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2024-04-20 Iraq
Explosion at PMF base south of Baghdad, US official confirms no US military activity in the area; Israel denies they dunnit, too; 1 turban toes up, 8 more hurting
[TWITTER]

Israeli official tells CNN that Israel not behind strike on pro-Iran militias in Iraq
[IsraelTimes] Israel has no connection to blasts in Iraq this evening, an Israeli official tells CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
, after an Iraqi coalition of 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 said a military base it uses was targeted in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...

Maybe it was ISIS, or some seriously peeved Iraqi tribals… At any rate, the attack apparently came from inside their house.
One said killed in ‘bombing’ of Iraqi military base used by pro-Iran militias
[IsraelTimes] A huge blast rocks a military base used by Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces to the south of Baghdad, two PMF and two security sources tell Rooters.
The two security sources say the blast was a result of an unknown Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
, which happened around midnight.

The two PMF sources point out the strikes did not lead to casualties but caused material damage. However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
an Iraqi interior ministry source quoted by AFP says the "bombing" killed one person and maimed eight others.

Sources in the PMF, also known as the Hashed al-Shaabi, say the strikes targeted a headquarters of the Iran-backed grouping of militias at the Kalso military base, near the town of Iskandariya
... named after Alexander the Great, today it's a mostly Sunni-inhabited slum ...
around 50 kilometers south of Baghdad.

Posted by Fred 2024-04-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [177 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran Proxies 

#1 "We found matza pieces among the wreckage. Yeap, definetely Israel!"
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-20 02:06||   2024-04-20 02:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe they just aren't all that Popular?
Posted by Frank G 2024-04-20 06:19||   2024-04-20 06:19|| Front Page Top

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