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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IRGC general accidentally kills self while cleaning gun
2018-12-17
[IsraelTimes] A Revolutionary Guard general who fought in Syria and Iraq has accidentally killed himself while cleaning a gun.
...almost as innocent as dying from a fall in the bathroom, which is why I put it on Page 3: Non-WoT despite his Lion of Islam status.
A Sunday report on the Guard’s website says Gen. Ghodratollah Mansouri earlier Sunday accidentally shot himself in the head while cleaning his pistol.
It’s clearly my complete inexperience in the subject that leads to my inability to imagine the biomechanics of the situation.
The report said Mansouri was veteran of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war and a "defender of the shrine," a reference to Iranians who fight the bad boy 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 in Syria and Iraq.

Since 2014, Mansouri was a regional commander of the Guard’s ground forces in the northeastern city of Mashhad, some 900 kilometers (nearly 560 miles) east of the capital Tehran.

Hundreds of Iranian forces have been killed fighting IS in Syria and Iraq.

Iran, the regional key supporter of Syria’s government, says its forces there only perform an advisory role.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  Jeez, a guy can't even clean his gun in the park anymore without everyone getting all suspicious.
Posted by: Phinert Wheath6583   2018-12-17 11:29  

#4  In the back of the head twice? Is there a purge going on in Iran?
Posted by: JohnQC   2018-12-17 09:26  

#3  Maybe he was recovering from a Lasik surgery...
Posted by: jvalentour   2018-12-17 05:43  

#2  It’s clearly my complete inexperience in the subject that leads to my inability to imagine the biomechanics of the situation.

This commonly happens when you are cleaning your weapon and your ear itches so you decide to scratch it with the cocked and loaded gun - often after falling down the stairs once or twice.
Posted by: SteveS   2018-12-17 05:33  

#1  Obviously horse$hit or they would have blamed it on Israel.
Posted by: gorb   2018-12-17 03:00  

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