The statement did not elaborate on which security agencies the alleged perpetrators were associated with, but said that several of them had been arrested and that work was continuing to arrest others.
Iraq has identified links between several of the perpetrators of the Dec. 7 rocket attack on 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 agencies the alleged perpetrators were associated with, but said that several of them had been arrested and that work was continuing 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 seen as an escalation in weeks of attacks on US forces in the region claimed by Iraqi Shiite Muslim armed groups with close ties to Iran.
No organization has specifically claimed responsibility for the attack on the embassy.
It was condemned by senior US officials, who called on Iraq to hold the perpetrators accountable and reiterated that the US reserved 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 in 2014 it captured large parts of Iraq as well as Syria before being subsequently defeated.
Source :Skai
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