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Memorial for Qassem Soleimani Erected in Lebanon Depicts The Moment His SUV Was Hit By A Drone Missile
The Aviationist ^ | Jan. 2, 2021 | David Cenciotti

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: art; dumbass; lebanon; memorial; scumbag; soleimani; suleimani; terrorist
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Couldn't happen to a better scumbag:


1 posted on 01/03/2021 8:39:21 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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Every time a terrorist dies, an angel gets their wings.


2 posted on 01/03/2021 8:39:48 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

This can’t be serious. This is the Onion, isn’t it?

That thing looks completely farcical, like it is satirizing that camel-hopper’s brains being splattered on the dashboard.

Personally, I love it.


3 posted on 01/03/2021 8:42:16 PM PST by mquinn (Obama's supporters: a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Bwhahahahaha! One of their most revered artists put that together? They could have at least used a mechanized hand to make it appear he’s waving. RIH! Scumbag


4 posted on 01/03/2021 8:43:19 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Klantifa terrorists marched in America on his behalf last yearp


5 posted on 01/03/2021 8:44:56 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

That’s one righteous suppository; didn’t know they made it in the “jumbo” size.


6 posted on 01/03/2021 8:45:05 PM PST by Stosh
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To: mquinn

Did they put some snow chains on the tires?


7 posted on 01/03/2021 8:45:42 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Wow, can we get one here?!


8 posted on 01/03/2021 8:48:36 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

SEPTEMBER 2015 : (IRGC GENERAL SOLEIMANI HAS BEEN VISITING RUSSIA ) The global anti-American alliance is now on full display in the Middle East, with Iran at the lynch point. The headlines have told us about the coordination of Iranian/Iraqi/Syrian/Russian/Chinese activities, and of course there is a division of labor. That was all worked out in recent weeks in a series of Iranian visits to Moscow (General Suleimani, who commands the Revolutionjary Guards’ foreign ops, twice traveled to Russia in open defiance of existing sanctions). Basically, the Russians are sending some crack troops and their favorite heavy weapons (tanks, big guns)


9 posted on 01/03/2021 8:49:19 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Lets make it more realistic. I got a match.


10 posted on 01/03/2021 8:49:35 PM PST by sauropod (Cui bono? I will not comply.)
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B O O M
11 posted on 01/03/2021 8:49:37 PM PST by BigEdLB (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Hmmm... at the display do they play “It’s a Small World After All” continuously on loop?


13 posted on 01/03/2021 8:50:24 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

I thought it would be a shoebox.


14 posted on 01/03/2021 8:50:32 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

If that is real, I would bet somewhere some military strategists are thinking; “Yes sir. We could put another scud missile right there on that very memorial.”


15 posted on 01/03/2021 8:52:29 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve. DJT 11-07-20)
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Bwhahahahaha! One of their most revered artists put that together? They could have at least used a mechanized hand to make it appear he’s waving. RIH! Scumbag

Waving with a severed hand. And make sure the gaudy red ring is visible! Personally, I think this is awesome. Or hilarious. Or both! Burn in hell Soleimani.

16 posted on 01/03/2021 8:52:32 PM PST by ETCM
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Is he driving thru soap suds? Foamy surf? And it looks like he’s grinnng from ear to ear. This is a hoot.


17 posted on 01/03/2021 8:52:35 PM PST by Blurb2350
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Seems to speak to their glorification of martyrdom.


18 posted on 01/03/2021 8:54:54 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

I like it. So tasteful. So esoteric. It depicts the plasticity and triangulation of reality with the surreal.

/pusillanimous snob art critic


19 posted on 01/03/2021 8:56:46 PM PST by DeFault User
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MyPillow remnants under the suv.


20 posted on 01/03/2021 8:57:02 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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