Posted on 01/04/2020 10:39:46 AM PST by jazusamo
As the funeral for Qasem Soleimani began Saturday, two blasts were heard throughout Baghdad. It turns out that a rocket attack took place on the heavily fortified Green Zone which houses the United States embassy, The Jerusalem Post reported.
According to Reuters , the Iraqi military revealed that the rockets also fell in the city's Jadriya neighborhood and the Balad air base, which houses American troops.
Several rockets targeting Celebration Square and the Jadriya area in Baghdad, and the Balad air base in Salahuddin province, with no loss of life. Further details to come, the Iraqi military said in a statement.
#BREAKING
Reports indicate missile/rocket landing in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, inside the U.S. Embassy vicinity.
Reuters witness says major explosion heard.
The embassy on Friday urged all Americans to leave Iraq immediately
Due to heightened tensions in Iraq and the region, the U.S. Embassy urges American citizens to heed the January 2020 Travel Advisory and depart Iraq immediately. U.S. citizens should depart via airline while possible, and failing that, to other countries via land, it said in a statement.
This is a breaking news story. As more information comes in this post will be updated.
Why the hell don’t we have an Iron Dome system in place there?
A sweep with a A-10 warthog might clean the streets and dampen the celebration.
Iran does not want this conflict. We do not want to hurt Iranian civilians, only crush the mullahs.
If we can do enough to weaken the government the civilians may free themselves after all these years of tyranny.
To see that happen in my lifetime, going from the horrific revolution there to freedom once again would be glorious.
If only Obama had given them more money, this wouldn't have happened.
That’s a good question.
Killing that asswipe will probably stall any new plans for the forseeable future.
Cool, now we know where their rockets are kept. Thanks Iran.
The problem with Iran is that the people are not really the regime. It would be like fighting hitler by bombing the concentration camps.
Fortunately, we have the tech that allows us to do this sort of thing on an ongoing basis.
Yes, The Great O was certainly on the right track.
Yes! Amen.
They mess with THE MAN and he will do it up right for them...
I grew up with nothing to carry me in the hard places. Mother died when I was 4. father In the war and my grandmother raised me... a good woman. but I had no family money to hold weight. I had no dad go to bat for me. I was nobody.. but I had a lot of fight...held in tow... TOday I have a son who is an attorney. do you know that ONE letter from an attorney will get just about everyone off a back... and especially when he is the son and they know it’s not costing me a dime.
I say all that to reiterate a fight is needed to set things straight many times...and Trump is my favorite fighter. Taking the lumps go only so far in a fighter’s mind...
There comes a time....and don’t touch my President!
Part of me wonders if getting him was the equivalent of gettin Osama Bin Laden a couple of weeks before 9/11. And this is what they are left with.
“The funeral would be a good opportunity to identify and pick out targets.”
Yup. They do that in Chicago all the time. /s (kinda)
I imagine most of us are thinking the very same thing.
For us peon’s only time will give us the answer.
It was almost on the brink of happening...when Obama stopped it by reinforcing the mullahs and refusing to even acknowledge the Iranian people. Suleimani was in charge of organizing the killings, torture and imprisonment of the protestors.
Anybody seen John Kerry? is he in Iran consulting with the Mullahs?
if we take out their 3 refineries we have to take out a lot more
they know if they lose the refineries they have nothing else left to lose, so we gotta take out way more.
This should be in Breaking News!
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