Photo from the Anti-Jihadist Coalition in Iraq showing a security guard in front of the wreckage of two drones shot down by the US military at Baghdad Airport on January 3, 2022 (Guide / -)
The U.S. military says two drone strikes targeted a coalition of anti-jihadists at Baghdad airport on Monday, marking the second anniversary of the assassination of Iranian General Qasim Suleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant.
On January 3, 2020, at the behest of then US President Donald Trump, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was sprayed on a vehicle en route to Baghdad International Airport by Qasim Suleimani, the designer of Iran’s Middle East strategy. Accompanying him were Abu Mehdi al-Mouhandis, Hazrat al-Safi’s No. 2 coalition of pro-Iranian militias, now integrated into the Iraqi regular forces.
Monday’s attack, which took place at 4:30 a.m. (01:30 GMT), was not immediately claimed.
“Two armed drones have targeted Baghdad airport,” an official of the US-led International Coalition told AFP. The drones were targeting a “diplomatic support center,” but “C-RAM security batteries intercepted them and shot them down,” he said.
The center, which is affiliated with the United States embassy, has a “very small number of non-combatant coalition troops” and “personnel in charge of logistics, service providers and personnel,” the official said. Anonymous.
– “Revenge Actions” –
Photos taken by AFP from the same source show the remains of the projectile. “The commanders’ retaliatory actions,” reads a piece of black metal, referring to Suleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant.
Photo taken by the Anti-Jihadi Alliance in Iraq (Guide / -) showing a military expert possessing part of one of the two drones shot down by the Americans at Baghdad Airport on January 3, 2022.
“Iraqis have launched an investigation,” the official said. “No damage, but this is a civilian airport. It’s very dangerous to carry out this kind of attack.”
Dozens of rocket attacks or trapped drone strikes have targeted US troops and interests in Iraq in recent months. Never claimed ownership, these attacks are being deliberately blamed by the US on pro-Iraq factions.
However, in recent weeks they have fallen sharply.
Enemy nations Iran and the United States are both active forces in Iraq.
Pro-Iranian factions continue to demand the complete withdrawal of US troops stationed in Iraq as part of an international alliance of several countries, especially Western troops, that helped Iraqi forces defeat the jihadist group State Islamist (IS). .
The call was reiterated by Hussein al-Sabee’s leaders on Saturday, before thousands of protesters gathered in Baghdad to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Qasim Suleimani.
On Monday, Iranian President Ibrahim Rice threatened former US leaders, including Donald Trump, during a rally in Tehran to condemn “their heinous crime” and “retaliate.”
In Israel, Iran’s first enemy, the English-language Jerusalem Post website and the daily Maariv’s Hebrew Twitter account were hacked and issued threats against the Hebrew government.
– “It’s all over” –
“You must understand the messages sent to you by the heroes of the Iraqi opposition: their weapons, their drones, their brilliant missiles, they reached you everywhere on Iraqi soil,” Gays exploded on Saturday. Al-Qasali, one of the main Hasht factions, Assa’ib Ahl al-Haq addressed the Americans.
Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on him in a televised address on Monday as US forces withdrew from Iraq, saying he “believed that the continuation of their existence would create a new massacre of Qasim Sulaimani, Abu Mehdi al-Mouhandis and all the martyrs.”
On December 9, the Iraqi coalition announced the “end of the war effort”, which continues its role of training and advising its troops on Iraqi soil to this day.
In fact, about 2,500 U.S. troops and 1,000 Allied soldiers are currently stationed at three bases held by Iraqi forces.
These foreign troops have already served as advisers and trainers for more than a year.
In Najaf, a Shiite holy city in southern Iraq on Monday, hundreds of people attended a memorial service and went to the tomb of Abu Mehdi al-Mouhantis the next day carrying candles at Baghdad airport.
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