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By Yelena Mandenberg Several US troops and an Iraqi security member were hurt in a missile attack on Iraq’s Ain al-Asad air base, where American forces are based. The base was hit with “at least a dozen missiles,” according to a US defense source and an Iraqi police official. An anonymous Iraqi police official told AFP that “Al-Asad airbase was targeted by 15 rockets” fired from Anbar province, where the military base is located. He said that 13 of the projectiles were intercepted by anti-air defenses, but “two fell on the airbase.” A US defense official confirmed that “missiles impacted Al-As…

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