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Several dead, wounded in targeting a PMU militia site in Syria near Iraq border

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Iraqi Shiite fighters of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force secure the border area with Syria in al-Qaim in Iraq's Anbar province. (File photo: AFP)
 
 
 
Several people have been killed and wounded after the targeting of a Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU) militias’ military site near the Syrian border town of al-Bukamal, Al Arabiya sources have confirmed.

Several sources and eyewitnesses confirmed that a convoy of at least 20 vehicles belonging to pro-Iranian militias made cross the Iraqi-Syrian border as a response to the attack near al-Bukamal, according to Al Arabiya’s correspondent in Erbil.

The incident comes after a spate of mortar attacks hit bases in northern Iraq on Saturday.
 

Last Update: Sunday, 5 January 2020 KSA 23:59 - GMT 20:5
 
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US Navy cancels joint exercises in Morocco, redeploys troops to the Middle East

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Sailors and Marines stand on the deck of the USS Bataan (LHD 5) as it arrives into Pier 88 during the "Parade of Ships" ceremony to kick off Fleet Week in New York. (File photo: AFP)
 
 
 
A US Navy ship carrying thousands of Marines will skip a scheduled training exercise in Morocco and is making its way closer to the Middle East amid heightened tensions in the region, according to USNI News.

The US Bataan carrying an estimate of 2,200 Marines aboard are now making its way to the Middle East after revising plans to conduct joint training exercises with the Moroccan military, according to the media division of the United States Naval Institute.

The decision comes just a day after the United States confirmed it was sending nearly 3,000 additional troops to the Middle East from the 82nd Airborne Division as a precaution amid rising threats to American forces in the region.

Iran promised vengeance after a US airstrike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani, Tehran’s most prominent military commander and the architect of its growing influence in the Middle East.

 

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2020/01/04/US-Navy-cancels-joint-exercises-in-Morocco-redeploys-troops-to-the-Middle-East.html

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Britain’s navy to accompany UK-flagged ships through Strait of Hormuz

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A picture taken on February 3, 2014, shows the British warship HMS Montrose docked in the Cypriot port of Limassol. (File photo: AFP)
 
Britain’s navy will accompany UK-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz to provide protection after the killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani by US forces.

Defense minister Ben Wallace said he had ordered the warships HMS Montrose and HMS Defender to prepare to return to escort duties for all ships sailing under a British merchant flag.

“The government will take all necessary steps to protect our ships and citizens at this time,” he said.

Wallace said that he spoke with his American counterpart Mark Esper, adding “We urge all parties to engage to de-escalate the situation.”

“Under international law the United States is entitled to defend itself against those posing an imminent threat to their citizens,” he added.

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Issue 11228 Sunday, January 5, 2020, corresponding to 10 Jumada I 1441

Iraq: Rockets landed inside the Green Zone and the "Balad" base, without causing casualties

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A number of rockets landed Saturday evening in the Green Zone in Baghdad , where the US embassy is located. A missile also fell outside this area, while the Balad Air Force Base in Salah al-Din Governorate was targeted.
According to the Iraqi Security Media Cell published on its Facebook account, the missiles targeted the yard of celebrations in the Green Zone and the Al-Jadiriya area of Baghdad, in addition to the Balad Air Base in Salah al-Din Governorate, without any casualties.
 
Two rockets landed in the Green Zone, causing two powerful explosions, but they did not result in any injuries. Sources confirmed to Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath that the first missile landed in the celebration square in the middle of the green zone, while the second landed near the Babylon hotel on the opposite side of the American embassy.
As for the third missile, it fell outside the Green Zone, wounding 3 civilians. For its part, Reuters news agency reported that five people were wounded by a shell that landed in the Al-Jadiriyah neighborhood in Baghdad.
In a related context, 3 mortar shells landed on Balad Air Base, which hosts American forces south of Salah al-Din Governorate, wounding 3 Iraqi soldiers, as confirmed by the al-Qaeda leadership.
Two mortar shells landed in the outer perimeter of the base, while another third shell landed on the runway of us, causing material damage to the runway.
In a related context, the militia "Hezbollah of Iraq" announced that the American forces have become "targets" for them from tomorrow, hinting that it will target American forces starting from Sunday evening.
The Iraqi Hezbollah militia demanded that the security forces stay away from the whereabouts of the American forces.
On Friday, a US military official confirmed to Agence France-Presse the arrival of "American military reinforcements to secure" the US embassy in Baghdad, after it was attacked by Iraqi militias last week.
The US military official said that about 750 American soldiers began to arrive at the Washington embassy in Baghdad to secure it. He added, "The soldiers will go to the United States embassy to help the Marines that had arrived in the past days."
It is noteworthy that the American embassy in Baghdad was attacked, last Tuesday, by supporters of Iraqi factions affiliated with the popular crowd and loyal to Iran, including the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades, which lost more than 20 elements in American strikes, last Sunday, to bases in the city of Qaim Iraqi and in Syria. The protesters also burned an embassy gate, cracking a security post and surveillance cameras.
On Wednesday, Marines landed inside the embassy. Later, the US Secretary of Defense, Mark Esber, announced that the Pentagon would immediately send about 750 additional soldiers to the Middle East, in response to the recent events in Iraq.
On their part, US defense officials confirmed on Friday that more than 3,500 additional American soldiers went to the Middle East the day after the killing of the Quds Force commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Soleimani.
The officials said the forces would be sent from the 82nd Airborne Division as a precautionary measure amid escalating threats to US forces in the region.
The officials, who asked not to be named, added that the forces will join about 750 soldiers sent to Kuwait this week.
This, US special envoy to Iran, Brian Hook, confirmed in an article with Al-Arabiya channel yesterday that Soleimani was planning an imminent attack. Hook added that US President Donald Trump removed Soleimani from the battle, and that was a major achievement.
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American plane crashed march west of Iraqi Anbar

Saturday, January 04, 2020 11:10 PM

American plane crashed march west of Iraqi Anbar
A plane crash - archive photo

 

An Iraqi security source said, today, Saturday, that a US plane "marching" west of Anbar, has crashed .

And the Iraqi channel (Alsumaria News) quoted the source - unnamed - as saying that "a marched American plane crashed while flying surveillance missions east of Al-Baghdadi district, Hit district, west of Anbar ."

He added: "This was due to a technical defect," explaining that the crash of the plane did not result in any human casualties .

 
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  • The Green Zone in Baghdad.

    The Green Zone in Baghdad.

 

Baghdad - "Al-Quds" dot com - (Xinhua) - The fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad and Balad Air Base north of the capital, where American forces are present, were attacked, on Saturday evening, with missile attacks, without casualties, according to official and security sources.

The security media cell of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement on Saturday evening that a number of rockets targeted the celebration square in the middle of the Green Zone and the corresponding Jadriya area in Baghdad, and the Balad Air Base in Salahuddin Governorate, north of the capital, without casualties.

The statement indicated that the details will be published later.

A security source in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, who requested anonymity, said earlier today: "We received an official telegram stating that a Katyusha rocket had fallen on the Green Zone in central Baghdad."

He pointed out that the telegram did not give any details about the size of the losses that were caused by the missile's fall.

The Green Zone houses the headquarters of Iraqi government institutions and foreign diplomatic missions, including the US embassy.

Later, the Balad Air Base north of the Iraqi capital, where American forces are present, was attacked on Saturday evening with three mortar shells that fell on warehouses of the Iraqi army without causing casualties, according to Iraqi security sources.

And Iraqi security sources in Salahuddin province said: "Three mortar shells landed on the part, in which the Iraqi army is located at Balad Air Force Base."

The sources pointed out that the shells landed on warehouses belonging to the Iraqi army without causing any casualties, noting that "very little material losses" occurred.

She pointed out that the sirens sounded at the base and the workers went to the shelters.

The sources confirmed that the American forces launched drones over the vicinity of the military base.

The city of Balad is administratively affiliated to Salahuddin Governorate, north of Baghdad.

These attacks are the first of their kind after the American raid, which occurred at dawn on Friday near Baghdad International Airport and resulted in the killing of the commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, General Qassem Soleimani, the deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Organization, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, and six others.

The Iraqi capital, Baghdad, witnessed Saturday the funeral of the bodies of Soleimani, the engineer, and those killed in the American raid, in the presence of an official and popular Iraqi people.

These attacks come at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran, as Iran threatens to "avenge" Soleimani's death.

The Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades threaten to target American bases in Iraq

The Iraqi Hezbollah book threatened, on Saturday, to target American bases in Iraq, calling on the security services to stay away from those bases for a distance of no less than a thousand meters from Sunday.

The brigade's security official, Abu Ali al-Askari, said in a tweet on his account on Twitter: "The brothers in the Iraqi security services should move away from the bases of the American enemy for a distance of no less than a thousand meters, starting from Sunday evening."

He added: "The leaders of the security services must abide by the safety rules of their fighters and not allow them to be made human shields for the invading Crusaders" in a clear threat to target the bases where the American forces are present.

The brigades also sent a message to Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi, asking him to take decisions to remove the American forces from the country.

Al-Askari addressed the President of the Iraqi Parliament, Muhammad Al-Halbousi, in a second tweet, saying, "Our peace to Al-Halbousi, tomorrow and after our eyes on you, carefully monitor what your decisions will lead to regarding the presence of the Crusader occupation forces."

He added: "We thank you for your objection to the killing of our brothers in Al-Qaim. Complete this national position by approving the removal of the invading forces."

On Sunday, the Iraqi parliament is scheduled to hold an emergency session to discuss the recent repercussions that resulted in the killing of the Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, the deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Organization, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, and six others with an American strike near Baghdad International Airport at dawn on Friday.

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Sources: A joint Iraqi-American military coup in the capital, Baghdad

Sunday 1/5 2020
Source: The News
 
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Official sources confirmed that the Iraqi counter-terrorism apparatus is currently conducting a coup d'etat with the suppor t of American forces and that al-Maliki has gone into hiding in an unknown direction

The sources added that the American special forces deployed in Al-Jadiriyah, Al-Harithiya, Baghdad International Airport, and the airport road, in addition to tightening their control over the Green Zone,
and jointly with the Anti-Terrorism Agency besieged an alternative house taken by Nuri al-Maliki, and
information about his arrest was conflicting.
After that, the coalition forces issued an appeal to the people of Baghdad, Al-Karkh, asking them to abide by their homes and not leave them,
and the sources continued that the Marines arrested Faleh Al-Fayyad in the Ghazaliya area in Baghdad, in addition to a number of officials. Enter it through one of the gates.

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US Democratic White House contenders condemn Trump’s strike against Iranian commander, warn of war

 

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200103-us-democratic-white-house-contenders-condemn-trumps-strike-against-iranian-commander-warn-of-war/

 

 

Thanks for your support Bernie.  All you know is how to be Anti-American.  

Why didnt you CONDEMN our Embassy Sacking.  Appeasement garbageman!!!

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Agency: a number of rockets landed in central Baghdad and Balad Air Base

Agency: a number of rockets landed in central Baghdad and Balad Air Base
The green zone in central Baghdad - archive
 January 4, 2020 09:31 PM

Direct: The Security Media Cell in Iraq announced that a number of rockets had landed in the center of the capital Baghdad and Balad Air Base.

The cell said in a statement carried by (conscious) news agency today, Saturday, that "a number of rockets landed in the celebration square and the Jadriyah area behind the Baghdad eyes restaurant."

He added that "a number of missiles also targeted Balad Air Base in Salah al-Din Governorate," stressing that there were no casualties.

The American Ministry of Defense, "The Pentagon," announced Friday morning, the death of the commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani, and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, the leader of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization,  in a missile attack on a drone plane , targeting their car on the road to Baghdad International Airport.

Then the international reactions followed, as official news agencies in Iran announced an emergency meeting of the National Security Council headed by Supreme Leader "Khamenei" to respond to the attack, while  the Iraqi government condemned the attack and considered it an attack on sovereignty

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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques assures President Saleh that Saudi Arabia is keen on stabilizing Iraq

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques assures President Saleh that Saudi Arabia is keen on stabilizing Iraq
King Salman during an archive meeting with the Iraqi president
 January 04, 2020 11:14 PM

 

RIYADH - Mubasher: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud made a phone call today, Saturday, to President Barham Salih, President of the Republic of Iraq .

According to the Saudi Press Agency, "SPA", the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques discussed the developments of events in the region during contact with the Iraqi President.

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques confirmed the kingdom’s keenness on the security and stability of brotherly Iraq, the importance of calm and defusing the crisis in the region, and taking all measures to reduce tension in it .

For his part, the Iraqi president expressed his thanks and appreciation to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and for the kingdom's interest in Iraq’s security and stability, according to the agency .

It is noteworthy that Iraq is witnessing security tensions, following the announcement of the US Department of Defense , "Pentagon" yesterday Friday morning, killing the commander of the Qods Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi engineer "leader of the crowd the popular Iraqi "  in a rocket attack by plane march , targeting their car on the road to the airport Baghdad International Airport .

Then the international reactions followed, as official news agencies in Iran announced an emergency meeting of the National Security Council headed by Supreme Leader "Khamenei" to respond to the attack, while the Iraqi government condemned the attack and considered it an attack on sovereignty . 

Until the security media cell in Iraq announced today, Saturday, that a number of rockets had landed in the center of the capital Baghdad and Balad Air Base .

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The Saudi Crown Prince discusses the latest developments with the Prime Minister of Iraq

The Saudi Crown Prince discusses the latest developments with the Prime Minister of Iraq

Direct: The Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, received a phone call from the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Prince Muhammad bin Salman, this evening, Saturday.

 

A statement of the Iraqi Council of Ministers, published by the Prime Minister's official page on the social networking site "Facebook", reported that the two parties discussed the difficult situations facing Iraq and the region.

The statement added that during the contact, views were exchanged regarding the expected repercussions and the importance of cooperation to mitigate its effects and avoid a comprehensive escalation .

The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques confirmed, in a telephone call to the Iraqi President, today, Saturday, also, that the Kingdom is keen on the security and stability of brotherly Iraq , the importance of calm and defusing the crisis in the region, and taking all measures to reduce tension in it .

Iraq is witnessing security tensions, following the announcement of the US Department of Defense , "Pentagon" yesterday Friday morning, killing the commander of the Qods Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi engineer "leader of the crowd the popular Iraqi  "  in a rocket attack by plane march , targeting their car on the road to Baghdad International Airport .

Then the international reactions followed, as official news agencies in Iran announced an emergency meeting of the National Security Council headed by Supreme Leader "Khamenei" to respond to the attack, while  the Iraqi government condemned the attack and considered it an attack on sovereignty .

Until the security media cell in Iraq announced today, Saturday, that  a number of rockets had landed in the center of the capital Baghdad  and Balad Air Base .

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Soleimani's assassin threw a missile from "Nevada" in America
Sunday 1/5 2020
Source: The News

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Soleimani's assassin threw a missile from "Nevada" in America

 

 

Millions know how the Americans killed Qasim Soleimani and whoever was in a convoy of two cars near Baghdad airport at half past Friday, and much less of them know that the two missiles that targeted him, were in two MQ-9A Reaper drones, launched from the base «many» A distant 1100 kilometers in diameter from the place where one of the missiles tore down his Toyota SAU and left the bodies of its occupants on the road.

As for General Soleimani’s real murderer, from flesh and blood, he is known only to a few American soldiers, and he managed to do it, according to what Al Arabiya published. Net »The murder scenario, while he is sitting comfortably on a seat at an air base, far in the far southwestern American, more than 11,700 kilometers from Baghdad, is the Creech Air Force Base in Nevada , and it was half past two in the afternoon, local time, when he inspected a picture of the procession that was broadcast to him The two planes.

And the person responsible for the killing began to deal with the television picture electronically, according to what his work required, the most important of which was pressing the buttons of a device that transmits orders to the plane from the base, and by throwing each car with the AGM-114 Hellfire missile guided by his laser or radar model, and he wanted it in an easy way that appears in the displayed video as someone who plays a game Video Game is normal, but this time its weapon was a missile produced by a pen-like in 1971 as an original armor, and then developed it into the most dangerous weapon of difficult assassination in the world.

The missile's biography is short, as its length is one meter and 60 centimeters, its range is 8000 meters, and it is like a barrel with a diameter of only 18 centimeters, but its price is 117 thousand dollars, and it can be launched from any platform, according to what was published by Al-Arabiya. Net "who is reported by" Online "and notified him that he is traveling at a speed of 1600 km per hour from" Drone "unmanned drone, which surprised the target of the killing and threw them with a head equipped with what weighed 8 kilograms of explosives, incendiary and destroyed together.

As for the one sitting in a seat to deal with the path, its targets and its weapon, radar connects it to the place it is heading to photograph the target when it reaches, then deals with what he sees in the image to determine the target by laser as well, and at the required moment he gives an order to the missile directed from his laser or radar device, to end With such ease, a mission can be one of the most difficult tasks in the traditional way, including car bombing, for the killing of innocents, and in the graphic published below, which is from the British newspaper "The Times", an explanation of how Soleimani spent in a cheap way and from the easiest.

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24 minutes ago, yota691 said:

Official sources confirmed that the Iraqi counter-terrorism apparatus is currently conducting a coup d'etat with the suppor t of American forces and that al-Maliki has gone into hiding in an unknown direction

The sources added that the American special forces deployed in Al-Jadiriyah, Al-Harithiya, Baghdad International Airport, and the airport road, in addition to tightening their control over the Green Zone,
and jointly with the Anti-Terrorism Agency besieged an alternative house taken by Nuri al-Maliki, and
information about his arrest was conflicting.
After that, the coalition forces issued an appeal to the people of Baghdad, Al-Karkh, asking them to abide by their homes and not leave them,
and the sources continued that the Marines arrested Faleh Al-Fayyad in the Ghazaliya area in Baghdad, in addition to a number of officials. Enter it through one of the gates.

 

Oh hell yes,  now we are talking.  

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13 minutes ago, tigergorzow said:

Please get that "RAT" and shoot to kill that P.O.S.

 

:lmao:   :lmao:   :lmao:

 

Person Of Shame

 

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:twothumbs: I Agree, TigerGorZow, AND The Very Best Of Your 2020 To You AND ALL DinarVets!!! :tiphat:

 

Go Moola Nova!

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1 minute ago, Floridian said:

Is this true?  Can you launch a missile from Nevada and kill somebody in Baghdad with such precision?

 

"Soleimani's assassin threw a missile from "Nevada" in America"

 

:backflip:   :backflip:   :backflip:

 

:twothumbs: Pretty Sure The Command Center Is In Nevada, Floridian, AND The Very Best Of Your 2020 To You, TOO!!! :tiphat:

 

Likely, the Command Center in Nevada has satellite communications links to the local drone that delivered the Hell Fire Missile.

 

Go Moola Nova!

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2 minutes ago, Synopsis said:

 

:lmao:   :lmao:   :lmao:

 

Person Of Shame

 

:lmao:   :lmao:   :lmao:

 

:twothumbs: I Agree, TigerGorZow, AND The Very Best Of Your 2020 To You AND ALL DinarVets!!! :tiphat:

 

Go Moola Nova!

:pirateship:

SYN,,  Looking forward to 2020 to be the YEAR we meet & celebrate the RV / RI OF THE IQD with all of my DV FRIENDS ... 😁😁👍👍👌👌🙏🙏

 

JUST DO IT!!!!!!!!! 

 

 

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Just now, tigergorzow said:

SYN,,  Looking forward to 2020 to be the YEAR we meet & celebrate the RV / RI OF THE IQD with all of my DV FRIENDS ... 😁😁👍👍👌👌🙏🙏

 

JUST DO IT!!!!!!!!! 

 

 

 

:twothumbs: Oh, YEAH!!!, TigerGorZow, May 2020 (early, of course) Be Our Year!!! :tiphat:

 

Go Moola Nova!

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Rockets fired at Baghdad’s Green Zone and a U.S. air base Saturday after funeral march for Iranian general

 

No immediate reports of casualties from Baghdad rocket fire

 

Published: Jan 4, 2020 3:54 p.m. ET

 

 

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/rockets-fired-at-baghdads-green-zone-and-a-us-air-base-saturday-after-funeral-march-for-iranian-general-2020-01-04

 

 

 

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