Another indicator that the illegal U.S. occupation positions in Iraq and Syria are completely indefensible.
Zero Hedge reports…
Details have continued trickling out and are scant, but by all accounts the Saturday attack on Al-Asad airbase in Western Iraq, which houses US forces, was a big one. Reuters cites an official who said “the base was hit by ballistic missiles but he left open the possibility it was struck by rockets.” This has led to some speculation that ballistic missiles could have been fired on the US outpost from Iranian territory.
Some updates:
– Not rockets, but tactical ballistic missiles;
– U.S. injuries confirmed;
– 15+ U.S. Patriot missiles were launched to intercept, but some missiles still got through — meaning attack was BIG;
– #Iran-directed "Islamic Resistance in #Iraq" claimed responsibility. https://t.co/E858p7PNRz— Charles Lister (@Charles_Lister) January 20, 2024
US personnel suffered minor injuries and a member of Iraq’s security forces was seriously wounded in an attack on Iraq’s Ain al-Asad air base on Saturday, a US official said, citing initial assessments, which are subject to change.
At least a dozen missiles were fired at a military base used by US-led coalition forces in western Iraq, a US defense source and Iraqi police told AFP.
Al-Asad was the second largest base constructed during George Bush’s “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” — wherein ‘freedom’ in Neocon-speak of course refers to 300,000 dead Iraqi civilians — an operation which ostensibly ended in December of 2011.
The Pentagon will use these strikes — on a base constructed for Bush's Iraq war which ended in 2011 — to escalate US involvment in the ME.
The media will ignore all context of US funding Israel's war and fail to ask any questions on why the base still operates 13 years later: https://t.co/kN02MdvVNA
— Liam Cosgrove (@cosgrove_iv) January 20, 2024
The Iran Observer said to “expect US retaliatory strikes against Iraqi resistance forces.”
This follows an Iranian strike on what they deemed foreign “espionage centers” and “anti-Iranian terrorist gatherings in parts of the region” with ballistic missiles, killing four though no Americans…
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