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Two rockets fall inside Iraqi air base housing U.S. troops: security sources
Reuters ^ | JANUARY 4, 2020, 9:29 AM | Reuters Staff

Posted on 01/04/2020 9:54:53 AM PST by keat

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To: Bayard

“Time to take out all their military assets it seems we’re as hot in a war with Iran as it can be.”

A 100 man special ops team that is heavily equipped and mobile which can roam the country and kill every Iranian terrorist they find.


21 posted on 01/04/2020 10:11:46 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven.)
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To: keat

As if anyone has any idea who launched them. Could be one of 100 different factions for any number of reasons.

GTFO of the ME.


22 posted on 01/04/2020 10:13:23 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: existentially_kuffer

I’m sure the Puzzle Palace has remedy.

That new target is locked in and ready to receive a one way gift.


23 posted on 01/04/2020 10:14:11 AM PST by Grampa Dave (If Nanzi peeee-losi, Schiffless, Mad Maxine and Chuckie were in charge, they would be droning us.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

EQ-so tell us: How do u know?


24 posted on 01/04/2020 10:15:21 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Seruzawa

Yep kick Butt or bring our Men Home


25 posted on 01/04/2020 10:16:20 AM PST by easternsky
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To: Grampa Dave

Around 2007 we used to get a lot of those from the beds of Toyota trucks...


26 posted on 01/04/2020 10:17:24 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Trump didnÂ’t want an AG, he wanted a consigliere.)
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To: nuconvert

“Katyusha rockets”

1942, Soviet technology.

Falling out of the sky is about all they do.

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27 posted on 01/04/2020 10:19:02 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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28 posted on 01/04/2020 10:21:22 AM PST by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: keat

My son was stationed on Balaad AFB 10 years ago, he said that at that time there were about 30 rocket and/or mortar attacks per day. But, since Balaad is the biggest base over there with a very wide “dead zone” around it, most of the rockets and mortars landed in the “dead zone” and caused almost no damage or casualties.


29 posted on 01/04/2020 10:22:05 AM PST by euram
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To: goldstategop

This attack might have came from freelancers. The more organized stuff might come later.


30 posted on 01/04/2020 10:26:14 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: keat
Whelp, 2 Katyas with a 4-mile max range, wildly inaccurate as they are (I had 42 of them fired at me in Afghanistan), this is the cheapest response in a short period of time as they can muster.

The deadlier attacks will come against convoys from the embassy to the airport by IEDs. Maybe a SA-7 or similar platform fired at a US helicopter.

Don't forget bottom influence mines passively set to the acoustic signature of a US big deck carrier that will "find" their way at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. That will be the haymaker.

31 posted on 01/04/2020 10:27:42 AM PST by Salvavida
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To: nuconvert

So it starts....


32 posted on 01/04/2020 10:28:38 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Leaning Right

First shots in the Iran-America War of 2020. It will not be a long war.


33 posted on 01/04/2020 10:31:09 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Seruzawa

> As if anyone has any idea who launched them. Could be one of 100 different factions for any number of reasons. <

Good point. Heck, it could have even been agents of Saudi Arabia. Because if I were a Saudi, I would love to see the US pummel Iran. So I might be tempted to push the US a little in that direction.


34 posted on 01/04/2020 10:32:57 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: keat

Our next target should be the mullahs in Iran so the the people can rise up.

In fact our repeated message should be that if they rise up we would help them.


35 posted on 01/04/2020 10:33:52 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Salvavida

If Iran responds it will probably not be in Iraq.


36 posted on 01/04/2020 10:37:45 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“EQ-so tell us: How do u know?”

That’s my proposal.


37 posted on 01/04/2020 10:37:51 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven.)
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To: keat

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3805526/posts


38 posted on 01/04/2020 10:46:26 AM PST by HollyB
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To: keat
Just because no one was injured doesn't mean that we can't strike back and kill a few dozen ragheads.
39 posted on 01/04/2020 10:46:42 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“A 100 man special ops team that is heavily equipped and mobile which can roam the country and kill every Iranian terrorist they find.”

Kinda like the “Desert Rats”?


40 posted on 01/04/2020 10:47:10 AM PST by ryderann
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