Drone strike in Baghdad kills high-ranking militia commander, officials say

ABC News ^ | Feb 7, 2024 | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and AAMER MADHANI

[McGruff]

A U.S. drone strike hit a car in the Iraqi capital Wednesday night, killing three members of the powerful Kataib Hezbollah militia, including a high-ranking commander, officials said.

The strike came on a main thoroughfare in the Mashtal neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. A crowd gathered as emergency response teams picked through the wreckage.

A U.S. official familiar with the matter said that a senior Kataib Hezbollah commander was targeted in a U.S. strike on Wednesday in Iraq. The official was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity.

Two officials with Iran-backed militias in Iraq said that one of the three killed was Wissam Mohammed “Abu Bakr” al-Saadi, the commander in charge of Kataib Hezbollah’s operations in Syria.

[JayGalt]

A leavening of good news.

[V_TWIN]

Must be an election year

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

ha

[wildcard_redneck]

In spite of all of the dead and wounded Americans and a over $1 trillion of taxpayer dollars we are still having to drone terrorists in the streets of Baghdad. Just one more proof point that the Military Industrial Complex doesn’t want to win any wars, they just want continual war.

We should have green-glassed Baghdad and walked away in 1991.

[ComputerGuy]

Have we hit Iran yet?

[dblshot]

There probably was intelligence assets on the ground to ID the car.

[NWFree]

Probably one of those ‘ufo’s’ floating around bopped him

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Did we use the “Flying Ginsu” Hellfire?

[pierrem15]

It wasn't the Military Industrial Complex that decided on pussyfooting around with terrorists and failing to achieve victory.

That would be our politicians who prefer to virtue signal about their good intentions, like Bush's catch & release policy on Iraqi terrorists.

[slapshot]

Peak a boomm Hellfire kills you...

[himno hero]

Trump did it again!!!!

[Allegra]

Muqtada al Sadr the scumbag is sad.

[whatexit]

And we believe this....why?

[hardspunned]

Pray for the 57,000 sitting ducks, er, US military personnel within range of Iranian missiles in the area.

[jjotto]

Those blade Hellfires do limited damage. Photos kinda look the way a Tesla does after immolation.

[Lurker]

I hope they used the Flying Ginsu on him.

L

[texanyankee]

Cue up mass demonstrations in Bagdad demanding the US withdraw from Iraq.

[Seruzawa]

Remind me what all that Desert storm shyt and everything else in Iraq was for?

[Justa]

“Have we hit Iran yet?”

So far just Iranians outside Iran.

Whack-A-Mole v.3 - Iran