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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I love this president.
They won’t be getting their security deposit back from the car rental company.
You’ll get that too.
Everything but that this was a killer of Americans.
That’s not important.
There.
Fixed it.
Why can't our #FakeNews outlets in US PropagandaLand start asking the right questions?
On 24 January 2011, Soleimani was promoted to Major General by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.[28][34] Khamenei is described as having a close relationship with him, helping him financially and has called Soleimani a "living martyr".
Soleimani has been described as "the single most powerful operative in the Middle East today" and the principal military strategist and tactician in Iran's effort to combat Western influence and promote the expansion of Shiite and Iranian influence throughout the Middle East.[25] In Iraq, as the commander of the Quds force, he is believed to have strongly influenced the organization of the Iraqi government, notably supporting the election of previous Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki.
Soleimani has even been described as being "Iran’s very own Erwin Rommel".
According to some sources, Soleimani is the principal leader and architect of the military wing of the Lebanese Shia party Hezbollah since his appointment as Quds commander in 1998.[25]
From Wikipedia - Qasem Soleimani
Get some!
Nice shooting fellas! Keep stackin’ ‘em up!
Is the DNC HQ flag at half mast?
I’m glad this was done
It’s over due.
We are basically at war with Iran now but we always were.
I hope the FR nervous nellies of Mideast war don’t get weak here.
Well, some people did something.
the real war is on the border, not in Iraq, etc
waiting for the drone strikes on the cartels....
Whoops, I cr@pped my turban!!!
You come from Iran to stir up shit in Iraq against our embassy?
Suck on a Hellfire you dumbass.
Didn’t this guy die in 2015? He hasn’t been heard seen since then. Confused.
I hope he enjoys his one, 72 year old virgin.
It was Allah’s will. Allah wanted him dead and he is.
He has ceased to be, he is an ex-terrorist.
Their response was to big mullah's challenge yesterday and was of the non-verbal variety.
Kind of blows Iran’s claim out of the water, that they weren’t involved in the embassy attack.
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