WASHINGTON – The Pentagon said on Friday there had been no effort to play down or delay the release of information on concussive injuries from Iran’s Jan. 8 attack on a base hosting United States (US) forces in Iraq.
US President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and others throughout the US government said Iran’s attack on bases in Iraq, in retaliation for the killing of an Iranian general, had not killed or injured any US service members.
That is no longer true, the Pentagon now acknowledges. But US military leadership in Washington only became aware on Thursday that 11 US service members were flown out of Iraq due to concussive symptoms, Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said.(Reuters)
