The advisor of the Regional Security Office of the US Embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, announced that the C-RAM air defense system had been tested.
Yaqin news agency quoted the adviser to the US Embassy’s Regional Security Office as saying that the defense system test will include sirens and bursts of gunfire, starting at one o’clock in the afternoon, Saturday, September 4, and will last about two hours.
In the same context, the spokesman for the joint operations, Tahsin Al-Khafaji, confirmed that the US embassy’s warning sirens and the handling of the “CRAM” air defense system is only a trial procedure carried out by the US forces entrusted with protecting the embassy from any attacks, noting that there is no bombing operation. The embassy, as well as the absence of any human or material damage.
And Iraqi media announced, last July, targeting the vicinity of the American embassy in the capital, Baghdad, with two Katyusha missiles.
And the Alsumaria News website quoted a security source as saying that “two Katyusha rockets targeted the vicinity of the US embassy in the capital, Baghdad,” adding that “the C-RAM system failed to dispel the rockets, and a number of the system’s fragments fell on a number of civilian wheels and a house.” in the Mansour district.