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Full capabilities which experts say they have weapons of pinpoint accuracy and interests that reach far beyond the middle east. Im wolf blitzer and you are in the situation room. This is cnn news breaking news. We are following that officials are confirming that two rockets landed a short time ago inside of baghdads heavily fortified green zone which includes the United States embassy and no word on who fired the rockets or where they came from, and this is coming one day after iran fired more than a dozen missiles at iraqi bases housing u. S. Troops. Tonight, we have learned that President Trump and his team have considered immediate retaliation for those attacks, but they decided to hold off, and moments ago following a briefing by the administration on iran, two republican senators emerge railing against what they have heard with one calling it the worst briefing he has he ....
Away from al asad air base, the site of wednesdays attack which was retaliation for the deadly airstrike on Qassem Soleimani. Arwa, when this happened, we do know it was retaliation, the strike at al asad. Are we hearing any more about this strike at Balad Air Base in iraq . Reporter well, first just to clarify a little bit about the nature of how these attacks occur here. This kind of a rocket attack at Balad Air Base, the rockets attack that happen on a fairly regular basis in the green zone, this is the tragic norm of what happens in iraq. And in this particular case, when it comes to what happened in balad, eight were fired, four iraqis were wounded. As you were saying, no coalition or u. S. Forces were at the base at the time of the attack. Now, thats the norm here. Compare that to what happened at al asad air bas ....
Last week. The first attack was retaliation for killing qassem soleimani. Arwa, neither of these attacks hit u. S. Troops that we have heard of or contractors that are stationed there, but what is the latest on how this happened . Reporter well, look, first of all, its worth noting that a attacks against these locations are fairly common. We do have official information of a number of mortar or rocket strikes happening at the al balad air base. At this stage no reports of casualties among u. S. Forces or contractors there, but some injured among the Iraqi Security forces. Remember, all of these locations also have Iraqi Security forces at them, and earlier we were up at the al asad air base. This is the base that was hit by those iranian Ballistic Missiles. Now, those strikes did not cause any casualties among u. S. F ....
The base. Although they would have been located there. This is a major air base and its an important air base for the iraqis as well as the americans. But, you know, alison, this has been happening regularly over the last several weeks really. And it was just a strike exactly like this that killed a u. S. Contractor in iraq and that resulted in the escalating tit for tat tensions that have led to exactly where we are now. The brink of war, and it was just over the past weekend that we walked back from that. And it seems as though this kind of thing is going to continue. What it doesnt seem like is that these sorts of smaller rocket attacks from outside bases, onto bases that may or may not house u. S. Soldiers, these are not really representative, i would imagine, of the trust of the retaliation that iran really wants to levy against the u. S. We just heard earlier today from hassan, the head of hezbollah. Thats one of the most battlehardened iranian proxies throughout the entire regio ....
Soldiers were injured but no u. S. Troops were harmed. Joining me, matt bradley in tel aviv, israel. Do we have any sense of who may have launched this rocket attack . Reporter its not entirely clear but this is consistent with previous rocket attacks, especially the make and model of the rocket. Remember, this is the type of rocket and this is the type of attack that started all of this a little more than two weeks ago. Thats when a rocket attack on an iraqy base that was housing u. S. Soldiers ended up killing a u. S. Citizen. Thats what caused this tit for tat retaliation and ended in the killing of Qassem Soleimani and brought us to the point where now. It likely is one of those iranian proxies. Rockets were landed in the iraqi air base. That was answered by the rockets that the u. S. Launched on the iraqisyrian border. It could be then again or any number of different militia groups backed by the iranians or not in iraq. Th ....