US tried to kill Iranian commander in Yemen same night as Soleimani strike: Officials
Source: ABC News
An unsuccessful strike on another high-ranking Iranian military commander took place in Yemen on the same night a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, two sources told ABC News.
The Jan. 2 nighttime strike targeted Abdul Reza Shahla'i, a key Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force commander, at his compound in Yemen, where he led Iran's military support for the Houthi rebel group backed by Iran, according to a counterterrorism official and a U.S. official.
The strike on the compound was carried out by a drone, the counterterrorism official told ABC News, adding that by the next morning the U.S. learned the strike was unsuccessful.
A former counterterrorism official told ABC News Shahla'i was in charge of Iran's operations inside Yemen, particularly the flow of missiles and drones to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have used those weapons to attack Saudi Arabia.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-kill-iranian-commander-yemen-night-soleimani-strike/story?id=68200887&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_hero_hed
Looks like now we're Saudi Arabia's mercenaries. Jared must need cash.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)sh*tless after this. Is this why Kushner met with the Saudi Prince in his Father In Laws office?
BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)strike was not a success. I guess when "adults" play war games some things don't go according to plan. I never would have imagined such a thing is possible.....
* Lesson: Don't play "war games", ever!
iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)riversedge
(70,310 posts)1) The bombshell news of the failed effort to kill Shahlai shows once again that we have no idea how deep Trump's deceptions on Iran really run.
We talked to two senior House Democrats about the news. Here are their quotes: It's alarming stuff.-
Link to tweet
?s=20
Replying to
@ThePlumLineGS 2)
@RepEliotEngel, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, says he has "no doubt" that the operation is broader than we know, and largely being concealed from Congress:
The more you hear, the more you realize that youve been fed a bunch of untruths."
Link to tweet
?s=20
Link to tweet
?s=20
Link to tweet
?s=20
Link to tweet
?s=20
On the day U.S. forces killed Soleimani, they targeted a senior ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com world national-security 2020/01/10
22 hours ago - The strike targeting Abdul Reza Shahlai, a financier and key ... In a news conference last year, the U.S. special representative for Iran, Brian ...
Hugin
(33,207 posts)Secret State-Dep't led off-the-books wars and where's Jared?
This IS NOT how the United States of America does business. Period.