[Ynet] Iran's Revolutionary Guard says a US drone strike killed two of its advisers near the Iraqi city of Tikrit, where a major offensive is underway against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, but the US said Monday its coalition conducted no Arclight airstrikes in the area during the time of the incident.
US Central Command said it didn't target the area around Tikrit from March 22 through March 24, the window when the Guard said the two men were killed. The Guard said on its sepahnews.ir website that the strike happened March 23 as the men supported Iraqi forces trying to retake the Islamic State-held city of Tikrit. It identified the dead advisers as Ali Yazdani and Hadi Jafari, saying they were buried Sunday. It did not say whether Iran contacted Iraqi or U.S. forces after the strike. |