By NNN-KUNA
Washington : Two people in the Green Zone in Baghdad were seriously injured by mortar and rockets over the weekend, the US State Department said.
Spokesman Sean McCormack said Monday two others in the US-protected zone were treated at medical facilities and released.
As is customary, McCormack declined to discuss the Green Zone incident in detail, citing security considerations.
Asked about the death over the weekend of the 4,000th US soldier in Iraq since the US invasion there five years ago, McCormack said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice “mourns each and every person that has made this ultimate sacrifice, as well as keeping their families in her thoughts and prayers”.
The best way to honour the memory of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice “is to succeed in Iraq and to do what we can here at the State Department to help the Iraqis build a better kind of Iraq,” McCormack said.
The 4,000-mark US death toll in Iraq was reached after a roadside bomb killed four US soldiers on patrol in southern Baghdad late on Sunday.
Earlier on Sunday, mortar and rocket attacks pounded the Green Zone, the heavily fortified US-Iraqi military and government complex.