4 individuals had been wounded on Sunday in an assault on Balad air base in northern Iraq which homes U.S. personnel.The Iraqi army mentioned in an announcement that eight Katyusha rockets had been fired on the base, about 80km (50 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, and that the 4 wounded included two officers.Navy sources recognized the wounded as Iraqi troopers. They mentioned seven mortar bombs had hit the bottom’s runway.There was no phrase of any U.S. casualties among the many U.S. forces on the base.The Iraqi army assertion didn’t say who was behind the assault and made no point out of heightened tensions between the United States and Iran, which final Wednesday fired missiles at two army bases in Iraq which home U.S. forces.
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