2 persons detained after rocket attack on U.S. base in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Kirkuk police have arrested two men, suspected of having been behind a rocket attack against a U.S. Army base in northern Iraq’s oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a Joint Coordination Center source in Kirkuk said on Wednesday. “A group of unknown gunmen launched a rocket early on Wednesday from an area, close to al-Ashara al-Mubashara Mosque in central Kirkuk, that fell on the main headquarters of the U.S. forces west of Kirkuk. Losses are still unknown,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. He said that a police force from Kirkuk’s Azadi Police Center headed towards the area, where the rocket was launched from, where it found a rocket-launch pad. They arrested two persons, who were in possession of a Kalashnikov rifle, a camera and a rocket launch-plan. Kirkuk is 280 km to the northeast of Baghdad.   SKH (TS)/SR 836