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Al Qods Brigades chief Gen. Soleimani seriously injured in Iraq by ISIS suicide squad
DEBKAfile ^ | January 14, 2015, 1:06 PM (IDT)

Posted on 01/14/2015 1:11:49 PM PST by Dave346

Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander-in-chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ elite Al Qods Brigades, and senior officer of Iranian forces in Iraq, was seriously injured in a targeted attack by an ISIS suicide squad, debkafile reports from military and intelligence sources in the Gulf.

The attack took place near Samarra in central Iraq, after agents of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant managed to infiltrate his command staff and get close enough to their target before blowing themselves up. The date of the assassination attempt has not been revealed.

Soleimani, 58, who is a member of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s closest circle and a pivotal figure in Iranian military and intelligence, was rushed to hospital in Tehran.

In an exclusive report Tuesday, Jan. 13, debkafile first revealed that ISIS had adopted a new tactic of systematically targeting top officers fighting them in Iraq, especially the Iranians, in order to sow confusion and panic among the men under their command.

Soleimani won the epithet in the West as Iran’s Shadow Commander for pulling the strings of his country’s clandestine espionage and terrorist operations outside its borders. For nine years, he has masterminded Iran’s military and political involvement in three conflicts, starting with the Hizballah-Israel war of 2006, the nearly four years of Syria’s bloody conflict and the war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Gen. Soleimani it was who laid down the strategy Iran adopted in all these military interventions.

His latest project was a major effort to weld all of Iraq’s Shiite militias into a single popular army, after coming to the conclusion that the national Iraqi army was past rebuilding as a regular military fit for combat operations after its elite division fell apart in its first confrontation with ISIS. The US had invested $25 billion in rebuilding the Iraqi army.

Tuesday, debkafile reported that ISIS had managed to wipe out the forward command group of an Al Qods Brigades commando force early Monday, Jan. 12, killing its commander, Gen. Mehdi Norouzi. His chief is now in bad shape after a jihadist attack using the same modus operandi.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bomb; iran; isil; isis; israel; lebanon; nuclear; qassemsoleimani; syria; terror; war; waronterror
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1 posted on 01/14/2015 1:11:49 PM PST by Dave346
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To: Dave346

This is more like it.

Get them to fight themselves.


2 posted on 01/14/2015 1:14:28 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Dave346

has debkafile ever been right about anything?


3 posted on 01/14/2015 1:16:27 PM PST by balch3
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To: Dave346

Nothing popped up on a quick google search.

Debka has a reputation of false positives - calling like 11 of the last three significant developments in the Mid East.

That is one guy who really is worth shooting though...


4 posted on 01/14/2015 1:19:54 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

I’m goin’ to Disneyworld! :’)


5 posted on 01/14/2015 1:21:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Dave346

the Iranians , and indeed all those in this fight , should adopt a similar tactic ; to directly target any and all ISIS command and control individuals that we can personally kill .

There should be zero ROE’s in attacking ISIS . No worries or concerns about collateral damages . Go for the throat , fire & brimstone . Hit their leadership until none remain . Including those that recruit or in any way facilitate in any other countries . No shelter , no protections . All are targets .


6 posted on 01/14/2015 1:24:25 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

And no worries about collateral damage. Kill them all and the horse they rode in on.


7 posted on 01/14/2015 1:30:44 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and Silver are Real Money, Accept No Substitutes)
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To: Dave346

I still wanna know what happened to the 100,000 CHICOM soldiers DEBKA said were waiting for us in Afghanistan back in 2001.


8 posted on 01/14/2015 1:31:18 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

I’m tellin ya ....America needs to be led by warriors , not by lawyers . It’s time


9 posted on 01/14/2015 1:33:25 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

I’m with you buddy, but its 1938 all over again. America won’t move until there is a new president and another Pearl Harbor. 2017=1941.


10 posted on 01/14/2015 1:36:37 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and Silver are Real Money, Accept No Substitutes)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Already was (2001). Didn’t move then, won’t move now.


11 posted on 01/14/2015 1:43:21 PM PST by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

America can’t wait . We’re going to get nuked . And who will then accept the blame for that ? Which cities will we mourn ( and all the surrounding areas ) while the same idiots ,whom think they hold power , try and tell us that “ these people who did this are not really muslims ! they corrupt the true faith , etc etc etc “ .....


12 posted on 01/14/2015 1:56:40 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: LeoWindhorse

Your fellow citizen elected a moslem for president, twice. I don’t know what else to say.


13 posted on 01/14/2015 2:19:13 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and Silver are Real Money, Accept No Substitutes)
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To: SpinnerWebb
2001 resulted in two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush had the right idea but was too soft on the moslems. The dems and the traitorous media turned the public against the war and against Bush. You cannot win a war without public support.

The media and politically correctness have drummed all the wrong conclusions into the public. They foisted Obama on the nation as the great healer, the great peacemaker. He was elected TWICE.

Unless something really big happens, and I mean really big, this will go on until at least 2017. May God help us.

14 posted on 01/14/2015 2:37:13 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and Silver are Real Money, Accept No Substitutes)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

You’re just trying to be hurtful.


15 posted on 01/14/2015 2:39:14 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Dave346

Sounds like a good day all around.


16 posted on 01/14/2015 2:46:52 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Mr. Lucky

Nope. I still can’t believe he was elected, TWICE.


17 posted on 01/14/2015 3:18:37 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and Silver are Real Money, Accept No Substitutes)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

...and you don’t think that’s hurtful?


18 posted on 01/14/2015 3:28:20 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Dave346

“”ISIS suicide squad””

Good - I hope they need at least 30-40 for a suicide squad...no measly couple of freaks.


19 posted on 01/14/2015 4:23:50 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Former Proud Canadian

He is not my President


20 posted on 01/14/2015 4:31:53 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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