[ April 24, 2024 ]
Last Wednesday, an Iranian-backed Shia militia launched 18 Katyusha rockets at Camp Taji, located 17 miles north of Baghdad.An Iranian-backed militia launched an attack killing the two Americans and a British soldier in Iraq.
“The Iranian proxy group Kata’eb Hezbollah is the only group known to have previously conducted an indirect fire attack of this scale against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq,” Gen. Kenneth McKenzie told Senate lawmakers Thursday morning.
Despite adding over 10,000 U.S. troops to the region since May, McKenzie says Iran continues its attacks against U.S. forces.
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“What has not changed is their continuing desire to operate through their proxies indirectly against us,” McKenzie added.
US launches retaliatory airstrikes on Iran-backed militias in Iraq
By Ryan Morgan, American Military News, March 12, 2020
U.S. and coalition warplanes have carried out retaliatory strikes on pro-Iranian militias in Iraq believed responsible for a round of deadly rocket attack Wednesday on an Iraqi base housing U.S. and British troops.
U.S. and coalition warplanes have carried out retaliatory strikes on pro-Iranian militias in Iraq believed responsible for a round of deadly rocket attack Wednesday on an Iraqi base housing U.S. and British troops.
The retaliatory airstrikes targeted weapons facilities used by the pro-Iranian Kata’ib Hezbollah militia to launch its dozens of Katyusha rockets against Camp Taji, Iraq, the Pentagon wrote in a press release Thursday evening. The strikes hit five weapon storage facilities, the Pentagon stated.
“These strikes were defensive, proportional, and in direct response to the threat posed by Iranian-backed Shia militia groups (SMG) who continue to attack bases hosting OIR coalition forces,” the Pentagon statement said.
The Pentagon noted the Kata’ib Hezbollah militia’s Wednesday rocket attack killed three people including two U.S. service members and one British service member and wounded 14 others. The attack also several Iraqi Security Forces members.
A video posted to Twitter shortly after the announced strikes purported to show one of the Kata’ib Hezbollah weapons storages being hit by U.S. strikes.
https://twitter.com/As_SourceBrkNew/status/1238244586801291264
Further claims assessed as many as seven members of the militia were hospitalized following the attack, though it was unclear if those assessments were accurate or if the strikes resulted in further casualties inflicted against the Kata’ib Hezbollah.
https://twitter.com/As_SourceBrkNew/status/1238254532620140544
“The United States will not tolerate attacks against our people, our interests, or our allies,” Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said of the incident. “As we have demonstrated in recent months, we will take any action necessary to protect our forces in Iraq and the region.”
The recent incident comes just months after another round of escalatory actions between U.S. and pro-Iranian forces. In December of 2019, a civilian contractor for the Department of Defense was killed in a similar rocket attack on Iraq’s K1 military base in Kirkuk. The U.S. responded with a series of air strikes against the Kata’ib Hezbollah militias.
The late December rocket attack and subsequent U.S. retaliatory airstrikes kicked off a series of events which saw many of those same pro-Iranian sympathizers storm the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. U.S. forces bolstered the embassies defenses and carried out another airstrike days later against Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, while he was travelling in Baghdad in the first week of January 2020. U.S. officials, at the time, assessed that Soleimani inspired the embassy attack.
Iran responded to the U.S. strike on Soleimani by launching more than a dozen missiles against two U.S. positions in Iraq on Jan. 8. The strikes did not result in any U.S. deaths and President Donald Trump signalled, at the time, an easing in the tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
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34 Comments
4 years ago
Now imagine such airstrikes being carried out by a USAF compromised by f’ing muslums at all levels — from ground crew to CO’s.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Maybe that is why they would not confirm where the aircraft were launched from.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Which is why we need to thoroughly screen and keep them the hell out of our military –
4 years ago
Good news..
Remember Hussein Obama and Hillary took the side of the Iranian Mullahs as the Mullahs opened fire on the peaceful protesters..
4 years ago
I WOULD GO AFTER HEZBOLLAH’S FAMILY MEMBERS. Round them up, arrest them, and incarcerate them IN A TOP SECRET BUNKER UNTIL HEZBOLLAH GIVES UP. then, when they do, arrest them and let their families go.
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
…you’re assuming they give a dam about their families…..they would prefer you kill their families so they could put on a display of grief and anger for the UN…..and the world.
4 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
like roaches… you got to get them all or whats the point? -Charles Bronson
4 years ago
The word “proportional” really stood out. Proportional? If someone attacks you, you go for the jugular. Bombing five weapons depots is fine, but make certain that there will be few left to tell about it.
Best way to wipe out a weapons cache is to hit it with napalm. What a bomb or rocket might miss, flaming gel will get. Also it would terrorize the terrorists. Consider it cremation from above.
Save the rockets for enemy encampments, which should have been the target of the retaliation; after all, they went after troops.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Napalm bombs were designed as a “Surface Clearing” bomb. They didn’t have a lot of deep penetrating explosive capabilities like the Bunker Busters or 3200lb bombs.
“Hardened” targets, consisting of 6″ & thicker Concrete, some types of the Clay type structures you see on tv in the Middle East & All Steel buildings would remain only a little worse for the wear. Exception would be the roofs exposure to the gelled fir of death burning them till they caved in!?
“Underground” targets, like NAM’s INFAMOUS Tunnels, would probably not be opened or caved in, however due to the intense heat Napalm generates. 1,500 degrees PLUS, covering all entrances to them, the extreme heat & breathing became issues,
NAPALM burns all the oxygen from within the Flames boundaries, therefore anyone inside those tunnels would probably die from the heat they would inhale & cook their lungs inner tissues!
OR they would die from lack of oxygen cause NAPALM is not a 15 minute fire storm! It burns for a long time!
BombFallout shelters would be more likely to be non-affected.
IDEAL strategy would be to use BUNKER BUSTERS to open up any underground structures known to U.S Military, Followed with several NAPALM bombs to CLEANSE THE AREA 100%!
BOTH ABOVE & BELOW GROUND!
DIAPERHEAD SURVIVAL RATE: 0%::
U.S. TROOPS SUCCESS RATING = 100%!!
4 years ago
Proportional can mean many things. For example 3 to 1 or 10 t0 1.
4 years ago
So iran is attacking Americans as an act of war so it’s time to show them what a real war looks like and level iran!!!!
4 years ago
Reply to
dad1927
NATO is a lost cause now and the US needs to leave it along with the UN and get the UN out of the US.
3 years ago
Reply to
Kenny Jones ™
You seem to be a year late on this story but go ahead and spew. There’s a moronic delusional peepads libturd occupying our WH now so all iran will get now is pallets of cash!!!!
3 years ago
Reply to
patd
We don’t need your cash, just stop protecting israel and leave the middle east
4 years ago
Strike back Hard and Deadly.
It’s the only language these infidel savages understand.
Let them feel The Pain.
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4 years ago
Smoke ’em till they sizzle!
4 years ago
“We” don’t get it ?!
Even after 1.400 years of muslim terror ?!
After 70 years of worst and still increasing muslim terror the planet ever experienced – with millions of victims ?!
ISLAM is the CANCER of the Planet !
ISLAM is an IDEOLOGY !
ISLAM is NOT a RELIGION !
ISLAM is NOT A RACE !
Muslims understand and respect ONE and nothing but ONE fact:
FORCE !
To get annihilated if they approach our borders
To get annilhiated if they cross our borders
To get annilhiated if they even try to attack us
To get annilhiated if they don’t behave like obedient and respectful guests once they ever are within our borders
ISLAM IS WORSE THAN ANY PANDEMIC !
ISLAM MUST GET DESTROYED ROOT AND BRANCH
3 years ago
Reply to
Porter G. Stone
Bad take, the actual virus is globalism and zionism, and your forces are occupation troops inside a foreign country, they will all get killed if they don’t withdraw
4 years ago
Those psychopaths have been fighting each other for thousands of years and we’re going to stop it? Ain’t happening – and now we’re getting sucked into it – We are’nt going to ever resolve their problems – they can’t – we are’nt going too.Keep them over there and let them go right on killing each other
4 years ago
We know where the Iranian leadership is hiding.Let’s annihilate them, their military bases and whatever is left of their oil production capacity. They have killed thousands of our servicemen, tens of thousands have been wounded, and trillions spent.Enough is enough! Annihilate them once and for all.
4 years ago
It’s too bad this good news has been overshadowed by the virus story. WE need to keep our wonderful military in our prayers and mourn the ones killed by these animals.
4 years ago
ONLY GOOD MUSSIESLIME BAG IS A DEAD MUSSIESLIME BAG! ‘Nuff said.
