Missile defused in southern Kirkuk
March 6, 2009 - 07:59:23
KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces on Friday managed to defuse a missile in southern Kirkuk, the deputy chief of the al-Muqdad police said.
“Policemen found on Friday morning (March 6) a missile and its pad near the games city in al-Kournish street in southern Kirkuk,” Colonel Kamel Ahmad told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, noting that the missile was defused by anti-explosives experts.
“The missile was targeting the airbase in Kirkuk,” he explained.
Kirkuk is 250 km northeast of Baghdad.
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