Though President Trump has said that there were no American casualties in Iran’s missile attack on the Ayn al-Asad airbase, the US military now says that 11 troops actually were taken out of the base for treatment after the strike.
Iran attacked Ayn al-Asad in retaliation for the US assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The Iranian government gave the US and several other nations advance notice to try to reduce the possibility of casualties.
It is unclear why the Pentagon went along with the reports of no casualties for so long before coming out with this. It may suggest they were trying to help with cooling down tensions by not heavily publicizing it.
Troops took cover before the attack, and were subsequently not hit. The 11 US troops who needed to go to treatment showed symptoms of a concussion owing to the blast. CENTCOM confirmed that the troops were taken for “follow-on screening” as a measure of caution.
While concussions potentially have serious long-term ramifications, the CENTCOM comments seemed to downplay that risk, saying they expect those 11 troops to return to Iraq as soon as they are deemed fit for duty.
AFAIK, those troops were flown to Landstuhl. Would that be done as follow up care for a concussion and/or concussion like symptoms? Something doesn’t add up. Iran was saying there were casualties on the night of the attack. Pentagon denied it. I wonder if this means the US govt is trying to cover their asses for not warning the troops in time.
“It is unclear why the Pentagon went along with the reports of no casualties for so long before coming out with this. It may suggest they were trying to help with cooling down tensions by not heavily publicizing it.”
Probably trying to hide it from the village idiot. They didn’t want him flying off the handle and starting WW3. Strange, the pentagon is less scary than Trump.
Interesting theory
What US troops are doing in Iraq? No weapons mass destruction found, there never was any weapons anyways. SADDAM is dead. What is the purpose of US troops in Iraq. Plus killed Iranian general. Who give US the right to invade Iraq in the first place and also to kill a general. Are the international laws dead? Where is UNO? You can’t kill another country general without trial
, courts, prosecutors…when the US will be accountable for its misdemeanors, felonies and mass murdering of people starting from killing of red indians, Mexicans, black Americans,…Vietnamese,… Iraqis… with end no where in sight, voracious appetite and greed for oil and other natural resources. HOW LONG will it take for the poeple conscience to wake up? It will be too late then. Plus we have the byproduct of british colonism called ISRAEL, the people who have always been stuborn, narcissist, racists being self disillusioned for being the chosen pigs. PALESTINIANS are paying for the crime of Europeans killing of Jews. US continues to make mroe enemies by its frivolous behaviour and hypocrisy. Kill more people and create more enemies. THE BOTTOM LINE — WHAT THE US soldiers are doing in Iraq and the middle east?
I wonder if anyone on here saw this article?
https://sachtimes.com/en/world/224-injured-american-soldiers-transported-from-iraq-to-israel/
Interesting, cant seem to see on their page where sachtimes is based..
The content seems to indicate Pakistan, but whois says Dubai.
Lots of Pakistani media, news channels are based out of Dubai.
0, 11, 224. I mean, whose bullsh*t am I suppose to believe?
Easy to guess the actual number isn’t any of those….
There is substantially more BS than truth nowadays.