FILE PHOTO: MQ-1 Predators sit on the Bravo South parking ramp at Balad Air Base, Iraq © REUTERS/U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Tony R. Tolley
Reuters: U.S. forces prepare to evacuate contractors from Iraqi base: military sources
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces are preparing to evacuate hundreds of staff working for Lockheed Martin Corp and Sallyport Global from an Iraqi military base where they work as contractors, three Iraqi military sources said on Friday.
Nearly 400 contractors from the two firms are getting ready to leave Balad military base, which hosts U.S. forces some 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, over “potential security threats”, they said, without saying what those threats might be.
The U.S. military denied any planned evacuation from the sprawling Balad base, which last week was hit by three mortar shells. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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