Washington-SANA
The commander of US forces in the Middle East, General Frank MacKenzie, described the targeting of Iran last year, the US base, “Ain al-Assad,” in western Iraq, in response to the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and his comrades “per minute”, warning that things would take us to war if we did not take the right step.
"It was an attack definitely unlike anything I have seen or experienced from," MacKenzie said in an interview with CBS News in an episode of "60 Minutes" that will be broadcast in full tomorrow, Sunday.
Before, their missiles are accurate, they struck largely where they wanted to strike, there was no anti-missile defense for the forces that remained at the base except for shelter. ”
McKinsey revealed that had it not been for the evacuations of a large number of American soldiers and their equipment, the losses in soldiers and equipment would have been great.
On January 8, 2020, the aerospace force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced the targeting of the “Ain al-Assad” base in western Iraq, where US forces are present with dozens of ballistic missiles.
For his part, Major Alan Johnson, the US Army, said that nearly 40 people were crammed into a bunker designed to protect ten people. The Iranian missiles looked like a freight train passing by you, and no one knew when the next missile would strike.
In late January of last year, the Pentagon acknowledged that 50 of its soldiers were wounded as a result of the Iranian missile strike that targeted the Ain al-Assad base in western Iraq, where Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Campbell, a Pentagon spokesman at the time, said, “Regarding the injuries resulting from the attack on the base to date. 50 American soldiers were diagnosed with brain injuries. 18 of them were transferred to Germany for treatment.