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2020-01-03 Iraq
Iran's Gen. Qassem Soleimani killed in U.S. airstrike at direction of President Trump,
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Posted by Woodrow 2020-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top
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#1 Any way this can be construed to be a false flag attack? (Asking for a friend.)
Posted by gorb 2020-01-03 00:40||   2020-01-03 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Huh? False flag = staged by Iran??

That would be like the Nazis taking out Himmler and Rommel. Is your friend of sound mind?
Posted by Lex 2020-01-03 00:43||   2020-01-03 00:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Congratulations to those wonderful guys who got him, and to Trump and Netanyahu.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-03 01:19||   2020-01-03 01:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Is your friend of sound mind?

Sometimes. :-)
Posted by gorb 2020-01-03 01:52||   2020-01-03 01:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Year's off to a fine start.

I feel good! I knew that I would.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-03 02:10||   2020-01-03 02:10|| Front Page Top

#6 2020/01/02 Soleimani's martyred body enters heaven.
Thank you Allah for receiving your martyr into your heavenly Jannah.
If anyone is deserving of the full compliment of virgins it is your servant Soleimani.
Please, reassemble all of his exploded body parts into a beautiful dashing young general's heavenly body.
And may all the fat ladies of heaven sing for him.

Posted by boomerc 2020-01-03 02:36||   2020-01-03 02:36|| Front Page Top

#7 I find this interesting. The following was buried in a wall of text then lifted (NYT Opinion Section 1/2/2020).

... "Moreover hypersonics are a weaponized moral hazard for states with a taste for intervention, because they erase barriers to picking fights. Is an adversary building something that might be a weapons factory? Is there an individual in an unfriendly country who cannot be apprehended?

What if the former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani, visits Baghdad for a meeting and you know the address? The temptations to use hypersonic missiles will be many."
Posted by mossomo 2020-01-03 02:37||   2020-01-03 02:37|| Front Page Top

#8 May Allan grant his finger a more upscale and tasteful ring.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-03 02:39||   2020-01-03 02:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh - and to make it clear - he wasn't dead yet when the article was printed.
Posted by mossomo 2020-01-03 02:40||   2020-01-03 02:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Mossomo: good catch. Whose Opinion piece?

This sounds like a direct stenographic repeat of something conveyed to the NYT's whores by someone in the Ciaramella-Vindman cabal.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-03 02:43||   2020-01-03 02:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Do you guys/gals recognize the name? This is the asshole behind Iraqi(iran) IED technology - abu of the EFP.
Posted by mossomo  2020-01-03 02:45||   2020-01-03 02:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Here's the header info. Was tipped off from twitter. Have about 1 second to select all and copy. It's behind a NYT paywall.

Continue reading the main story
Opinion
Hypersonic Missiles Are a Game Changer
No existing defenses can stop such weapons — which is why everyone wants them.

By Steven Simon
Mr. Simon is an analyst at the Quincy Institute and teaches international relations at Colby College.

Jan. 2, 2020
Posted by mossomo 2020-01-03 02:50||   2020-01-03 02:50|| Front Page Top

#13 "Quincy Institute" is that new Soros + Charles Koch (!) initiative that rounded up a bunch of academics who are either
1) reasonably opposed to our "forever wars" - these are fairly normal, serious scholars, OR
2) unhinged advocates of the Iran nuclear deal.

For their separate reasons, both Soros and Koch are determined to try to resurrect the Iran deal.,

Bet this guy falls into the second camp.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-03 02:59||   2020-01-03 02:59|| Front Page Top

#14 
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-03 03:09||   2020-01-03 03:09|| Front Page Top

#15 "From 2011 to 2012 he served on the National Security Council staff as senior director for Middle Eastern and North African affairs."

A serious guy but one of Obama's sprawling, out of control NSC that Trump is only now scaling back. He may well have been told about the Suleimani hit by one of his former colleagues who's still on the NSC and receiving briefings.
Posted by Lex 2020-01-03 03:12||   2020-01-03 03:12|| Front Page Top

#16 "Operation Vengeance"

"How the U.S. killed naval Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind behind the Pearl Harbor attack."
Posted by boomerc 2020-01-03 03:25||   2020-01-03 03:25|| Front Page Top

#17 That was a precision hit, which implies that Quds' communications was compromised. That doesn't happen overnight, so likely we've got the Quds/IRGC/Hezb command structure mapped and know who's been talking to who of late, and maybe even what they were chatting about. Probably a few loose sphincters thereabouts today.
Posted by Nero 2020-01-03 03:41||   2020-01-03 03:41|| Front Page Top

#18 #17, yeah, apparently they basically dropped something on his head and had to identify him by his famous ring, as nothing else remained but his hand. Out of curiosity, what could we have used to make a hit like that? I just want to find a picture of it and update the background picture on my PC.
Posted by Beau 2020-01-03 04:48||   2020-01-03 04:48|| Front Page Top

#19 

Small Diameter bomb.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-01-03 06:15||   2020-01-03 06:15|| Front Page Top

#20 I'll take Nero's #17 for $600. Alex.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-03 06:39||   2020-01-03 06:39|| Front Page Top

#21 For #18, the AGM-176 Griffin was most likely the missile used based on the limited area of damage. The AGM-114 Hellfire would have left a crater and no evidence that there was a car there, much less any bodies.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-01-03 07:04||   2020-01-03 07:04|| Front Page Top

#22 So the heads of Quds, Hezbollah and the PFM (Pig-f*cking Militia)?

All good Sunni's should celebrate.

Ulululululu!
Posted by Mercutio 2020-01-03 07:40||   2020-01-03 07:40|| Front Page Top

#23  Out of curiosity, what could we have used to make a hit like that?

Switchblade
Posted by Skidmark 2020-01-03 09:24||   2020-01-03 09:24|| Front Page Top

#24 The media narrative reads like Trump had a vision of where Suliemani would be and called the CJCS and said "Kill him." It's more like the Pentagon briefed Trump "We know he's going to be here at this time, here are the options." And Trump said "kill him."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-03 09:56||   2020-01-03 09:56|| Front Page Top

#25 Now, watch carefully for the leaks and kill (figuratively) the leakers too...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-03 09:57||   2020-01-03 09:57|| Front Page Top

#26 It would be a treat if Trump wore that distinctive Red ring at his next Press Conference
Posted by Airandee 2020-01-03 10:52||   2020-01-03 10:52|| Front Page Top

#27 Whomp.

Was wondering what the secret ingredient was which got all the usuals wound up.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-01-03 10:56||   2020-01-03 10:56|| Front Page Top

#28 HT AOSHQ:
Qasem Soleimani @Qasam_Soleimani

On the bright side, I lost a lot of weight today

11:10 PM - Jan 2, 2020
Posted by Frank G 2020-01-03 14:53||   2020-01-03 14:53|| Front Page Top

#29 No more bag drags from the parking lot. No more TSA. No more airplane food. No more muscle aches and pains. No more taking out the trash or gossipy en-laws.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-01-03 16:20||   2020-01-03 16:20|| Front Page Top

#30  Iranians thank Trump for terrorist Soleimani being titzup.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-01-03 16:36||   2020-01-03 16:36|| Front Page Top

#31 Qasem Soleimani
‏@Qasam_Soleimani
Follow Follow @Qasam_Soleimani
MoreQasem Soleimani Retweeted Screaming Gull
Well:

1) It's very hot
2) All the beer is warm
3) All the virgins are men
4) This Adolf guy won't shut up
5) Lot of pissed off suicide bombers saying this wasn't what they signed up forQasem Soleimani added,
Screaming Gull

@GullScreaming
Replying to @Qasam_Soleimani @JoeSilverman7
How are things in Hell? Just wanna know...
8:41 AM - 3 Jan 2020
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-03 18:06||   2020-01-03 18:06|| Front Page Top

#32 While you've got him, tell him not to eat any pineapples he might find down there.
Posted by gorb 2020-01-03 18:42||   2020-01-03 18:42|| Front Page Top

#33 Reports Qais Khazali just got drone-zapped
Posted by Charles 2020-01-03 18:51||   2020-01-03 18:51|| Front Page Top

#34 [MECRA]

Qais al-Khazali (قيس الخزعلي) was targeted by US sanctions on December 6, 2019. "The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated three leaders of Iran-backed militias in Iraq that opened fire on peaceful protests, killing dozens of innocent civilians. OFAC designated Qais al-Khazali, Laith al-Khazali, and Husayn Falih ‘Aziz al-Lami pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818

"Sanctioned" - I do not think that word means what you think thought it means, Qais.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-01-03 19:06||   2020-01-03 19:06|| Front Page Top

#35 Sounds like a 2nd airstrike happened in Baghdad.
Posted by bbrewer126 2020-01-03 20:22||   2020-01-03 20:22|| Front Page Top

#36 A new U.S. air strike has targeted a convoy of pro-Iran militiamen late on Friday on Taji road north of Baghdad, Iraqi state TV said.

The air strikes targeted Iran-backed Shiite militia leaders near camp Taji north of Baghdad, killing six people and critically wounding three, an Iraqi army source said late on Friday.

Initial reports from militant social media sources indicated that a high-ranking figure may have been among those killed in the strike.
Posted by bbrewer126 2020-01-03 20:27||   2020-01-03 20:27|| Front Page Top

#37 Knockin' em down, 3 here, 6 there...
Posted by Lex 2020-01-03 22:55||   2020-01-03 22:55|| Front Page Top

#38 Very sad, really. A crying shame
Posted by Lex 2020-01-03 23:03||   2020-01-03 23:03|| Front Page Top

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