From the beginning, I’ve referred to the incident at the embassy as a “Failed Attack”. They were not protesters at all, but militia. Had the embassy not been so well defended, it would have been a disaster. Instead, they got lots of press coverage and pretty photos of them damaging and rioting outside the actual embassy, quickly followed by the death of their leader.
FAILED ATTACK
Right.
Abu Mahdi AlMuhandes of PMU led the “protesters”. They could not overcome the inner security shield the Marines defended. That was on Wednesday, no? Wednesday night, V-22 Ospreys landed 100 heavily armed and ordnance Marines.
Thursday, the crowds of “protesters” came back, but then all left. AlMuhandes could see it was going to be a LOT harder to succeed with all the reinforcements there.
I think they left due to orders from Soleimani, who told AlMuhandes, “Stop operations for now, I’ll come out tonight and take complete control.”
He didn’t realize we were listening.
It couldn’t have been many hours, local time, from the last protestor leaving the Embassy area early Thursday afternoon and Qassem getting on his “Charmed” flight to Baghdad.
They was killed 5 minutes after they landed and AlMuhandes rolled up to the deck stairs in his SUVs.
Question to you... What do you think Soleimani was up to? What were his intentions, beside trying to fix a failed Embassy takeover, that day?