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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Keep stacking them up, Mr President...
“Severe retaliation”??? The medieval terrorists may soon understand what that really means.
The Democrap Media can kiss all our Conservative Patriot posteriors.
Yeah and now they regret it. LOL
Thank God that we have a POTUS whose balls are intact.
Two senior members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah are reported to be killed. One may be Mohammad Al-Kothrani.
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The Iranians had flown to Damascus to pick them up. Then off to Baghdad on a Cham Wings flight.
I’m solemn. I’m sober. I’m taking no joy in this.
Does Khamenei want to find out what Trump's hole cards are?
Iran deal, Trump style.
I suppose rocket man is taking notes.
Whoops.
There goes all of Soleimani's New Year's resolutions, down the drain...
It's okay. I got enough for bofus.
Hey watch it about 72 year olds, I am 79 and still look beautiful LOL
I love a man with the balls to do something. Sick of all these pussy men.
Yeah, I guess Soleimani got a vase after all.
Ayatollah Khamenei can keep him in it...
Legit question...this was one of the top ten Iran military guys and he had zero necessity to be in Iraq. He could have easily made phonecalls safely from Iran impress his ‘friends’ in Baghdad.
I would take some guess that there was some planned effort about to start up in the next week, and he was part of the ‘sales-team’ to ensure things were bought by the Iraqi players in this scheme.
The Iraqis are picking them up, now. What they can find, anyway.
They must have take a wrong turn at Albuquerque...
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