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Iraq
Can the US deter Iranian-sponsored attacks?
2019-12-30
Clearly written before yesterday’s most interesting events, in which President Trump neatly cut through the Gordian knot. It seems he was told interesting things during his quiet meetings with various enlisted troops.
[Rudaw] On Friday, a US contractor was killed and several American soldiers were maimed in a rocket attack on their base near Kirkuk. The rockets used in the attack appear to be of the same Iranian make as a 2009 shipment from 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 a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to Hezbollah that the Israelis intercepted. Seth Frantzman of the Jerusalem Post notes that these were also the same kind of rockets that Iran seems to have provided to Syria, and which Assad used to attack Eastern Ghouta in 2017.

Some three dozen of these 107mm rockets were fired at the US base by unknown assailants. However,
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Depends. Do you know where Iran lives?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2019-12-30 02:33  

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