Rockets fired at British base in Iraq
Unidentified attackers fired four rockets on a base with British and Danish troops in southern Iraq, but caused no injuries or damage, Denmark’s military said today.
Four rockets hit the Shaibah Logistics Base near Basra late yesterday, but only two of them exploded, Defence Command Denmark said in a statement.
“There has been no damage and no one was injured,” the statement said.
The base houses hundreds of British troops and Denmark’s entire Iraq contingent of 530 troops.
The Ministry of Defence said it had no reports of any incident or injuries at the base last night.
British forces in southern Iraq have frequently come under minor rocket or mortar attack.
Last week, the provincial council in Basra demanded the withdrawal of Danish troops unless the government apologised for Prophet Mohammed drawings first published in a Danish newspaper.
Denmark rejected the demand and said the Iraqi government wanted Danish troops to stay.
The council’s demand came in a statement in which it also condemned the alleged abuse of Iraqi males by British soldiers in 2004 in Amarah, a city in Basra’s provincial neighbour, Maysan.
