Two GIs killed, 26 injured in rocket attack

A ROCKET slammed into an American logistics base yesterday near the city of Balad, killing two US soldiers and wounding 26 people, and saboteurs again blew up a key oil pipeline.

Two GIs killed, 26 injured in rocket attack

Air and ground units responded to the attack, the military said. Balad is 50 miles north of Baghdad.

On June 6, a US soldier on the same base was killed and another wounded in a mortar attack. Camp Anaconda also suffered a mortar attack last July 4 that wounded 18 US soldiers.

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