end of August last, according to the Security Agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington at the end of 2008. The agreement had reiterated the withdrawal of the remaining U.S. troops, estimated to reach 50,000, by the end of next year. Basra, the second largest city in Iraq after Baghdad, is 590 kms to the south of the Iraqi capital. SKH/SR 1