Posted on 01/14/2015 1:11:49 PM PST by Dave346
Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander-in-chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ elite Al Qods Brigades, and senior officer of Iranian forces in Iraq, was seriously injured in a targeted attack by an ISIS suicide squad, debkafile reports from military and intelligence sources in the Gulf.
The attack took place near Samarra in central Iraq, after agents of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant managed to infiltrate his command staff and get close enough to their target before blowing themselves up. The date of the assassination attempt has not been revealed.
Soleimani, 58, who is a member of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s closest circle and a pivotal figure in Iranian military and intelligence, was rushed to hospital in Tehran.
In an exclusive report Tuesday, Jan. 13, debkafile first revealed that ISIS had adopted a new tactic of systematically targeting top officers fighting them in Iraq, especially the Iranians, in order to sow confusion and panic among the men under their command.
Soleimani won the epithet in the West as Iran’s Shadow Commander for pulling the strings of his country’s clandestine espionage and terrorist operations outside its borders. For nine years, he has masterminded Iran’s military and political involvement in three conflicts, starting with the Hizballah-Israel war of 2006, the nearly four years of Syria’s bloody conflict and the war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Gen. Soleimani it was who laid down the strategy Iran adopted in all these military interventions.
His latest project was a major effort to weld all of Iraq’s Shiite militias into a single popular army, after coming to the conclusion that the national Iraqi army was past rebuilding as a regular military fit for combat operations after its elite division fell apart in its first confrontation with ISIS. The US had invested $25 billion in rebuilding the Iraqi army.
Tuesday, debkafile reported that ISIS had managed to wipe out the forward command group of an Al Qods Brigades commando force early Monday, Jan. 12, killing its commander, Gen. Mehdi Norouzi. His chief is now in bad shape after a jihadist attack using the same modus operandi.
This is more like it.
Get them to fight themselves.
has debkafile ever been right about anything?
Nothing popped up on a quick google search.
Debka has a reputation of false positives - calling like 11 of the last three significant developments in the Mid East.
That is one guy who really is worth shooting though...
I’m goin’ to Disneyworld! :’)
the Iranians , and indeed all those in this fight , should adopt a similar tactic ; to directly target any and all ISIS command and control individuals that we can personally kill .
There should be zero ROE’s in attacking ISIS . No worries or concerns about collateral damages . Go for the throat , fire & brimstone . Hit their leadership until none remain . Including those that recruit or in any way facilitate in any other countries . No shelter , no protections . All are targets .
And no worries about collateral damage. Kill them all and the horse they rode in on.
I still wanna know what happened to the 100,000 CHICOM soldiers DEBKA said were waiting for us in Afghanistan back in 2001.
I’m tellin ya ....America needs to be led by warriors , not by lawyers . It’s time
I’m with you buddy, but its 1938 all over again. America won’t move until there is a new president and another Pearl Harbor. 2017=1941.
Already was (2001). Didn’t move then, won’t move now.
America can’t wait . We’re going to get nuked . And who will then accept the blame for that ? Which cities will we mourn ( and all the surrounding areas ) while the same idiots ,whom think they hold power , try and tell us that “ these people who did this are not really muslims ! they corrupt the true faith , etc etc etc “ .....
Your fellow citizen elected a moslem for president, twice. I don’t know what else to say.
The media and politically correctness have drummed all the wrong conclusions into the public. They foisted Obama on the nation as the great healer, the great peacemaker. He was elected TWICE.
Unless something really big happens, and I mean really big, this will go on until at least 2017. May God help us.
You’re just trying to be hurtful.
Sounds like a good day all around.
Nope. I still can’t believe he was elected, TWICE.
...and you don’t think that’s hurtful?
“”ISIS suicide squad””
Good - I hope they need at least 30-40 for a suicide squad...no measly couple of freaks.
He is not my President
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