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Iraq
New U.S. Airstrikes North of Baghdad – Three Vehicle Convoy of Iran-backed Shia Militia Leaders…
2020-01-04
[Conservative Treehouse] Reports of new late-night U.S. airstrikes north of Baghdad are starting to be confirmed. According to developing reports a convoy of two or three vehicles carrying Iran-back Shia Militia leaders was targeted near Taji in Northern Baghdad.

The strike is reported to have killed Qais Khazali, one of the people the US named as responsible for storming of US Embassy in Baghdad. Also Shibl al-Zaydi is now confirmed to have been killed. Shibl was the leader of Kata'ib al-Imam Ali or the Imam Ali Battalions.

BAGHDAD – (Reuters) Air strikes targeting Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of Iran-backed Shi'ite militias near camp Taji north of Baghdad have killed six people and critically wounded three, an Iraqi army source said late on Friday. Two of the three vehicles making up a militia convoy were found burned, the source said, as well as six burned corpses. The strikes took place at 1:12 am local time, he said. – Air strikes targeting Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of Iran-backed Shi'ite militias near camp Taji north of Baghdad have killed six people and critically wounded three, an Iraqi army source said late on Friday.

Two of the three vehicles making up a militia convoy were found burned, the source said, as well as six burned corpses. The strikes took place at 1:12 am local time, he said.


Airstrike kills 5 members of Iran-backed militia, Iraq official says
Not necessarily US Strikes. "Today, I settled all family business, so don't tell me you're innocent, Carlo Ali"
[Fox News] An airstrike Friday hit two cars carrying members of an Iran-backed militia north of Iraq's capital, Baghdad, killing five members, an Iraqi official told The Associated Press.

The official added that the identities of those killed were not immediately known. It was not immediately clear who launched the strike.

The latest operation came almost exactly 24 hours after a U.S. airstrike killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) elite Quds Force, and nine others.

New US air strike targets Hashed commander in Iraq: state TV

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Qais Khazali: 2019-12-15 Pompeo warns Iran after proxy attacks in Iraq
Posted by:Frank G

#6  You rascal.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-01-04 12:05  

#5  ^"Nope. Wasn't us." You're learning.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2020-01-04 09:14  

#4  Army spokesman says "Wasn't us. Nope".
Sorry link down the memory hole.
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-01-04 07:40  

#3  Well, technically gorb, it was the seizure of our embassy in Iran and non-consequence that followed which it can all be traced to.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-01-04 07:21  

#2  Not necessarily US Strikes.

A most excellent time for settling old scores and tidying up the neighborhood since Uncle Sam will take the heat for whatever happens. Let the drone-zapping begin!
Posted by: SteveS   2020-01-04 02:00  

#1  Must be a MSM graphic. No picture of the man responsible for starting all this madness.
Posted by: gorb   2020-01-04 01:57  

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