Posted on 03/13/2020 7:14:24 PM PDT by Beave Meister
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States waged a series of precision air strikes on Thursday against an Iran-backed militia in Iraq that it blamed for a major rocket attack a day earlier that killed two American troops and a 26-year-old British soldier.
The U.S. strikes appeared limited in scope and narrowly tailored, targeting five weapons storage facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah militants, including stores of weaponry for past attacks on U.S.-led coalition troops, the Pentagon said.
In a statement, Iraqs military said the U.S. air strikes hit four locations in Iraq that housed formal Iraqi police and military units, in addition to the paramilitary groups.
Three Iraqi army soldiers were killed and four wounded, police in Babel province said in a statement. Five paramilitary fighters and one policeman were also injured, they said, adding that the fate of two more policemen was unknown.
One strike hit an Iraqi civilian airport under construction in the holy Shiite Muslim city of Kerbala and killed a worker, Iraqi religious authorities said on Friday.
The U.S. military did not estimate how many people in Iraq may have been killed in the strikes, which officials said were carried out by piloted aircraft.
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Regardless of the demographics, Bethlehem is special, or holy, to Christians because it was the birthplace of Jesus, but the MSM would never publish that Bethlehem is special. However, they bow down to Islam and refer to Muslim cities as “the Holy City of Kerbala” or “the Holy City of Qom”, rather than “in the city of Kerbala ”.
I see your point. I was just curious how many Christians still lived there. I didnt even realize it was outside of Israeli territory.
...limited in scope and narrowly tailored, targeting five weapons storage facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah militants, including stores of weaponry for past attacks on U.S.-led coalition troops... Iraqs military said the U.S. air strikes hit four locations in Iraq that housed formal Iraqi police and military units, in addition to the paramilitary groups... One strike hit an Iraqi civilian airport under construction in the holy Shiite Muslim city of Kerbala and killed a worker, Iraqi religious authorities said on Friday.
And the US strikes also destroyed a coronavirus vaccine research facility that had just perfected a cure. /sarc
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