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Iraqi TV: Iranian military commander General Soleimani killed in Baghdad strike
CNBC ^ | 01/02/2020

Posted on 01/02/2020 5:46:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Iraqi TV and three Iraqi officials said Friday that Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, has been killed in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport.

The officials said the strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces.

Their deaths are a potential turning point in the Middle East and are expected to draw severe retaliation from Iran and the forces it backs in the Middle East against Israel and American interests.

The PMF blamed the United States for an attack at Baghdad International Airport Friday.

There was no immediate comment from the U.S. or Iran.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baghdad; generalsoleimani; iran; iraq
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1 posted on 01/02/2020 5:46:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Trump's Benghazi. LoL.

Sandals everywhere.

2 posted on 01/02/2020 5:47:11 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: SeekAndFind

If I weren’t sick with bronchitis, I’d be out celebrating like the muslims celebrated after 9/11.


3 posted on 01/02/2020 5:48:37 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow!

Knock knock!


4 posted on 01/02/2020 5:48:43 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Epstein didn't kill himself.)
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To: Bon mots

This is how we should respond to anyone who threatens us.

Kill them in job lots.

L


5 posted on 01/02/2020 5:48:57 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: SeekAndFind

WHO IS GENERAL SOLEIMANI?

SOURCE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qasem_Soleimani

Qasem Soleimani (11 March 1957 – 3 January 2020) was an Iranian Major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and since 1998 commander of its Quds Force—a division primarily responsible for extraterritorial military and clandestine operations.

Soleimani hailed from a humble background. He began his military career since the beginning of the Iran–Iraq War of the 1980s, during which he commanded the 41st Division. He was later involved in extraterritorial operations, providing military assistance to anti-Saddam Shia and Kurdish groups in Iraq, and later Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Palestinian territories.

In 2012, Soleimani helped bolster the Syrian government, a key Iranian ally, during the Syrian Civil War. Soleimani also assisted in the command of combined Iraqi government and Shia militia forces that advanced against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in 2014–2015.


6 posted on 01/02/2020 5:49:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Bon mots

This is how an American President should respond.

Democrats would not do this.


7 posted on 01/02/2020 5:51:06 PM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: SeekAndFind
Drone strike. LoL.


8 posted on 01/02/2020 5:51:51 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: SeekAndFind

What’s some Iranian general doing in Iran if not stirring up trouble?


9 posted on 01/02/2020 5:52:24 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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This is how an American President should respond. Democrats would not do this.

_______________

YEP


10 posted on 01/02/2020 5:52:28 PM PST by conservativepoet
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Instead they would ask them over for tea and oreos. Traitors.


11 posted on 01/02/2020 5:52:41 PM PST by madison10
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To: SeekAndFind

This SOB is the Big One.

Hellooooooo Tehran!

CAN YOU FING HEAR ME NOW?

- PDJT


12 posted on 01/02/2020 5:52:46 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Epstein didn't kill himself.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Payback.

Or as Mrs. Castlebrew observed, a ‘quid pro quo’.


13 posted on 01/02/2020 5:52:47 PM PST by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t screw around with Trump.

Did you hear that, traitorous Dems?


14 posted on 01/02/2020 5:53:04 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: SeekAndFind

lots of info here
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3805110/posts?q=1&;page=1


15 posted on 01/02/2020 5:53:47 PM PST by janetjanet998
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To: Texas resident

Exactly. Here’s how the anti-American commies think.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142414065


16 posted on 01/02/2020 5:53:54 PM PST by Levy78
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To: conservativepoet

Dems would give them $150 billion in small unmarked bills shipped in the middle of the night.


17 posted on 01/02/2020 5:53:59 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Blood of Tyrants

RE: What’s some Iranian general doing in Iran if not stirring up trouble?

He is listed by the United States as a known terrorist, which forbids U.S. citizens from doing business with him.

The list, published in the EU’s Official Journal on 24 June 2011, also includes a Syrian property firm, an investment fund and two other enterprises accused of funding Assad’s government. The list also includes Mohammad Ali Jafari and Hossein Taeb.


18 posted on 01/02/2020 5:54:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
THIS IS HOW HE LOOKS LIKE...


19 posted on 01/02/2020 5:55:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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IRAN’S AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI TAUNTS DONALD TRUMP OVER IRAQ EMBASSY VIOLENCE: ‘YOU CAN’T DO ANYTHING’.


20 posted on 01/02/2020 5:56:20 PM PST by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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