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Pentagon: US contractor dies in rocket attack at Iraq base

by Samya KullabLolita C. Baldor
| March 3, 2021 8:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House warned that the U.S. may consider a military response to the rocket attack that hit an air base in western Iraq where American and coalition troops are housed. A U.S. contractor died after at least 10 rockets slammed into the base early Wednesday.

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