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  • #16
    Game changer

    WOW.



    Baghdad rocket attack kills Iranian military leaders including Gen. Qassim Soleimani, reports say

    At least three rockets were fired at Baghdad International Airport Friday killing at least seven people, including Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force, according to multiple reports early Friday.

    Soleimani is the military mastermind whom Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had deemed equally as dangerous as Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In October, Baghdadi killed himself during a U.S. raid on a compound in northwest Syria, seven months after the so-called ISIS "caliphate" crumbled as the terrorist group lost its final swath of Syrian territory in March.

    In April 2019, the State Department announced Iran was responsible for killing 608 U.S. troops during the Iraq War. Soleimani was the head of the Iranian and Iranian-backed forces carrying out those operations killing American troops. According to the State Department, 17 percent of all deaths of U.S. personnel in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 were orchestrated by Soleimani.

    As recent as 2015, a travel ban and United Nations Security Council resolutions had barred Soleimani from leaving Iran.

    The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, three Iraqi officials told The Associated Press. Iraqi TV reported the deaths as well. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. government or Iran. However, hours after the attack was announced, President Trump tweeted a simple image of the American flag.

    Soleimani was the long-running leader of the elite intelligence wing called Quds Force – which itself has been a designated terror group since 2007, and is estimated to be 20,000 strong. Considered one of the most powerful men in Iran, he routinely was referred to as its “shadow commander” or “spymaster.” "Soleimani is our leader" had been photographed spray-painted on windows by Iran-backed militiamen at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

    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.

    An official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said al-Muhandis had arrived to the airport in a convoy to receive Soleimani whose plane had arrived from either Lebanon or Syria. The airstrike occurred as soon as he descended from the plane to be greeted by al-Muhandis and his companions, killing them all.

    As recent as 2015, a travel ban and United Nations Security Council resolutions had barred Soleimani from leaving Iran.

    A senior politician said Soleimani's body was identified by the ring he wore.

    The PMF blamed the United States for the attack. Local reporters had suggested that pro-Iran military leaders may have been targeted, but officials have not yet confirmed all of the dead and who may have been behind the attack. An official with PMF told The Associated Press one of the victims was its airport protocol officer, identifying him as Mohammed Reda.

    Iraq’s Security Media Cell, which released information regarding Iraqi security, said the three Katyusha rockets landed near the cargo hall.

    Iraqi security also said two cars were on fire.

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    • #17
      Awesome! F Soleimani!
      Ford
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      VAG

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      • #18
        That's the general who was often shown in photo-ops that looked like Sean Connery. I guess he was shown so much since he wasn't one of the always bitter-looking old mullahs. Usually he was referred to in the media as the leader of ran's "elite" Quds Forces...guess those forces aren't so elite after all if they can't protect their own boss.

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        • #19
          It’s interesting how we had eyes on these guys and they were dumb enough to convoy to the airport all together. Wonder who’s next?

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          • #20
            Originally posted by svauto-erotic855 View Post
            Crazy people need a boot on their neck to keep them in line.
            That's the easy explanation, and sometimes it's true. Sometimes. But you still have to ask, what made them crazy? They seemed perfectly happy under ol sadaam.
            WH

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Gasser64 View Post
              That's the easy explanation, and sometimes it's true. Sometimes. But you still have to ask, what made them crazy? They seemed perfectly happy under ol sadaam.
              Yes, they were perfectly happy because he kept a boot on their throat.
              Whos your Daddy?

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              • #22
                Originally posted by kingjason View Post
                Yes, they were perfectly happy because he kept a boot on their throat.
                So by god they needed our invading army, right? I'm with Ron Paul on this one. We never should've been there.
                WH

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                • #23
                  It's crazy that air strike was at BIAP. I was living there summer of 2017. There was an enormous American presence there still. I wonder what went down
                  DE OPPRESSO LIBER

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by HarrisonTX View Post
                    It's crazy that air strike was at BIAP. I was living there summer of 2017. There was an enormous American presence there still. I wonder what went down
                    3 rockets.
                    "If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Baron Von Crowder View Post
                      3 rockets.
                      Truth, and very funny.
                      Ronald Reagan:"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

                      Homer: "Bart...there's 2 things I know about women. Never give them nicknames like "jumbo" or "boxcar" and always keep receipts...it makes you look like a business man."

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Gasser64 View Post
                        That's the easy explanation, and sometimes it's true. Sometimes. But you still have to ask, what made them crazy? They seemed perfectly happy under ol sadaam.
                        They were terrified under Ol Sadaam, he would kill someone, their entire family, and everyone they've ever met in their entire life if they stepped out of line.

                        Part of why those people are crazy is because they have been marrying their first cousins for the past 1600 years, the inbreeding has resulted in some unusual behavior. Throw a fucked-up religion into that mix and it gets even stranger.

                        Look at how Tito kept order in Yugoslavia and what happened after he died.

                        Edit: You have to remember that Saddam was our boy until he asked permission from us to invade Kuwait and when we didn't reply he took that as permission to do it. It's sort of sad that we used the man (who was extremely loyal to the US) the way that we did and once we were done cast him aside. In the end though he has had the last laugh because his fall from power has caused us more problems than he could have ever caused even if he wanted to.
                        Last edited by svauto-erotic855; 01-04-2020, 09:59 AM.
                        Magnus, I am your father. You need to ask your mother about a man named Calvin Klein.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Gasser64 View Post
                          So by god they needed our invading army, right? I'm with Ron Paul on this one. We never should've been there.
                          There are squalid shithole countries all over the world and nothing that happens in them matters to anyone. That was the case with the Middle East until we discovered oil there. If they didn't have oil no one would care about anything that happens there but the oil is there and until it's gone the world will have to deal with these inbred religious fanatics.
                          Magnus, I am your father. You need to ask your mother about a man named Calvin Klein.

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by svauto-erotic855 View Post
                            They were terrified under Ol Sadaam, he would kill someone, their entire family, and everyone they've ever met in their entire life if they stepped out of line.

                            Part of why those people are crazy is because they have been marrying their first cousins for the past 1600 years, the inbreeding has resulted in some unusual behavior. Throw a fucked-up religion into that mix and it gets even stranger.

                            ... his fall from power has caused us more problems than he could have ever caused even if he wanted to.There are squalid shithole countries all over the world and nothing that happens in them matters to anyone.
                            You just listed several reasons that further my point. They're nutty by our standards. That religion they seem to love so much, is why they want a boot on their necks. Well good for them I guess, let their have their boot. If they really got fed up, they'd throw him out and institute "freedom". Revolutions happen. But they're clearly not interested, and I don't really see it as our responsibility (or our right) to force it on them.

                            In the end they're just going to get a fake democracy that is pretty close to what they had under sadaam. As our consumption of fossil fuels just dips lower and lower over the coming decades, like you said we'll care what happens there less and less. As long as no actual WMD's happen, nobody cares. And they shouldn't, they should be left to set up the government that best suits them. Dictatorship is really all they've ever known and it seems like it's what they want.
                            WH

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                            • #29
                              If you think we're going to use less fossil fuels as time progresses your nuts. We're going to use more every single year until there is no more of it.

                              People in that part of the world were batshit crazy before Islam came along. Basically they're defective and need to be eliminated. If we can profit off of them in the meantime then all the better.
                              Magnus, I am your father. You need to ask your mother about a man named Calvin Klein.

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by svauto-erotic855 View Post
                                You have to remember that Saddam was our boy until he asked permission from us to invade Kuwait and when we didn't reply he took that as permission to do it. It's sort of sad that we used the man (who was extremely loyal to the US) the way that we did and once we were done cast him aside. In the end though he has had the last laugh because his fall from power has caused us more problems than he could have ever caused even if he wanted to.
                                Same manner in which Jimmy Carter threw the Shah under the bus, ultimately giving us the Iran we have today. Good times though when Iraq and Iran duked it out for most of the 1980’s, especially when the Iranians used human wave attacks in desperation. Another failure was given to us by Obama, who took out Colonel Khadafi and gave us the Libyan mess today. Khadafi was doing nothing to us, and had renounced his old terrorist ways and quest for nuclear weapons long beforehand. Obama just had to stick his nose into it though as part of his BS Arab Spring campaign, which of course was a total failure everywhere it was pushed.
                                Last edited by The King; 01-04-2020, 03:08 PM.

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