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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Fortuantely, I wasn't drinking a glass of wine when I read this...
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 !!!!!
Marines captured Hadi al-Amiri tonight too
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.
And, he'll be able to vote Democrat in the 2020 US election...
Dead is posting international news/reaction.
Same if someone had posted TASS reporting from Russia.
Yesterday the Iranian leader mocked Trump saying “you can’t do a damn thing!”
...seems to me, somebody did something.
decapitation
Thank you for the well placed and important announcement!
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.
That’s what I was thinking...top Iranian military just happened to be in Baghdad? Hmmm
Yeah, but your discussion of same on the thread is critical. Patriot!
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
So he's got that goin' for him, which is nice.
Hope there’s enough left of him to pee on.
Some people did some things...
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