Airstrikes against a base belonging to Iraq’s Popular Mobilization
Forces (PMF), the Shi’ite militia group that is part of Iraq’s military,
have reportedly killed several people on Monday morning. Particularly noteworthy is that the base was in Abu Kamal, a Syrian border town.
Details are still emerging, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
reported that the attacks were carried out by “unidentified warplanes.”
Immediate speculation was that this was an Israeli attack.
That would be in keeping with recent Israeli attacks on the PMF inside
Iraq, and Israeli claims that the base was “Iranian” last week. Media
reports continued to brand this an “Iranian” base, despite the fighters
clearly being with the Iraqi government.
The PMF has blamed both Israel and the US for recent attacks, and some
militia members have called for moves against US forces inside Iraq out
of retaliation, since they’re actually present and reachable, while
Israeli forces are not.
This will cause problems. This is Syrian-Iraqi border, and Syrian and Iraqi soldiers are manning it. Looking for “Iranians” has become a standard mantra, checking for wrong ethnicity— an Israeli pass time. But trying to decide that Iraq and Syria shall not control their borders, is the height of arrogance.
Nathan Yahoo’s trial in RST eight days.
More Israeli propaganda to ultimately justify a war with Hezbollah. All this “Iranian proxy” crap is just to conceal the real target while at the same time hype the “Iran threat to Israel” – which is what Trump needs to “justify” the US joining Israel in the next Hezbollah war.