stolen from stars & stripes forever
Posted on 01/02/2020 7:01:04 PM PST by dead
Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani, the powerful head of Iran's elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad International Airport, Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials officials said Friday.
The officials said the strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, which were responsible for the recent attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
An official with the PMF blamed the U.S. military for the strike. 'The American and Israeli enemy is responsible for killing the mujahideen Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani,' said Ahmed al-Assadi, a PMF spokesman.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that strikes had been carried out against two targets linked to Iran in Baghdad on Thursday but declined to give any further details.
American officials have made no public comments on the strike yet. The Pentagon and the White House did not immediately respond to inquiries from DailyMail.com. Soon after news of the strike spread, President Donald Trump tweeted an image of an American flag, offering no remarks or explanation.
The audacious airport strike is a potential turning point in the Middle East as U.S.-Iran relations teeter on the brink, and is expected to draw severe retaliation from Iran and and its Shiite allies against Israel and American interests.
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LOVE that link you posted. I wonder if CNN and MSNBC and the other mainstream media will be showing the Iraqis celebrating the dirt ball’s death? Somehow, I doubt that. Thanks for posting.
Benghazi - 13 hours begging for help, soldiers told to stand down
Baghdad attack - 13 minutes until help is on the way, 13 hours until the mastermind is dead in a strategic strike.
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Yep. Notice how quickly the mainstream media will drop the “this is Trump’s Benghazi” DNC talking point! The comparison is devastating to the ‘RATS!
stolen from stars & stripes forever
You win the thread!
That had to hurt...
Just think how bad Obama and Bernie Sanders feel...
“By mess” just referring to Middle East in general. So grateful there hasn’t been another 9/11 on US soil but Bin Laden is dead and yet still - our soldiers are dying in Afghanistan.
(I realize Afghanistan is not Middle East.)
(Nods.) You've got a point.
It’s just...Bin Laden died and yet still so many soldiers dying in Afghanistan.
Brennan, head of the CIA, was a Muslim convert.
ValJar - Muslim.
Peter Stzrok -- his dad was a big fan of Iran.
Stzrok's girlfriend, Lisa Page -- her Mom was Iranian.
John F'ing Kerry married his daughter off to an Iranian bigwig.
And you have the nerve to look surprised?
Why didn't Dubya reveal 0moeba's non-natural-born status?
“Check me if I’m wrong here, Sandy - but what was an Iranian general doing hanging about in Iraq, 90 miles from the nearest Iranian border crossing?”
There he was, just minding his own business, not hurting anybody, and... BAM!
Actually I don’t. I wasn’t paying enough attention, and I assumed that these primitive screwheads, driving along in target order would have to be in Tehran. I was wrong. I figured they would have to be window licking, short bus riding, drool cup wearing idiots to be riding around like that in Baghdad. Looks like I was right about that. Still a pretty good whack though.
“In Iraq we feel supremely defied.
It’s 6,200 miles away from DC; I looked it up.
On our own border..?
Not so much. “
I’m with you !
Tired of winning yet ?
Well Played, Sir...
Almost makes you think the Russkies stood down, right?
Like they did in Syria.
The Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), has been doing the dirty work behind the scenes for Iran for decades, playing divide and conquer.
The elite paramilitary arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) built up an extensive network in the war-torn country, recruiting Iraqis and supporting not only Shiite militias but also Shiites allied with Washington, D.C.
The Quds Force and other elements operate covertly or sometimes openly overseas, working with Hezbollah of Lebanon, Shiite militias in Iraq and Shiites in Afghanistan.
Ali Alfoneh, an Iranian-born scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, cast the strategy of the Quds Force as reflecting a larger trend in Iranian society: its slow transformation from a radical Islamic theocracy to a military dictatorship, with the IRGC assuming ever greater powers.
“This is an organization [that] has engaged in spreading sectarian terror in Iraq. And now, this is the force that the Iraqi government has turned to for help in order to liberate Tikrit from Islamic State [ISIS] terrorists,” Alfoneh told Fox News in 2015. “In other words, we have one terrorist organization [that] is helping the Iraqi government get rid of another terrorist organization.”
The Quds Force reportedly has some 15,000 personnel.
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The Quds Force was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the United States in April 2019. It was the first time the U.S. designated the arm of another government as an FTO.
The U.S. and European Union have accused the Quds Force of providing weapons and other material support to help President Bashar al-Assad suppress the uprising in Syria.
Military analysts said the IRGC began deploying fighters abroad during the Iran-Iraq War from 1980 to 1988, "exporting the ideals of the revolution throughout the Middle East."
The Quds Force emerged as the de facto external affairs branch during the corps' expansion.
In Afghanistan, the Quds Force supported the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance starting in the mid-1990s.
In 2001, it shared intelligence with the United States to topple the Taliban, reportedly prompting Soleimani to remark that "maybe it’s time to rethink our relationship with the Americans."
Relations soured in 2002, and U.S. officials have since accused the Quds Force of arming and training the Taliban, a useful tool to counter U.S. influence on Iran’s borders.
"What Quds does is very specialized, the most dangerous work, operating underground," Mahan Abedin, an Iran expert and the research director at the London-based Center for the Study of Terrorism, said in 2007.
The Quds Force -- whose name means "Jerusalem" in Farsi and Arabic -- is the most elite and covert of Iran's military branches. Over the past two decades, the corps is believed to have helped arm and train the Hezbollah guerrilla group in Lebanon, Islamic State (ISIS) fighters in Bosnia and Afghanistan, and even Sudanese troops fighting in South Sudan.
The force is part of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, which are separate from the regular military, report directly to Iran's Supreme Leader and are tasked with protecting Iran's Islamic government.
The Quds Force, first formed in the 1980s and picked from the very best of the IRGC, is its special branch for operations outside Iran.
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https://www.foxnews.com/world/what-is-the-quds-force-the-elite-iranian-military-unit
Be nice to the “Squab”. They will elect Trump for us. They are our best ally in re-electing President Trump.With them at the forefront of the demonic party and crazy Bernie close behind we can’t lose.
THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!
Soleimani was credited with killing between 600k and a million people during his reign.Some were US soldiers in Iraq where his Duds force devised sophisticated IED’s to kill or maim many of our soldiers. This guy and the entire Quds force are evil.
Question now is who will take his place we need to figure that out and soon.
This is how ya do it, people.
Retaliation? Hilarious.
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