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2024-08-07 Iraq

Five US troops injured in missile attack on base in Iraq

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Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top
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#1 And Biden is Missing in Action.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-08-07 14:33|| 2024-08-07 14:33|| Front Page Top

#2 From early 2004 until late 2011, Al Asad Air Base was one of the most important air bases used by Coalition Forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom. For most of this time, this base in Al Anbar Province of western Iraq was operated by the U.S. Marine Corps to conduct aerial operations and support ground operations throughout the province. The history of this base, however, dates back to the mid-1980s. During Operation Desert Storm in 1991, Al Asad Air Base was subjected to numerous air attacks, sustaining massive damage.
Al Asad Air Base is located in the central portion of Al Anbar Province, western Iraq, some 12 miles from the city of Baghdadi and the Euphrates River. Baghdad is 120 miles to the east; the Syrian border is about 110 miles to the north-west.
The area in which Al Asad Air Base was constructed had a sporadic history that stretched back to Biblical times. Arab legend purported that Abraham and his family stopped at an oasis here during their journey from Ur to Haran. However, there is no mention of this in either the Bible or the Quran. This area was virtually uninhabited until the 1920s when several Iraqi families settled here and established a village known as Eyen Al Asad or “Spring of the Lion.”
In 1985, Saddam Hussein decided to have an air base constructed in the vicinity of the village of Eyen Al Asad and its oasis. He hired Yugoslavians to construct the base.
The air base was originally named Al Qadisiyah Airbase after the May 636 defeat of the Persians by Arab Muslims at the village of Qadisiyah south of Baghdad. As early as 1990, Qadisiyah was commonly referred to as Al Asad Air Base and that name has been used exclusively since 2003.

Posted by IS 2024-08-07 19:11|| 2024-08-07 19:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Good to know, IS. Thank you — my learning for today. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2024-08-07 21:03|| 2024-08-07 21:03|| Front Page Top

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