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Soleimani had just arrived on a flight from Syria, and was in a car leaving the airport when missiles from a US drone killed him
Daily Mail: How Qassem Soleimani was 'torn to shreds' by a US missile and his body had to be identified by his RING: Pentagon drone launched four rockets at car carrying Iranian general after he arrived from Syria to meet ringleaders of embassy attack
* US airstrike killed General Qassem Soleimani, the powerful head of Iran's elite Quds Force, in Baghdad
* The attack unfolded early on Friday local time in a precision strike on two cars that were carrying Soleimani
* Soleimani had just arrived in Baghdad on a flight from Syria and was leaving the airport when he was hit
* Attack also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, leader of Iranian militias in Iraq which led attacks on US embassy
Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's Quds force, was among five people killed when an American Reaper drone fired missiles at two cars carrying him and other senior officials out of Baghdad airport early Friday morning.
The senior general, commonly known as the second-most powerful man in Iran and tipped as a future president, was so badly maimed in the strike that he had to be identified by a large ring he wore on his finger.
Soleimani had arrived at the airport on a plane from either Syria or Lebanon around 12.30am when he was met on the tarmac by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq.
Muhandis pulled up to the aircraft steps in two cars before Soleimani and Mohammed Ridha Jabri, public relations chief for the PMF who had been traveling with him, climbed inside and were driven away.
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WNU Editor: This was an airstrike that deliberated obliterated the passengers in these cars. FRom what I have read, there is nothing left of Qassem Soleimani to bury.
Apparently felt no pain. That’s a shame. Quite a stinking mess though.
ReplyDeleteA brazen move by Khamenei to move Soleimani from relative protection in Syria by flight direct to Baghdad's Airport. Obviously a security leak pretty high up. No secret why Soleimani went to Baghdad; to stir-up more unrest and perhaps see that Iran-backed demonstrators had small arms, rpg's, and mortar support. Instead a circling Predator was videoing Soleimani's landing back to the USA. Khamanei made the bad mistake, and the Iranians know it. Iraqi civilians will pay.
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