Posted on 01/03/2021 8:39:21 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
On Jan. 3, 2020, at 12.47 AM LT, a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, along with members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), including Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iraq’s PMF militias. The attack occurred just outside Baghdad International Airport, in Iraq, where Soleimani had just arrived (from Lebanon or Syria) to bring Iran’s response to a letter that Iraq had sent out on behalf of Saudi Arabia in order to ease tensions between the two countries in the region, according to Iraqi prime minister Adil Abdul Mahdi.
The air strike on the convoy made by a Toyota Avalon and Hyundai Starex caused 10 casualties.
The details of the drone strike that assassinated Soleimani have never been disclosed and, one year later, there are still different narratives of the whole operation. According to one version, a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone, took off from Kuwait and carried out the raid. This version has never been confirmed; quite the contrary actually, as the Kuwaiti Armed Forces denied it. According to another version, as many as three MQ-9 drones took off from al-Asad airbase, the second largest airbase in Iraq, flew in the sky of Baghdad for 20 hours and then returned to al-Asad after the air strike.
Serviced by two parallel paved runways and at least 33 hardened aircraft shelters along with secured weapons, Al-Asad Airbase was captured from Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces by the coalition Australian Special Air Service Regiment on April 16, 2003 by a special operations raid during the second Persian Gulf War. The airbase, along with Irbil, was targeted by more than a dozen ballistic missiles launched by Iran as part of of “Operation Martyr Soleimani”, a retaliatory strike for the assassination of the Iranian General.
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Every time a terrorist dies, an angel gets their wings.
This can’t be serious. This is the Onion, isn’t it?
That thing looks completely farcical, like it is satirizing that camel-hopper’s brains being splattered on the dashboard.
Personally, I love it.
Bwhahahahaha! One of their most revered artists put that together? They could have at least used a mechanized hand to make it appear he’s waving. RIH! Scumbag
Klantifa terrorists marched in America on his behalf last yearp
That’s one righteous suppository; didn’t know they made it in the “jumbo” size.
Did they put some snow chains on the tires?
Wow, can we get one here?!
SEPTEMBER 2015 : (IRGC GENERAL SOLEIMANI HAS BEEN VISITING RUSSIA ) The global anti-American alliance is now on full display in the Middle East, with Iran at the lynch point. The headlines have told us about the coordination of Iranian/Iraqi/Syrian/Russian/Chinese activities, and of course there is a division of labor. That was all worked out in recent weeks in a series of Iranian visits to Moscow (General Suleimani, who commands the Revolutionjary Guards’ foreign ops, twice traveled to Russia in open defiance of existing sanctions). Basically, the Russians are sending some crack troops and their favorite heavy weapons (tanks, big guns)
Lets make it more realistic. I got a match.
Hmmm... at the display do they play “It’s a Small World After All” continuously on loop?
I thought it would be a shoebox.
If that is real, I would bet somewhere some military strategists are thinking; “Yes sir. We could put another scud missile right there on that very memorial.”
Waving with a severed hand. And make sure the gaudy red ring is visible! Personally, I think this is awesome. Or hilarious. Or both! Burn in hell Soleimani.
Is he driving thru soap suds? Foamy surf? And it looks like he’s grinnng from ear to ear. This is a hoot.
Seems to speak to their glorification of martyrdom.
I like it. So tasteful. So esoteric. It depicts the plasticity and triangulation of reality with the surreal.
/pusillanimous snob art critic
MyPillow remnants under the suv.
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