New Details About Strike On Top Iranian Commander Emerge
As Americans Are Told To Flee Iraq:
"U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that Qasem Soleimani, commander of
Iran's Quds Force, posed an "imminent" threat and that a drone strike that killed him
and the other occupants of two SUVs outside of Baghdad International Airport in Iraq
"saved American lives." At the same time, repercussions from the unprecedented U.S.
military operation are being felt, with the increasing possibility that the Iraqi
government might order American forces out of the country and the State
Department itself urging American citizens to leave as soon as possible. The United
States has also formally decided to send thousands more troops to the region to
bolster security as countries throughout the Middle East brace for any number of
responses from Iran and its proxies.
A drone under the control of the Joint Special Operations Command, reportedly an
MQ-9 Reaper, carried out the mission. The Iranian regime has now confirmed that
Soleimani along with four other members of the country's powerful Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), died in the strike. The Quds Force is the part of
the IRGC responsible for conducting and coordinating terrorist and militant activities
outside of Iran. "Highly classified information from informants, electronic intercepts,
reconnaissance aircraft, and other surveillance" went into the planning of the strike,
according to The New York Times.
"I can’t talk too much about the nature of the threat," Secretary Pompeo said in an
interview on CNN's "New Day" on Jan. 3, 2020. Pompeo did describe the threat as
"imminent" and stressed that it was directed at American interests in the Middle East,
but declined to elaborate.
“It was the time to take this action so we could disrupt this plot... The risk of doing
nothing was enormous, the intelligence committee made that assessment," he added.
“We will do our best to release everything we know that’s appropriate that doesn’t put
anyone at risk.""
See:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...d-to-flee-iraq