Posted on 03/13/2020 7:00:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The strikes come one day after the US assessed an Iranian-backed group was responsible for a rocket attack on a base where coalition forces are located, killing two American service members and one British service member.
The Defense Department on Friday identified the two US service members killed in the attack as Army Specialist Juan Miguel Mendez Covarrubias, 27, of Hanford, California and Air Force Staff Sgt. Marshal D. Roberts, 28, of Owasso, Oklahoma. The UK Ministry of Defense had earlier identified the slain UK service member as Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon.
The UK government expressed support for the US airstrikes, with the UK's Defense Secretary Ben Wallace saying "We support the right of the United States to defend themselves, as they have done tonight."
A US defense official told CNN that the strikes were carried out by manned fighter aircraft and targeted five weapons storage facilities.
In a written statement, the Defense Department stated the strike was aimed at harming the ability of Kata'ib Hezbollah, an Iranian-sponsored Shia militia group, to conduct future strikes against American troops. The weapons storage facilities included areas where weapons used to attack American and coalition troops were stored.
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The Jerusalem Post said we may have killed an IRGC general who was in a command and control center at the time of the strike.
Interesting
Good opportunity, The Iranians have been devastated by this flu because there were daily flights into China (in the Wuhan area) by major figures in their government, which was obviously working with the Chinese to develop a biowarfare agent. Guess it backfired. Hit ‘em while they’re down.
Well look at that another WIN
And the Enemedia would have been singing the president's praises all day and all night.
Wouldn't be any troops to strike if we left.
The muzzies in the ME have been fighting each other for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Various "good guys" have tried to stop them over the years. Nobody has been successful.
What's the saying about idiocy? Something about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?
FAIL.
“You don’t get to shoot at our bases and kill and wound Americans and get away with it,” Esper said.”
The Rats aren’t gonna like their allies attacked. Too bad.
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