Washington: One American died from wounds received in a wave of rocket attacks this week against the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad that seriously hurt four other US employees, an official said.
"During this period, a total of five US government employees have been injured seriously. One of those five has died from his injuries, and that was on March 24th," US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters yesterday.
He said he believed that the American who died was under contract to the US Army.
McCormack said "extremist criminal elements" on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and again yesterday fired rockets into the zone that serves as the seat of the Iraqi government and the US embassy.
