JANUARY 3RD, 2020
BREAKING: U.S. Kills Two Top Iranian Military Leaders, Bigger Than Bin Laden, Al-Baghdadi, Reports Say
By Ryan Saavedra
DailyWire.com

U.S. military forces have reportedly killed two top Iranian military commanders involved in terrorism on Thursday night in Iraq in an airstrike in what analysts said was a significantly bigger deal than the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were the two Iranian military leaders who were killed.

BBC reporter Ali Hashem reported: “My sources suggesting that commander of IRGC Quds force Qassem Suleimani and Deputy chief of PMU Abu Mahdi AlMuhandes were in the convoy hit by the U.S. airstrike near Baghdad airport Iraq.”

Hashem later noted that Iraqi state media reportedly confirmed the news with a PMU source.

“The American and Israeli enemy is responsible for killing the mujahideen Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qassem Soleimani,” Ahmed al-Assadi, a spokesman for Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces umbrella grouping of Iran-backed militias, told Reuters.

“The attack appears to have been an airstrike that hit two vehicles,” The New York Times reported. “The strike was the second attack at the airport within hours. An earlier attack, late Thursday, involved three rockets that did not appear to have caused any injuries.”

The United States State Department released the following information about the Qods Force, which is a terrorist organization that Qassem Suleimani was in charge of:

• The IRGC—most prominently through its Qods Force—has the greatest role among Iran’s actors in directing and carrying out a global terrorist campaign.
• In recent years, IRGC Qods Force terrorist planning has been uncovered and disrupted in many countries, including Germany, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Kenya, Bahrain, and Turkey.
• The IRGC Qods Force in 2011 plotted a brazen terrorist attack against the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. on American soil. Fortunately, this plot was foiled.
• In September 2018, a U.S. federal court found Iran and the IRGC liable for the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing which killed 19 Americans.
• In 2012, IRGC Qods Force operatives were arrested in Turkey for plotting an attack and in Kenya for planning a bombing.
• In January 2018, Germany uncovered ten IRGC operatives involved in a terrorist plot in Germany, and convicted another IRGC operative for surveilling a German-Israeli group.

Numerous analysts said that the airstrike killing the two leaders was greater than the killing of bin Laden and al-Baghdadi.

AJC Global analyst Julie Lenarz tweeted: “If you multiply the death of Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al Baghdadi you begin to understand the significance of Soleimani’s death. This man controlled the most powerful state-controlled army of terror.”

Free Beacon writer Noah Pollak wrote: “If this is true, and I hope it is, it’s a bigger deal for the Middle East than the bin Laden raid or the killing of Mughniyeh in 2008. A much, much bigger deal.”

The National Washington Correspondent Joyce Karam tweeted, “Hard to understate how big this is • Qassem Suleimani is Iran’s most powerful mil figure in Region • He runs Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq • Both men designated by US as Terrorist • Muhandis was at US embassy attack protest, calls himself ‘Suleimani soldier.'”

Hard to understate how big this is

• Qassem Suleimani is Iran’s most powerful mil figure in Region
• He runs Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq
• Both men designated by US as Terrorist
• Muhandis was at US embassy attack protest, calls himself “Suleimani soldier”

This is a breaking news story, refresh the page for updates.

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voltron14:
Situation has become further inflamed.

Johnpaul1099:
US Military is just proving to be very dangerous by the day

espn:
Everywhere US...

budaatum:
I would suppose Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei is 'next' in their "decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad".

rafhell:
World War 3 loading.

afroniger:
Americans, both civilian and military, all around the mideast better double-up on their security because Iran will retaliate. I am not sure if Trump is ready to engage in a full blown military confrontation with Iran and her proxies in the mideast at this point in time. The coming days promise to be very unpredictable and volatile in that region.

Hotfreez:


Iran killed 1 American contractor, 2 days later, America killed 27 Iranian fighters.

The events of today show that no one has the monopoly of madness. E be like say them plenty for that Iran.

afroniger:


By now you should understand that these Mideast folks don't care about casualty figures the way Americans do. All they need do is kill a handful of U. S service men to put Trump on the hot seat in America. No be today America (or Israel) begin kill Arabs/Middle Easterners like chickens. The real question is how far would Trump be willing to go in the event of an Iranian response that inflicts a high casualty on Americans and her interests? Is America ready to go to war again in the mideast?

Hotfreez:


You'll realise that after they killed more than 2 dozen Iranians and Iran carried their madness to the American Embassy, the US has dropped their most senior military figure in Iran.

Iran now knows that if they try further nonsense, the US is capable of wiping out their leadership.

What I'm waiting for is the response of Russia and China. If you're online, you can stream Aljazeera. One Iranian clown is crying rule of law, bla bla.

afroniger:


You are still missing the point dude. Americans value human lives more than the avarage suicide-inclined Iranian/fanatic/ISIS/Middle Eastern. Therefore you are being naive in your line of thought. It's like saying you want to kill somebody that is already suicidal. Iran is being ruled by a bunch of religious and suicidal lunatics that actually intend to provoke another world war that they hope would usher in their own version of the Christian 'messiah' (whom they call the 'madhi' or '12th imam'). Try and read up on that if you get a chance. Iran is a suicidal state that doesn't see or value humanife the way the average American does. Irans's foreign policy is premised on provocation because it knows no matter what it does, America's response won't go past a certain point. Why else do you think America and Israel are adamant that Iran must not get the H-bomb? Simple reason is because Iran would not hesitate to use it against its enemies. I repeat that Iran is a suicidal state, even more so than North Korea. It's foreign policy is hinged on/driven by an extremist messianic ideology.

Hotfreez:


Iranians are Shiites, their ideology is same with that of Zakzaky.
Let them do their worst.

Zakzaky of IMN did his own here, today he has shut up and he's still in detention.

Let the Iranians bring it on. The Saudis would be so happy.