Posted on 10/09/2020 8:48:29 AM PDT by ransomnote
The ongoing, steady tempo of rocket attacks against US and official targets in Iraq continued this week. On Monday, two Katyusha rockets fell on the Jadriya neighborhood of Baghdad, close to the fortified Green Zone. There were no casualties.
Earlier, on September 27, five civilians (two women and three children) were killed when a Katyusha aimed at Baghdad airport fell short and fell on a private house. The five were members of the same family. On September 30, in an additional escalation, four rockets were launched at the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Erbil, and landed close to Erbil International Airport.
In all, around 80 rocket attacks have taken place against US targets in Iraq in the course of the last year. An organized campaign of violence and harassment against US targets in Iraq is under way.
So who is responsible for the current surge of attacks, and what is their purpose?
The areas from which the rockets have been launched appear almost exclusively to be neighborhoods and regions controlled by the pro-Iran Shia militias.
A previously unknown organization, Usbat al-Thaireen, has taken responsibility for a large proportion of the attacks. The organization was formally launched on March 14, 2020, on the same day as an attack on the Taji military base, where US forces were present.
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In all, around 80 rocket attacks have taken place against US targets in Iraq in the course of the last year. An organized campaign of violence and harassment against US targets in Iraq is under way.
So who is responsible for the current surge of attacks, and what is their purpose?
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US Troops have been in that county for 17 years. It’s well past time to come home. Only Lincoln Project grifters could still support keeping them there.
Could be Iran. They are always suspect # one.
Having established a wonderful, tolerant, and Jeffersonian-style democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan, I think it is time for us to consider our mission completed, and come home (sarc/off)
The purpose is to get the US to send more troops. The globalists are freaking out that Trump is slowly pulling out of the ME. Without us there it will be harder, not easier, to recruit jihadis. This is terrifying the arms industry as well as the international financiers, various NGOs ,etc. These people need US involvement to keep their rice bowls full.
We have no counter-battery capability?
The purpose is to make it look like our planned and announced withdrawals occurred because they drove us out - alHamdul’ allah!
Its always their way
Will happen in Afghanistan, too
Launch points are probably adjacent to a school, hospital, or mosque.
Plenty. The problem, I’m told, is the ROE. Same as it ever was...
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