Iraq identified connections between several of the perpetrators of the attack with rocket fire on December 7 against the US embassy in Baghdad and the country’s security services, Iraq’s prime minister said in a statement. The statement did not elaborate on which security services the alleged perpetrators were associated with, but did say how several of them have been arrested and how work continues to arrest others.
Iraqi security forces also arrested people who helped the attackers by providing logistical support for the attack and facilitated their movements near the fortified Green Zone where the attacks took place, according to the statement. The attack, the first at the embassy in more than a year, was believed to be a set-up escalating into weeks of attacks on US forces in the region, the responsibility for which was assumed by armed organizations of Iraqi Shia Muslims who have close ties to Iran, as reported by APE-MPE. No organization has specifically claimed responsibility for the attack on the embassy.
He was condemned by top officials of USA, who called on Iraq to hold the perpetrators accountable and reiterated that the US reserves the right to respond as it has done several times with airstrikes against militants. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani described the attack on the embassy as a terrorist act. Some of the heavily armed Shiite groups that have claimed a role in many of the attacks also form brigades in the Popular Mobilization Units, an Iraqi state security force technically under the command of Sudani himself.
These factions have vowed to continue attacks, citing Washington’s support for Israel’s heavy bombing of Gaza and the presence of US troops in Iraq, which they call an occupation force. In addition to its diplomatic staff in Iraq, the United States has about 2,500 troops in the country on a mission it says is intended to advise and assist local forces as they try to prevent a resurgence of the Islamic State militant group, which the 2014 captured large parts of Iraq as well as Syria before being subsequently defeated.
Source: News Beast
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