Posted on 01/09/2020 11:00:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Iranian General Qassem Soleimani arrived at the Damascus airport in a vehicle with dark-tinted glass. Four soldiers from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards rode with him. They parked near a staircase leading to a Cham Wings Airbus A320, destined for Baghdad.
Neither Soleimani nor the soldiers were registered on the passenger manifesto, according to a Cham Wings airline employee who described the scene of their departure from the Syrian capital to Reuters. Soleimani avoided using his private plane because of rising concerns about his own security, said an Iraqi security source with knowledge of Soleimani’s security arrangements.
The passenger flight would be Soleimani’s last. Rockets fired from a U.S. drone killed him as he left the Baghdad airport in a convoy of two armored vehicles. Also killed was the man who met him at the airport: Abu Mahdi Muhandis, deputy head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), the Iraqi government’s umbrella group for the country’s militias.
Investigators have focused on how suspected informants inside the Damascus and Baghdad airports collaborated with the U.S. military to help track and pinpoint Soleimani’s position, according to Reuters interviews with two security officials with direct knowledge of Iraq’s investigation, two Baghdad airport employees, two police officials and two employees of Syria’s Cham Wings Airlines, a private commercial airline headquartered in Damascus.
The probe is being led by Falih al-Fayadh, who serves as Iraq’s National Security Adviser and the head of the PMF, the body that coordinates with Iraq’s mostly Shi’ite militias, many of which are backed by Iran and had close ties to Soleimani.
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My guess is the Iranian puppets working in the Iraqi government have no idea what happened, so they’re looking for scapegoats. I pity whomever gets picked.
Good grief, the Prime Minister, Abdul Mahdi invited him and the Hezbollah reps to Baghdad. It was to be a state visit.
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Lots of people knew he was coming that night by commercial aircraft.
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The local PMU communications director went to pick him up and we knew when and where.
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Baghdad is a gossip festival.
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“Exclusive: Informants in Iraq, Syria helped U.S. kill Iran’s Soleimani”
What? No names? No addresses?
Members of the leftstream media all colluded to prop up the Russia hoax rather than doing any real journalism. They conspired to hide the identity of the whistleleaker. But they will aid and abet our enemies any chance they get. I hope I live to see the day these domestic enemies hang from lampposts.
Reuters serving their mullah masters. Toady media
Could just as well be disinformation we’re feeding to Reuters to get the bad-guys fighting among one another. We could have been tracking him directly; we could have a mole (or moles) in Tehran; hell, maybe Khamenei himself told us because Soleimani was threatening his rule.
This was a no brainer. You don’t have reapers on standby taking a kill shot 2 minutes after getting off a plane and into a car unless you got onsite human intelligence assets ready to call it in.
Well, they said they got it from the Iraqi official heading the probe who also happens to be an underling of the militia umbrella group whose official went to pick up Suleiman and got killed too.
Sounds like an Iranian version of Mueller’s team.
Or the Democrats will publish their names and addresses.
Or the Democrats will publish their names and addresses.
Uh, well, did he arrive at the airport in a car or in a plane?
Generally speaking, airplanes are not known as 'vehicles,' but as aircraft.
If he'd arrived in an aircraft and was killed on a subsequent flight, then the initial arrival could not have been his last flight.
So we blew up our informant? Did I miss that? What? LOL
It's a safe bet the drone was on standby circling the area when his plane arrived. We knew what plane he was taking before he boarded. Out of courtesy for the innocent civilians, we waited until his little convoy was clear of potential collateral damage. Nice shot!
Wasn’t there a briefing with CONgress yesterday!!!
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Yes, but the way Pelosi complained about it, I don’t think Trump shared such details with them. He said something to the effect of not wanting to reveal their sources and methods. He knows it would go straight to the Democrats’ Iranian friends.
On the news this morning, the WH said the military asked the president to hold releasing many details as strategically important.
I agree. I meant that they probably had a spotter to verify the convoy. I would think that the Reaper had to stand off for some distance so it didn’t get into the airport airspace.
Much media would hire a Judas and publish the location of Christ for soldiers looking to arrest Him.
Gee, maybe al-Reuters can get to the bottom of this *murder*. /s At the very least, they can out a bunch of anti-terrorist informants. Then maybe find success in their propaganda campaign for unfettered immigration and the imposition of shariah.
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