America accuses an Iraqi brigadier and a Shiite faction on launching strikes on Taji

Shafaq News / According to an informed source, the American forces accused a brigade officer of arranging the new strikes on Al-Taji camp, and requested the Iraqi forces to investigate him.

The source told Shafaq News, "According to the available information, the Americans accuse the armed faction of Al-Nujaba Movement of carrying out the strikes, and also accuses an Iraqi brigadier of arranging the transportation of the missile platforms."

"The Americans insist that this brigadier be arrested for investigation."

On Saturday, the Pentagon announced that two of the three American soldiers who were wounded in the latest missile attack in Iraq were in serious condition and being treated in a military hospital in Baghdad, the first confirmation that Americans had been wounded.

The joint operations command announced on Saturday, that 33 Katyusha rockets fell on Taji base, north of Baghdad, in the second attack of its kind in a week on the base, which includes forces of the International Alliance.

Last Wednesday evening, Taji base was attacked by a missile that killed two Americans and one British, as Washington accused the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades of being behind the attack.

Washington responded at dawn on Friday by striking security and military sites in the governorates of Babel, Karbala and Albukamal region on the Syrian border with Iraq.