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BREAKING NEWS: Powerful leader of Iran's elite Quds Force military unit is killed in missile strike on Baghdad airport that left at least six others dead including top militiaman behind U.S. embassy attack
dailymail.co.uk ^

Posted on 01/02/2020 7:01:04 PM PST by dead

Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani, the powerful head of Iran's elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad International Airport, Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials officials said Friday.

The officials said the strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias in Iraq known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, which were responsible for the recent attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.

An official with the PMF blamed the U.S. military for the strike. 'The American and Israeli enemy is responsible for killing the mujahideen Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani,' said Ahmed al-Assadi, a PMF spokesman.

A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that strikes had been carried out against two targets linked to Iran in Baghdad on Thursday but declined to give any further details.

American officials have made no public comments on the strike yet. The Pentagon and the White House did not immediately respond to inquiries from DailyMail.com. Soon after news of the strike spread, President Donald Trump tweeted an image of an American flag, offering no remarks or explanation.

The audacious airport strike is a potential turning point in the Middle East as U.S.-Iran relations teeter on the brink, and is expected to draw severe retaliation from Iran and and its Shiite allies against Israel and American interests.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: braking; iran; iraq; qasemsoleimani; qudsforce; rop; searchworks; seebreakingnews; soleimani; too
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To: Spacetrucker

My ex lives his entire life in a defensive crouch. He will never stand up for himself on *anything*, big or small.

Hence his *ex* status.

I could never life my life that way, basing all of my decisions on *what if* scenarios. What if somebody gets mad and RETALIATES.

President Trump doesn’t live on defense either.


161 posted on 01/03/2020 3:00:04 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: kiryandil

Who cares about Fake News?

All that Sane America is absorbing is that President Trump took decisive and swift action to take out some evil Iranian terrorist.

Sounds good.


162 posted on 01/03/2020 3:03:49 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: rainee

They were there as tourists.


163 posted on 01/03/2020 3:06:49 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: kiryandil

He already is a registered democrat in Los Angeles.


164 posted on 01/03/2020 3:08:12 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: jazminerose

Sounds like you made a good decision (in re. EX). Fear can be a great motivator but when it becomes a life plan you’ve lost.


165 posted on 01/03/2020 3:32:41 AM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Bon mots
Vince Vance and the Valiants, Bomb Iran
166 posted on 01/03/2020 3:41:05 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: 75thOVI

We don’t know what tech the U.S. Military may have and we don’t WANT to know.


167 posted on 01/03/2020 3:48:15 AM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: GreyFriar

Yep - and sends those in Iraq that aid and abet Iran that their turf ain’t as safe as they might like it to be...
Bush spoke of “shock and awe” and gave us some sparklers - President Trump is capable of providing it...bigly.


168 posted on 01/03/2020 4:14:31 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: blam

Most people are unaware that he was responsible for the use of IEP’s, which were explosive devices that used a molten copper plug that killed many of our armed forces in Iraq.
IIRC, these IEP’s had the ability to resist the measures taken to prevent IED’s from being successful.

He needed to die. For this reason alone.


169 posted on 01/03/2020 5:19:03 AM PST by sgt_lau (Being tolerant to the most intolerant people on the planet is a losing proposition. Reject islam.)
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To: unlearner
 face 

with tears of joy face 

with tears of joy face 

with tears of joy
170 posted on 01/03/2020 7:26:43 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Gee just after negotiating with the Iraqis to build a new baby milk factory, this happens.


171 posted on 01/03/2020 7:29:12 AM PST by Shark24
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To: xkaydet65
I believe Quds is Islamic Arabic for Jerusalem..... The symbolic name for the Iranian group headed by the late Sulamania was to send the message the mullahs would conquer Jerusalem.

Now Sulamania will have to offer comments from a very hot new home with a cruel hoofed landlord. Wonder if he wore his asbestos briefs?

172 posted on 01/03/2020 8:03:04 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: dead

It’s always the head honcho but never some lowly dude who’s job is to sweep the back porch.


173 posted on 01/03/2020 8:23:47 AM PST by bgill
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To: bagster

This is starting to clarify things in our divided country. Like waiting for mud particles to settle down to the bottom in a jar.

Jihad Squad photo (expressions show dismay that a guy in a tuxedo holding a card said “And the beauty contest winner is: Nobody.”

One side: President Trump, his 63 million 2016 voters, Free Republic, and other God fearing good people who love this country and support the Constitution and our God given rights.

Other side: The other guys.


174 posted on 01/03/2020 8:28:06 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Spacetrucker

You’re right, of course. But, I must admit to being at least a “little” curious.


175 posted on 01/03/2020 10:47:44 AM PST by 75thOVI (Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.)
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To: 75thOVI

Of course we all are. The issue is actually trying to find out - if they maintain OPSEC properly, we wont until it’s on it’s way to obsolescence, as it should be. There’s still avionics items I dealt with back in the late 80’s/early 90’s that are somewhat out in the public sector that I will not discuss because they have never been declassified.


176 posted on 01/03/2020 11:13:04 AM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: gandalftb; dead; ransomnote; bagster
Good intel photo:

Warning: Graphic photo!

The rest of him is visible in the video -- lying on that red prayer rug...

177 posted on 01/03/2020 12:59:38 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's alias | "Islam": Allah's useful idiots | Brennan & 0b0z0: Islam's useful idiots)
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To: gandalftb; dead; ransomnote; bagster
Good intel photo:

Warning: Graphic photo!

The rest of him is visible in the video -- lying on that red prayer rug...</SARCASM>  '-}

TXnMA  
  

178 posted on 01/03/2020 1:03:51 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's alias | "Islam": Allah's useful idiots | Brennan & 0b0z0: Islam's useful idiots)
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To: Spacetrucker
I speak your language. I was on a submarine myself. Deeper than 400ft and faster than 20 knots. Here endeth the lesson.
179 posted on 01/03/2020 2:01:02 PM PST by 75thOVI (Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.)
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To: 75thOVI

Hehehe. My brother worked on a sub tender back in the day, right out of boot camp he took me on a tour - the jarhead security on ship thought I was coming on station to join up with them lol. Honestly didnt get to see much of the ship, as you would suspect.


180 posted on 01/03/2020 2:10:24 PM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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