Posted on 01/03/2021 8:39:21 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
On Jan. 3, 2020, at 12.47 AM LT, a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, along with members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), including Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iraq’s PMF militias. The attack occurred just outside Baghdad International Airport, in Iraq, where Soleimani had just arrived (from Lebanon or Syria) to bring Iran’s response to a letter that Iraq had sent out on behalf of Saudi Arabia in order to ease tensions between the two countries in the region, according to Iraqi prime minister Adil Abdul Mahdi.
The air strike on the convoy made by a Toyota Avalon and Hyundai Starex caused 10 casualties.
The details of the drone strike that assassinated Soleimani have never been disclosed and, one year later, there are still different narratives of the whole operation. According to one version, a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone, took off from Kuwait and carried out the raid. This version has never been confirmed; quite the contrary actually, as the Kuwaiti Armed Forces denied it. According to another version, as many as three MQ-9 drones took off from al-Asad airbase, the second largest airbase in Iraq, flew in the sky of Baghdad for 20 hours and then returned to al-Asad after the air strike.
Serviced by two parallel paved runways and at least 33 hardened aircraft shelters along with secured weapons, Al-Asad Airbase was captured from Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces by the coalition Australian Special Air Service Regiment on April 16, 2003 by a special operations raid during the second Persian Gulf War. The airbase, along with Irbil, was targeted by more than a dozen ballistic missiles launched by Iran as part of of “Operation Martyr Soleimani”, a retaliatory strike for the assassination of the Iranian General.
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Should have depicted the missile as a giant SALAMI!
Maybe Arab/Persian sensibilities differ, but this sounds like it could be a dig disguised as a tribute.
Looks like a homecoming float from Tehran High School...only the cotton balls fell out of the bottom.
*It won the “Death to the Great Satan” trophy, presented by the school’s art teacher and improvised explosives instructor, Mohammed al-Mohammed.
I was watching an interview with his daughter on RT today. She said he was a great guy and there is absolutely no difference between Trump and Biden.
Yeah, he look very happy in the car to hell. Sorry, Sol, no virgins or paradise for you. But you get fire, and lots of it!
“Wouldn’t You Really Rather Have A Buick?“
I suggest we hit the memorial with a drone.
Now, that’s a funny memorial!
Did they place brass poo in his pants?
If any of my students had handed in work like this, I would have handed it right back to them. I'd have to stifle myself as I did it, too.
Sabo? 😏
How about P.O.D, "BOOM! Here comes the BOOM! Ready or not... here come the boys from the South..."
Was there any old gals ululating? Passing out candy?
Not much noise from that one. Just enough to deploy the multiple RAZOR SHARP blades that sliced and diced everything in the car. The occupants were found in pieces. Probably didn’t feel much.
It sucks to die in a Honda
>>>I suggest we hit the memorial with a drone.<<<
Oh yeah! That would be so rich!
Did they play Patsy Cline’s “I Go To Pieces” at the unveiling?
If there were three Predators involved, then they might have played John Lee Hooker’s “Boom, Boom, Boom”.
I like it.
It’s good to remember him that way.
It can also serve as a great warning to any other terrorists who get any ideas.
For months, I’ve been toying with the idea that Kim Jong Il was titilated with the Trump promise that Kim will be accorded the same respect as General Assam Soleimani.
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