Multiple rockets fired at US embassy perimeters in central Baghdad today. 1 dead, 7 injured.

[ffr]

Link to tweet

[Laelth]

1. Not good. n/t

-Laelth

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. What kind of weapon is this?

Hi speed munitions? What was the flash/explosion after the firing stopped? Anyways, looks like Trump has laid the groundwork for another embarrassing US exit from the region.....

[ffr]

3. Similar to this

[OAITW r.2.0]

4. Thanks for posting. So a gattling gun on steroids.

With hi-def target acquisition and tracking. I wonder what the firing rate and bullet caliber is. I'm thinking 20 or 30 mm cannon shells?

[Revanchist]

5. 20 mm 4,500 rounds per minute

I was in the Navy, our version, CWIS was either 3,000 or 4,500 rpm depending on the model.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. Interesting....my nephew is on a ship and he's crewing a weapon system.

Will have to ask him about this.

Another question.....is that 3-4500 rounds per barrel per minute? Regardless, that is a shitload of lead to throw up.....

[Budi]

9. Geezus! 4500 rounds per min.

Yikes.

[dware]

14. Didn't you Navy guys call this weapons system

R2D2 because it resembles the Star Wars droid?

[Budi]

6. So is something about to go down that required Trump to remove US Troops?

He's left us vulnerable & owes some paybacks

His foreign policy decisions are frightening.
And not in US interests

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Sounds to me like it might have been the result of the threat to remove them

That Embassy was Saddam's palace at one time and I think they used to call that whole area "the green zone". IIRC, that is the largest embassy in the world.

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. Don't think it was Saddam's Palace.

It was a Billion Dollar Monument to the Bush Folly.

[Budi]

12. Well that too. Kingmakers & takers

Crap.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. You're right - they vacated the palace and gave it back with opening of the new embassy in 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7811088.stm

When Obama got in, I pretty much started tuning out of the Iraq mess (but still have a big pile of VCR tapes of hearings and panels on it )

[Budi]

11. Oh yes! Recall that now.Thanks. It was Sadam's Palace.

That makes it even more precarious, wonder who's calling the orders?

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Confirmed upthread that they had moved out of the palace and into a new bigger facility

I had lost tack after Obama got in and started withdrawing troops!

[Budi]

16. Thanks. Life happens fast & I can't keep up!

I don't trust anything from that region. Would help if we knew who was actually Leading this country.
😐

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Ginormous place!

[Marthe48]

17. Is impeached traitor going to be investigated?

Where is trey gowdy?