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Daniel affirms: Thank You President Trump For Eradicating Suleymani, stating: You have taken out a vile mass murderer and terror master – and sent a vital message to terrorists.
Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
Photo: Fars News Agency via Wikimedia Commons.
US SAYS IT KILLED TOP IRANIAN COMMANDER QASSEM SOLEIMANI IN BAGHDAD AIR STRIKE
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Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, was killed early on Friday in a US air strike on his convoy at Baghdad International Airport, the Pentagon said.Top Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was also killed in the attack, a militia spokesman said.“This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans,” the Pentagon said in a statement.Iran‘s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirmed in a statement that Soleimani was killed.Ahmed al-Assadi, a spokesman for Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), the umbrella grouping of Iran-backed militias, blamed the United States and Israel.“The American and Israeli enemy is responsible for killing the mujahideen Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani,” he said.Strikes had been carried out against two targets linked to Iran in Baghdad on Thursday, US officials earlier told Reuters.Iraqi paramilitary groups said on Friday that three rockets hit the airport, killing five members of Iraqi paramilitary groups and two “guests.”The rockets landed near the air cargo terminal, burning two vehicles, killing and injuring several people.Local militia commander Abu Muntathar al-Hussaini told Reuters:“Haj Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were riding in one vehicle when it was struck by two successive guided missiles launched from an American helicopter while they were on their way from the arrivals hall on the road that leads out of Baghdad Airport.”He said the second vehicle was carrying bodyguards from the PMF and was hit by one rocket.“The American criminals had detailed information on the convoy’s movements.”Oil prices were up $2 on the news.The high-profile assassinations are seen as a massive blow to Iran, which has been locked in a long conflict with the United States that escalated sharply last week with the storming of the US embassy perimeter in Iraq by pro-Iranian militiamen following an American air raid on an Iraqi Shi’ite militia.Soleimani, who has led the foreign arm of the Revolutionary Guards and has had a key role in fighting in Syria and Iraq, acquired celebrity status at home and abroad.He was instrumental in the spread of Iranian influence in the Middle East, which the United States and Tehran’s regional foes Saudi Arabia and Israel have sought to keep in check.He survived several assassination attempts against him by Western, Israeli and Arab agencies over the past two decades.Soleimani’s Quds Force, tasked with carrying out operations beyond Iran‘s borders, shored up support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad when he looked close to defeat in the civil war raging since 2011 and also helped militiamen defeat Islamic State in Iraq.Soleimani became head of the Quds Force in 1998, a position in which he kept a low profile for years while he strengthened Iran‘s ties with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government and Shi’ite militia groups in Iraq._____________________________________________________
Bye Bye SuleymaniTrump takes out Iran's terror-meisterBY KENNETH R. TIMMERMANrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational and researchpurposes:The killing of Iranian terror-meister Qassem Suleymani in a targeted U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Thursday will have a dramatic impact on Iran’s ability to conduct oversea terrorist operations and the stability of the Iranian regime.But the real impact, one can legitimately wager, will be quite different from what you’ve been hearing so far from most of the U.S. and international media.Rather than engendering some massive Iranian “retaliation,” as many talking heads have been warning, I believe this strike will throw the Iranian regime back on its heels, as wannabe successors contemplate their careers vaporizing in a U.S. drone strike and Iran’s civilian leaders fret that they have been exposed as emperors without clothes.Put simply, the aura of the Iranian regime’s invincibility is over.They have pushed us and our allies repeatedly, and have been encouraged by the modest response from U.S. political and military leaders until now.But with this strike, the gloves are off. And the leadership in Tehran – and more importantly, the people of Iran – can see it.Suleymani was not some run-of-the-mill terrorist. He was worst of the worst; a man with more blood on his hands than even Osama bin Laden. Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Afghanistan, 9/11, Benghazi: all of them were his doing.But he was also the most respected and the only charismatic military leader to have emerged since the 1979 Islamist revolution in Iran.No other leader in Iran today even comes close to Suleymani for sheer star power.This is a huge loss for the Tehran regime; bigger, indeed, than if the Supreme Leader himself (who actually is a nobody) died or was killed.I’ve been watching the Iranian regime for 40 years. The only military leader who even comes close to Suleymani was the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, Mohsen Rezai.Rezai was respected because he was a man of the troops. He respected his men. He refused to throw them into combat for purely political purposes, as his political masters repeatedly demanded during the bloody eight-year Iran-Iraq war.And because of his loyalty to the troops, many of his troops and commanders remain loyal to him even today, more than twenty years after he resigned as IRGC commander.But Rezai failed miserably when he entered the political arena as a presidential contender, failing in three attempts to break ten percent. He never had the star power that Suleymani engendered – not from lack of trying.We have two historical parallels to compare to Thursday’s events: Operation Praying Mantis in April 1988, when U.S. naval forces sank 1/3 of the Iranian navy in a matter of hours after repeatedly catching them dispersing naval mines against international oil tankers in the Persian Gulf; and the presumed Israeli assassination of Iranian-Lebanese terrorist Imad Mugniyeh in Damascus in February 2008.In both cases, we were told Iran and their proxies were going to counter-attack with devastating lethality. Hundreds of Americans and Israelis were going to die. Thousands! The entire region was going to explode.In the end what happened? Absolutely nothing.That’s what I predict here as well.The Iranians have been lulled into thinking they can act with impunity in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.Finally, the United States has drawn a firm hard line on their bad behavior.This is exactly what we needed to do.I believe the Iranian people will draw the obvious conclusion that this once powerful regime has feet of clay. Expect bigger anti-regime protests inside Iran in the coming weeks, and popular revolts against Iranian interference in Lebanon and Iraq as well.To me, the biggest question remains: is President Trump ready for the revolution he has unleashed? With this single act, the United States has set in motion big historical forces for positive change. Are we prepared to help the forces of freedom against tyranny and oppression? Ken Timmerman is the New York Times best-selling author of Deception: The YouTube Video Hillary and Obama Blamed for Benghazi and other books on Middle East politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize for his work on Iran in 2006 and lectured on Iran at the Pentagon’s Joint Counter-Intelligence Training Academy in Quantico, Va, from 2010-2016._______________________________________________________________________________SEE ALSO:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/2015-obama-likes-soleimani
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/obama-welcomed-leader-of-attack-on-us-embassy-in-baghdad-to-the-white-house-in-2011
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10670210/iran-unfurls-red-flag-ready-for-war/
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/irans-supreme-leader-vows-jihad-for-qassem-soleimanis-killing
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/soleimani-was-responsible-for-the-deaths-of-over-600-u-s-soldiers