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Iraq: Rocket attack in Kurdish region kills foreign contractor



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Several rockets hit the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq on Monday, killing one foreign civilian contractor, and wounding five others, and one US soldier, the US-led coalition said. “Initial reports that Indirect Fire landed on Coalition Forces in Erbil tonight. There was 1 civilian contractor killed, 5 civilian contractors injured, and 1 US service member injured,” Coalition spokesman Colonel Wayne Marotto said on Twitter. The spokesman confirmed that the contrator killed was not an Iraqi, and reportedly not an American either. Four of the five injured contractors, however, were US nationals, according to US media reports.  At least three rockets landed near the …

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