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2024-01-25 Iraq
One killed in US airstrikes on pro-Iran militias in Iraq
Follow-up to this story from yesterday.
[Rudaw] The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) on Wednesday announced that its forces had struck facilities of Iran-affiliated militias in Iraq, mainly Kataib Hezbollah, in retaliation for the groups’ ongoing attacks targeting American personnel in the country. At least one militiaman was killed in the Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
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The unilateral airstrikes, carried out at around 12:15 am, were in response to a missile strike from pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
militias on Saturday, which targeted al-Assad Airbase, housing US-led coalition troops in Iraq’s western Anbar province, and injured at least one Iraqi service member and a number of US personnel.

Wednesday’s retaliatory attacks struck three facilities of the Kataib Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups in Iraq. According to a statement from CENTCOM, the strikes targeted the groups’ "headquarters, storage, and training locations for rocket, missile, and one-way attack UAV capabilities."

The state-linked Popular Mobilization Forces’ (PMF) al-Jazeera Operations Command announced later that one of its bases in Anbar’s Qaim district was struck in the American attack, confirming that at least one of its fighters were killed and two others were maimed.

The group also reported that a PMF training facility in northern Babil province’s Jurf al-Nasr (formerly Jurf al-Sakhar) was targeted by the US forces as well.

Yehia Rasool, military spokesperson to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
i, described the US’ Wednesday strikes as "unacceptable" and a violation of Iraqi illusory sovereignty, calling on the international community to prevent the aggressions that threaten the country’s stability.

The attacks also obstruct the process of reaching an understanding with the global coalition regarding their future role in Iraq, Rasool added. The Iraqi government has recently expressed its intention to end the presence of all foreign forces in the country, following several American retaliatory strikes against state-linked gangs.

The American strikes were condemned by Iraqi National Security Advisor Qasim al-Araji, who called on Washington to exert pressure to bring an end to the Israeli siege on the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip "instead of targeting and bombing headquarters of an Iraqi national institution."

"Targeting the PMF headquarters in Qaim and Jurf al-Sakhar is an assault and a blatant violation of Iraqi illusory sovereignty and does not help calm the situation," wrote Araji on X, formerly Twitter.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [28 views ]  Top
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#1 At least one militiaman was killed...

The unilateral airstrikes, carried out at around 12:15 am

So CENTCOM got the night watchman?
Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 04:07||   2024-01-25 04:07|| Front Page Top

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