With Iraq and the region still reeling after Thursday night’s US drone strike on the Baghdad International Airport, an attack which killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani as well as top members of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), a new US strike was reported Friday night.
Iraqi state media identified the new attack as another US airstrike, near the Taji stadium north of Baghdad. The attack hit a convoy of medics, destroying two medical vans, and killing at least six people, also identified as medical personnel.
Reports suggest that the attack was intended to target a commander within the PMU, and while they declined to say who they thought the US was trying to kill, Twitter reports after the strike initially claimed Ahl al-Haq leader Qais al-Khazali had been killed. This has since been denied, and it appears no PMU commanders were even present in the convoy.
US officials have yet to comment on the Friday attack, and it is likely to be difficult for them to explain attacking a medical convoy. After claiming the Thursday strike was meant to “stop a war,” Trump will struggle to argue bombing medical vans as comparably justifiable.
Time for the world to unite against those who are doing all they can to start a war. US and Israel.
All sources except Iranian media now seem to be backpedaling that this happened at all. Welcome to the fact-free zone.
No surprise; over Christmas some truther blogs reported that another Iran Hostage Crisis was being formented for the U.S. Baghdad embassy.
Given the sensitivity of the giant black box U.S. Embassy there, the panic button would have all but guaranteed Soleimani’s assassination.
No, Brock, the embassy is more 21st century bunker than an “embassy”. Iraqi militias don’t have the tools to seize it. Silly theory
Oh?
This link works, and its MSM.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/middle-east-north-africa/476318-protesters-storm-us-embassy-in-baghdad-after
Now, what kind of information was being fed to Trump as he was presented with the decision to kill Soleimani?
The U.S. may try and remove Iran militarily from Iraq, but its doubtful they could succeed.
The Iraqis cannot long overlook both the U.S. and Iran blatantly ignoring their sovereignty to fight a proxy war.
Too bad the Iraqi parliament can’t get the ball rolling and at least evict the U.S..
For the U.S. to assassinate a diplomatic guest (Soleimani) and indigenous leader (al-Muhandis) on Iraqi soil is too blatant a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.
The official reasons – Soleimani alleged to be planning attacks on U.S. troops – and unofficial – Soleimani alleged to be planning to state another Iran Hostage Crisis at the U.S. Baghdad Embassy – still aren’t sufficient legal justification, though emotionally self-explanatory.
Ridiculous suggestions, and anyway you cannot kill someone (legally) for allegedly planning something.
You can’t bomb wedding parties and funerals for allegedly being militant gatherings either.
Legality is the point; the U.S. defied Iraqi law and international convention.
Its just that in this case, the Iraqis can legally do something about that without necessarily needing the military force to back that up.
The US is right down there in the sewer with Israel, attacking and killing medics, assassinations, covered up with lies and propaganda.
Just like its friend an ally Israel does all the time in Gaza.
I have no sympathy for the people of Iraq, the vast majority of them ran from US invaders and sat awaiting those nice saviors from the lands of milk and honey to come bring them prosperity.
They have the form of Government they deserve, one filled with the most corrupt and successful US paid pawns that believe it or not the vast majority of Iraq voted for.
The Kurds got paid well to aid US invaders and continue to surpass all non Kurds life styles to this day, and smile as they bend over, it pays well.
How many Americans know that oil fields in Iraq and Syria within joint US- Kurd held areas is listed as “US Government Foreign Owned Assets” under US Treasury Department Supervision?
Did you also know what is Official designated places like Sicily, Iraq, and hundreds of other small nations with US military bases are listed as, “American Goverent Occupied Territory”; A.M.G.O.T.?
Of course that fact does not bother Trump and his VPs’ Christian Zionist fanatics who say Trump is doing GOD’s ‘ work.
Then again under the Bastardized form of Dominionist Christianity’s Zionism, telling a lie is not a sin as long as it advances JCs’ return timetable.
This US has turned into one huge rabbit hole, one where reality has an orange haired Chessy cat smiling like a fool leading whole bunch of murderous thieving psychopathic Closet Queens hollering “Off with the infidels heads”.
Oops, gotta run, looked at watch and I am late, am late, for a very important date, at Wal Mart. Gotta get there before the Mad Hatters buy up all the red hats.