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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well he should have been a penis with face, aka DH, and had a little boy with Him and mad mo to have something to do..yea leaders..they need to go before or if Trump leaves, hit Iran hard..tell the world f off, with us or against us and Israel, the right position for end times.
flaming puke, yea it fits..
love it, and have it sprinkle bacon bits too..
Paint an American flag on the missile, and the memorial will be perfect.
I’d like to see a memorial like this for Yassir Arafart.
All they need is some Chuck Berry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aZ6v679JtQ
That’s kinda what I was thinking. This seems like something you’d laugh at, not a serious memorial. Make something like this for al-Sadr and Chemical Ali.
Really, it’s more appropriate for us to have this memorial.
Maybe that’s the full warhead. Pig blood...
LOL
Now that’s a culture that celebrates death...
Lol
Yes.
Qasem says: “Drive safely this holiday weekend!”
so instead of a little bell ringing, it the really big boom of a scud missle exploding
so instead of a little bell ringing, it the really big boom of a scud missile exploding
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