US general: Iranian supplied rocket used to recently against troops
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A fatal attack launched two days ago against the headquarters garrison of the American military in Iraq was carried out using a 240 mm rocket, a type of weapon provided to Shi'ite extremists by Iran, a US general said Thursday.
One person was killed and a dozen were wounded during the "indirect fire" attack Tuesday against Camp Victory, which includes the headquarters of Multinational Forces-Iraq.
Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner said the rocket was launched from a populated area in the Rasheed District of west Baghdad, which he said was infiltrated by the Mahdi Army militia of anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Bergner said the rocket was a type of weapon which Shi'ite groups "have received from Iranian sources in the past and used against coalition forces."