5 Rockets fall on Iraqi Bueira airport

Five rockets fell on the Buteira military airport, north of the city of Amara, the center of southern Iraqi Missan Province, on Monday night, causing no human or material damage, a Missan security source reported. "The Bueira Military Airport, 10 km to the northwest of Amara city, had been target for a five rockets attack, that caused no human or material losses," the security source told (Aswat Al-Iraq) news agency on Tuesday. He gave no further details, but said that an Iraqi Army force had inspected the areas close to the venue of the rocket attack, searching for the launchers of the rockets. The Buteira Military Airport is used by the Iraqi Army forces and had been target for several Katusha rocket attacks by unknown armed gunmen. Amara, the center of Missan Province, is 390 km to south of the Iraqi Capital of Baghdad.