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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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To: dead
Now that is worthy of praise!

Keep stacking them up, Mr President...

61 posted on 01/02/2020 7:27:25 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: dead

“Severe retaliation”??? The medieval terrorists may soon understand what that really means.


62 posted on 01/02/2020 7:28:15 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

The Democrap Media can kiss all our Conservative Patriot posteriors.


63 posted on 01/02/2020 7:28:27 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: kiryandil

Yeah and now they regret it. LOL


64 posted on 01/02/2020 7:28:36 PM PST by WWG1WWA ("Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity." - Marcus Aurelius)
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To: dead

Thank God that we have a POTUS whose balls are intact.


65 posted on 01/02/2020 7:28:44 PM PST by RouxStir (No peein' in the gene pool.)
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To: dead

Two senior members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah are reported to be killed. One may be Mohammad Al-Kothrani.
...............
The Iranians had flown to Damascus to pick them up. Then off to Baghdad on a Cham Wings flight.


66 posted on 01/02/2020 7:30:34 PM PST by gandalftb
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To: dead

I’m solemn. I’m sober. I’m taking no joy in this.


67 posted on 01/02/2020 7:30:47 PM PST by oldplayer
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To: hal ogen
Yeah, turning Soleimani into a Post Toastie was just President Trump playing two pair in the Great Poker Game of World Politics.

Does Khamenei want to find out what Trump's hole cards are?  thinking face  face 

with tears of joy face 

with tears of joy face 

with tears of joy

68 posted on 01/02/2020 7:32:03 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: oldplayer
Okay, Nancy...

 face 

with tears of joy face 

with tears of joy face 

with tears of joy

69 posted on 01/02/2020 7:32:34 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: gaijin

Iran deal, Trump style.


70 posted on 01/02/2020 7:33:37 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: dead

I suppose rocket man is taking notes.


71 posted on 01/02/2020 7:34:42 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: WWG1WWA
SOLEIMANI speech in 2018 - POTUS ‘Come, we are waiting for you’

Whoops.

There goes all of Soleimani's New Year's resolutions, down the drain...

72 posted on 01/02/2020 7:34:45 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: oldplayer
I’m solemn. I’m sober. I’m taking no joy in this.

It's okay. I got enough for bofus.


73 posted on 01/02/2020 7:34:58 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: tennmountainman

Hey watch it about 72 year olds, I am 79 and still look beautiful LOL


74 posted on 01/02/2020 7:35:34 PM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or want gov't to protect your wage levels. Can't be both.)
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To: RouxStir

I love a man with the balls to do something. Sick of all these pussy men.


75 posted on 01/02/2020 7:36:18 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: Raycpa
I suppose rocket man is taking notes.

Yeah, I guess Soleimani got a vase after all.

Ayatollah Khamenei can keep him in it...

76 posted on 01/02/2020 7:36:45 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: kiryandil

Legit question...this was one of the top ten Iran military guys and he had zero necessity to be in Iraq. He could have easily made phonecalls safely from Iran impress his ‘friends’ in Baghdad.

I would take some guess that there was some planned effort about to start up in the next week, and he was part of the ‘sales-team’ to ensure things were bought by the Iraqi players in this scheme.


77 posted on 01/02/2020 7:36:56 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: kiryandil
Hey, girls...


78 posted on 01/02/2020 7:38:25 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: gandalftb

The Iraqis are picking them up, now. What they can find, anyway.


79 posted on 01/02/2020 7:38:56 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: jacknhoo
Soleimani was on his way to Pismo Beach with Bugs Bunny.

They must have take a wrong turn at Albuquerque...

80 posted on 01/02/2020 7:40:15 PM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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