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The United States has NOW started retaliatory strikes, Reuters reports.
2024-02-02
[Telegram] Given time to evacuate, damage will be "devastating!"
Posted by:DarthVader

#8  The Bryen/Asia Times take on this...

Iraq and Iran were complicit in the Tower 22 attack

Make what you will of it. It certainly isn't the view of the Biden Administration.
Posted by: Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.)   2024-02-02 20:03  

#7  WSJ reports Jordanian aircraft are also slated to join in U.S. operation and have been assigned targets.

Jordan’s role is unusual and is intended to demonstrate solidarity with the U.S. following the drone strike on Tower 22, an outpost in Jordan near the Syrian border.
Posted by: DarthVader   2024-02-02 18:18  

#6  US launches airstrikes on 85 targets linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard in Iraq and Syria: Pentagon drops 125 bombs in retaliation for deadly drone strike that killed three American soldiers in Jordan
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-02-02 17:34  

#5  Make Syria and Iraq suffer until they hand over all the iranian proxy fighters.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2024-02-02 17:28  

#4  After the required notification period(via Politico) to get the Right People out of harms way.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus   2024-02-02 17:26  

#3  Figures.
Transported a Bone by road through area recently, got everyone-a-fluttered, "How cool is that?"

Yeah. Cool.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2024-02-02 17:02  

#2  CENTCOM says its forces conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups.

U.S. military forces struck more than 85 targets, with numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from United States.

The airstrikes employed more than 125 precision munitions.

The facilities that were struck included command and control operations, centers, intelligence centers, rockets, and missiles, and unmanned aired vehicle storages, and logistics and munition supply chain facilities of militia groups and their IRGC sponsors who facilitated attacks against U.S. and Coalition forces.
Posted by: DarthVader   2024-02-02 16:40  

#1  ...Fight's on.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2024-02-02 16:26  

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