In a dispatch posted at 11:35am Mecca time Wednesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that a short time earlier, Iraqi Resistance forces fired four mortar rounds into the Japanese occupation forces’ base in the southern Iraqi city of as-Samawah.
Mafkarat al-Islam reported witnesses as saying that the barrage sent black smoke into the sky as sirens wailed inside the Japanese base. The four mortar shells landed in various parts of the Japanese-occupied facility, but were focused particularly on the western part of the base. No information on the nature or extent of casualties was available.