Posted on 01/11/2020 9:14:18 PM PST by be-baw
A high-ranking pro-Iranian militia commander was fatally shot in Iraq Saturday night, according to a Daily Mail report citing local media.
Taleb Abbas Ali al-Saedi, a top leader of the Popular Mobilization Forces, was killed in Karbala, a city in central Iraq, by “unidentified gunmen,” the outlet reported.
Popular Mobilization Forces is an umbrella organization of about 40 paramilitary groups mostly associated with Iran-backed Shiite militias. The organization is one of the major forces fighting ISIS in Iraq and alongside troops in Syria loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
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The Mullahs are purging Soleimani’s organization because he was getting to powerful for their tastes.
Sounds like it’s time for this Iranian scum to go home.
Open season.
“Kind of strange. Who took him out, I wonder?”
Delta would be a good guess.
Let them kill each other off.
Save us from doing it.
The winning never gets old.
Hard to identify a sniper who shoots from a long distance away.
Nothing makes my hair stand up more than when I hear the thud of the bullet hitting near me and then the bang a few seconds later. (But at least I lived to hear it!!)
“A high-ranking pro-Iranian militia commander was fatally shot in Iraq Saturday night”
It said he was shot at nighttime, so I doubt it was a long range sniper.
Gonna run out of virgins...
Somebody is taking out the trash.
Voting Islamic style. I imagine the Iraqui dont want to be run by the Iranians.
My bet—its the Russians, making changes the old fashioned way. Putin owes Trump a few favors. Iran didn’t do Syria and Russia many favors in the Civil War. I read they ticked off Putin—its never healthy to tick off Putin.
Was he in a gun free zone?..../s
How about a grazing bullet zipping past your ear...
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