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BREAKING NEWS: Powerful leader of Iran's elite Quds Force military unit is killed in missile strike on Baghdad airport that left at least six others dead including top militiaman behind U.S. embassy attack
dailymail.co.uk ^

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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41 posted on 01/02/2020 7:20:18 PM PST by bitt (A FRIVOLOUS impeachment vote is a SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY)
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To: FirstFlaBn
They won’t be getting their security deposit back from the car rental company.

Fortuantely, I wasn't drinking a glass of wine when I read this...

42 posted on 01/02/2020 7:20:44 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: kiryandil

The MSM was HAPPY that our embassy was under attack they don’t give a shit that Solamani was in Iraq leading this whole damn thing!! They are ALSO very sad now that our POTUS has killed this BASTARD!!! Now the meme with them will be OMG Trump has now stirred a hornets nest, OMG the world is ending, OMG he did this without an act of Congress, OMG this is an act of war, you get the drift WE ALL know the LYING TRAITOROUS MSM so well !!!!!


43 posted on 01/02/2020 7:21:10 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: dead

Marines captured Hadi al-Amiri tonight too

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7844623/Barack-Obama-welcomed-leader-embassy-attack-White-House.html


44 posted on 01/02/2020 7:21:31 PM PST by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . .)
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To: kiryandil

The leftist media is not interested in reporting facts. They have abdicated that ever since Trump was elected in place of hatred and trying to get Trump removed from office. Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.


45 posted on 01/02/2020 7:21:33 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Bon mots
He's a member of The Grateful Dead, now.

And, he'll be able to vote Democrat in the 2020 US election...

46 posted on 01/02/2020 7:21:43 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: TexasGator; dead
"In side bar over an hour ago"

Dead is posting international news/reaction.

Same if someone had posted TASS reporting from Russia.

47 posted on 01/02/2020 7:22:38 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Yesterday the Iranian leader mocked Trump saying “you can’t do a damn thing!”

...seems to me, somebody did something.


48 posted on 01/02/2020 7:22:47 PM PST by The Antiyuppie (“When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day”)
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To: dead

decapitation


49 posted on 01/02/2020 7:23:23 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: TexasGator

Thank you for the well placed and important announcement!


50 posted on 01/02/2020 7:23:39 PM PST by coaster123 (XLV-MMXX)
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To: The Antiyuppie

51 posted on 01/02/2020 7:23:50 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: dead
Soon after news of the strike spread, President Donald Trump tweeted an image of an American flag, offering no remarks or explanation.

Ole' Wah!
52 posted on 01/02/2020 7:24:14 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: frank ballenger

I believe Quds is Islamic Arabic for Jerusalem. I remember watching a speech in Arabic by Brennan to a pan Arab group where he referred to Jerusalem by calling it Quds. The symbolic name for the Iranian group headed bte late Sulamania was to send the message the mullahs would conquer Jerusalem.


53 posted on 01/02/2020 7:24:16 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: jacknhoo

That’s what I was thinking...top Iranian military just happened to be in Baghdad? Hmmm


54 posted on 01/02/2020 7:25:08 PM PST by rainee (Her)
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To: Fungi

Yeah, but your discussion of same on the thread is critical. Patriot!


55 posted on 01/02/2020 7:25:32 PM PST by coaster123 (XLV-MMXX)
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To: dead

SOLEIMANI speech in 2018 - POTUS ‘Come, we are waiting for you’

ctc.usm.edu/qassem-soleimani/irans-unique-regional-strategy/

This is a big deal! Iran’s general Soleimani and 2nd in command bit the dust - 1/2/20


56 posted on 01/02/2020 7:25:41 PM PST by WWG1WWA ("Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity." - Marcus Aurelius)
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To: dead
And Trump says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathpyre by drone, you will receive total consciousness of just how wrong your drooling imbecile Ayatollah Khamenei is."

So he's got that goin' for him, which is nice.

57 posted on 01/02/2020 7:25:42 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: The Antiyuppie
Yesterday the Iranian leader mocked Trump saying “you can’t do a damn thing!”


58 posted on 01/02/2020 7:25:42 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: dead

Hope there’s enough left of him to pee on.


59 posted on 01/02/2020 7:25:43 PM PST by ryderann
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To: bagster

Some people did some things...


60 posted on 01/02/2020 7:26:07 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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