BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Iraq has identified links between several of the perpetrators of a Dec. 7 multiple rocket attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and some of the country’s security services, a spokesperson for Iraq’s prime minister said in a statement.
The statement did not elaborate on which security services the alleged perpetrators were linked to, but said several of them had been arrested and work was ongoing to arrest others.
Iraqi security forces had also arrested individuals who assisted the perpetrators with logistical support for the attack and facilitated their movements near the highly-fortified Green Zone where the attacks took place, the statement said.
The attack, the first on the embassy in well over a year, was seen as an escalation in weeks of attacks on U.S. forces in the region that were claimed by Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim armed groups with close links to Iran.
No group has claimed responsibility specifically for the embassy attack.
Military vehicles of U.S. soldiers are seen at the al-Asad air base in Anbar province, Iraq, January 13, 2020.
