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IRAQ MILITIA OFFICIAL KILLED IN AIRPORT STRIKE AMID U.S. THREATS TO IRAN
Newsweak ^ | Tom O'Connor

Posted on 01/02/2020 5:25:33 PM PST by LucienCA13

A senior Iraqi militia official has been killed in a yet unclaimed attack near Baghdad International Airport in what appeared to be the latest escalation following a week of unrest and bloodshed across the country.

Mohammed Redha al-Jabri, head of protocol of Iraq's state-sponsored Popular Mobilization Forces, was killed Thursday "along with three guests accompanying him," the Popular Mobilization Forces told Newsweek. The group denied rumors that Popular Mobilization Forces deputy commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was also killed or injured, saying he was "well and currently in his residence in Baghdad."

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 01/02/2020 5:25:33 PM PST by LucienCA13
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To: LucienCA13

7 simultaneous wars
$23 trillion in debt
2,000 invaders EVERY night


2 posted on 01/02/2020 5:26:15 PM PST by gaijin
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To: LucienCA13

even bigger....Iranian general also killed ..Qasem Soleimani

info her
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3805110/posts


3 posted on 01/02/2020 5:27:31 PM PST by janetjanet998
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To: LucienCA13

Maybe the Iranian guy who said the US could not do anything to Iran wasn’t so smart after all. Their actions just got a few of their top level terror and militia leaders killed, and President Trump just demonstrated to tyrants like the Iranians, and for that matter the North Koreans, that the USA can end their lives in an instant from many miles away.


4 posted on 01/02/2020 5:30:28 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: gaijin

A perspective that bears repeating constantly...


5 posted on 01/02/2020 5:30:48 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: gaijin

But we have paper straws; so there is that


6 posted on 01/02/2020 5:30:54 PM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: LucienCA13

We have MORE troops now in the middle-east than when Trump started out.

Our best Prez..?

Yes, but America First:

Walk it, don’t just talk it.


7 posted on 01/02/2020 5:31:50 PM PST by gaijin
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To: LucienCA13
And here:

Report: Quds Force Supreme Commander Qassem Soleimani Hit By U.S. Airstrike In Baghdad

8 posted on 01/02/2020 5:33:49 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: janetjanet998

Thanks for that.


9 posted on 01/02/2020 5:34:23 PM PST by LucienCA13 (sorry if you are microaggrieved)
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To: LucienCA13

Absolutely Yuge!

All the Israeli papers seem to be leading with it. This guy was a real baddie.


10 posted on 01/02/2020 5:36:38 PM PST by PlateOfShrimp
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To: LucienCA13

Hillary (”Can’t we just drone him?”) Clinton has a big sad today as a few of her pals ride the lightning of the final frying flesh ZOT!.....ZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!


11 posted on 01/02/2020 5:42:58 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: LucienCA13

Happy New Year, y’all.


12 posted on 01/02/2020 5:43:30 PM PST by madison10
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To: freeandfreezing

He was poking the bear on purpose. Wonder why...what did our resident traitors tell him to do?


13 posted on 01/02/2020 5:44:46 PM PST by madison10
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To: gaijin

So - what? You our resident draft-dodger or what?


14 posted on 01/02/2020 5:50:28 PM PST by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: Chainmail

Or what.


15 posted on 01/02/2020 5:52:28 PM PST by gaijin
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To: LucienCA13

If I were in Isreal I would keep an eye to the sky. This is about to get serious.


16 posted on 01/02/2020 5:53:23 PM PST by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: gaijin

Must mean “traitor in training”. If you want to live under a rock somewhere, move to New Zealand.


17 posted on 01/02/2020 5:55:40 PM PST by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: madison10; blu

We'll Put A Boot In Your Ass, Its The American Way

#CominToYouCourtesyOfTheRedWhiteAndBlue

#TheNewIranDeal


18 posted on 01/02/2020 5:56:41 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: LucienCA13

Team America F-Yea!


19 posted on 01/02/2020 5:57:05 PM PST by Jumper
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To: madison10

he shouldn’t have listened to J F’in Kerry and Obuggered. Now he’s dead.


20 posted on 01/02/2020 5:57:13 PM PST by davidb56
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