BRKG ***CONFIRMED... Iran's Qassem Soleimani killed in US airstrike*** (i.e. BUCKLE UP!) - Iran counterattacks

Dennis Olson

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jward said:
I know. So which is most likely to occur, (deepstate hail mary or presidential powers enactment?) and even though CoG is legally sound, and some (you!) Would say long over due... It looks and smells awful and as an abuse of power to the masses...how would we come out the other side of that?!
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I think you should stop clutching your pearls.
 
et2

et2

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EMICT said:
'Omar threatens to 'step in and stop' Trump following Soleimani killing'

If Hezbollah sleeper cells are activated in the US, Omar and Tlaib may not have much of a district to represent when all is said and done. I believe there has to be a sufficient population for representation.
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Link please?
 
jward

jward

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Ya have to be more plain spoken than that. I hail from the show me state, n need concrete examples and plain talk. Have scads of pearls, though rarely worn lately, and never clutched...
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

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jward said:
I know. So which is most likely to occur, (deepstate hail mary or presidential powers enactment?) and even though CoG is legally sound, and some (you!) Would say long over due... It looks and smells awful and as an abuse of power to the masses...how would we come out the other side of that?!
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This post reads as semi-hysterical. That’s what I mean.
 
jward

jward

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Dennis Olson said:
This post reads as semi-hysterical. That’s what I mean.
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Ah yeah, watching the total abdication of RoL, and knowing that "they" are rabid turds fighting for their political, maybe literal, lives, gives me some definite OMG moments. They really do want us dead, ya know... haven't ya heard that?! : )
 
jward

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ELINT News

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#BREAKING: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps announces the killing of senior members of the IRGC accompanying Soleimani:
1- General Hussein Jaafari Naya
2- Colonel Shahroud Muzaffari Niya
3- Major Hadi Tarmi
4-Captain Waheed Zamanian
 
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Used Camels

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The BIG question mark at this point ... how China and Russia will react as this thing escalates. The joint naval exercise involving Iran, Russia, and China that ended just earlier this week (see cartoon below) was said to have been a major development in the power structure in the Middle East.

I'm catching a whiff of something Biblical on the grill.

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CTFIREBATTCHIEF

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Turret Buster said:
Russia will kindly sit this one out.
They have nothing to gain, and plenty to lose.
They will be collecting every bit of metadata they can get their hands on though, with regards to any sort of weaponry we may or may not use against the current Iranian regime. I bet their also working overtime to figure out just how we got so lucky. Unless...they were the one's who told us. :hmm:
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Yes, there is that. And didn't we give Putin some info recently that stopped a terrorist attack in St Petersburg? Maybe he just returned the favor
 
jed turtle

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jward said:
Tis their response i think that poses the most risk to us. A small nuke in the usa and its over for trump, and theyd kill us in a heartbeat for a lot less
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imho, I think you are vastly underestimating the temper of both Trump and his supporters, as well as our ability to remove any future Iranian threat to anyone in the future...
 
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Border Collie Dad

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I think many here are making the mistake that a war with Iran will be fought with armies facing each other and our military superiority will bring this to a quick end.
There will be no quick end.

This will be fought over here in the homeland as well as over there and throughout the Middle East.

And the Deep State doesn't want it over quickly.
No profit in that.

We can't defeat a handful of Afghanis

Once things start popping here, you can kiss what few freedoms you have left goodbye.

This war will be different like the difference between WWI and WWII
 
greysage

greysage

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I don't think we are going to see much out of this for the average American other than a bunch of posts on the internet and talking heads on TV saying the standard stuff we've heard for decades.
Joe Public isn't going to notice a thing and probably some more middle-eastern high level bad guys are going to bite the dust. This will make President Trump more popular.
 
jward

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jed turtle said:
imho, I think you are vastly underestimating the temper of both Trump and his supporters, as well as our ability to remove any future Iranian threat to anyone in the future...
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Hmm. Irans' just a tool, imo, that they're clobbering us with at the moment. My concern is how much of the world they're willing to burn down around their ears out of spite when they finally face that they cannot win this larger overarching war we are in... But yeah! They better get us all the first time, coz people have had their fill and are restless and ready to roll! Imho.
 
Lilbitsnana

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David Cenciotti ‏Verified account @ cencio4 3m3 minutes ago



Four KC-135s have landed at Aviano AB this morning. This is interesting. Deploying to a Forward Operating Base to support ops in the ME or preparing to drag some “chicks”?
 
Lilbitsnana

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1213091468660920320
View: https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1213091468660920320


Aurora Intel @ AuroraIntel 1m1 minute ago



#USAF C17's over Europe again, heavy movement underway, again.

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Border Collie Dad said:
I think many here are making the mistake that a war with Iran will be fought with armies facing each other and our military superiority will bring this to a quick end.
There will be no quick end.

This will be fought over here in the homeland as well as over there and throughout the Middle East.

And the Deep State doesn't want it over quickly.
No profit in that.

We can't defeat a handful of Afghanis

Once things start popping here, you can kiss what few freedoms you have left goodbye.

This war will be different like the difference between WWI and WWII
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When you put politicians and Yes men in charge of war fighting its gonna drag on
 
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Squid

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So, who saw this coming?

The Russians? Chinese? Certainly not the Iranians. Seems even Israel may not have known.

Of all the things Trump is accused of being, predictable is not on that list.

This is somewhat destabilizing but mainly to our enemies and that may not be a bad thing when so many expect bluster and strongly worded memo’s.

Iran is the main reason so many Americans were killed and wounded by advanced IED’s.

These cowardly thugs got what was due, rest in Pesto!
 
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jward said:

ELINT News
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#BREAKING: Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps announces the killing of senior members of the IRGC accompanying Soleimani:
1- General Hussein Jaafari Naya
2- Colonel Shahroud Muzaffari Niya
3- Major Hadi Tarmi
4-Captain Waheed Zamanian
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So we know that Soleimani flew from Beirut to Baghdad. And in the convoy there were four other senior members of the revolutionary guard.
So let me ask you . . . do you believe there are no direct flights from Beirut to Tehran? How far do you think it is?
Its 900 miles. It is an hour and a half flight. It costs $300 US.
What ****ing business does an Iranian General and his staff have in Baghdad? The same business they have in Beirut - military. Their business is military.
What gave an Iranian General the idea he could simply waltz around Beirut and do whatever he wanted?
Eight years of Obama sucking his dick.
 
Illini Warrior

Illini Warrior

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alllll kinds of saber rattling - and it'll be just that >>> Iran needs to run their game by their limited checkbook$$$$ - they can't afford to get their airforce and navy wiped out - the US could end both within hours ...

the big matza ball the US & Israel is looking to hit is the nuke program - there's stealth bombers sitting with the special penetrator bombs racked up >>>> there won't be any coming back once the US hits that ....

overall Iran needs to watch their own domestic backs - ANTIFA cuts both ways - the Iranian version wants to cut the iman's throats ...
 
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jward

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raven said:
So we know that Soleimani flew from Beirut to Baghdad. And in the convoy there were four other senior members of the revolutionary guard.
So let me ask you . . . do you believe there are no direct flights from Beirut to Tehran? How far do you think it is?
Its 900 miles. It is an hour and a half flight. It costs $300 US.
What ****ing business does an Iranian General and his staff have in Baghdad? The same business they have in Beirut - military. Their business is military.
What gave an Iranian General the idea he could simply waltz around Beirut and do whatever he wanted?
Eight years of Obama sucking his dick.
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Hey, they saw Baghdadi finally die, they were all warned of our intent to do surgical strikes, they knew that an embassy is our soil and an attack on US.....but chose to listen to Kerry and the other dim wit dimocrats, and CNNs! Spin instead? Now they're dead. Thats consequences following actions, and bout damn time, imo!
 
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Watch the Temple Mount. If Iran wants to ignite an apocalyptic firestorm and surround themselves with allies, they will put the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the crosshairs and make it look like Jews did it.
 
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Soleimani Killing Raises Fears of Reprisals on Oil Infrastructure; Crude prices rally after a U.S. airstrike kills Qassem Soleimani, leader of the foreign wing of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Friday, January 03, 2020, 6:51 AM ET
By David Hodari
Wall Street Journal

Crude prices shot higher Friday after a U.S. airstrike killed a high-ranking Iranian military leader , with traders fearful of retaliatory attacks from Tehran on Middle Eastern energy infrastructure.

Brent crude, the global benchmark, was up 4.9% at $69.43 a barrel on London's ICE Futures exchange, its highest level since the September drone attacks on key Saudi Arabian oil facilities. On the New York Mercantile Exchange , West Texas Intermediate futures rose 4.5% to $64.02 a barrel, their highest level since May.

Those sharp gains came after President Trump ordered a strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani , leader of the foreign wing of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , declared three days of mourning for Mr. Soleimani's death and warned that a "hard revenge awaits criminals."

"The rhetoric is one of severe retaliation from Iran , and I'm expecting the market to drift higher as tensions continue to rise," said Edward Marshall, a commodities trader at investment firm Global Risk Management.

Given the history of conflict with U.S.-backed allies in the area—attacks on Saudi Arabia's facilities in September sparked large scale disruptions—Iran may respond to the attack by targeting regional energy infrastructure, analysts said.

"In terms of what this means for Saudi Arabia, they'll be extremely nervous today. They'd love to have Iran confronted but they won't want to be on the front line," said Charles Hollis, a former U.K. diplomat to Saudi Arabia and Iran, and managing director of geopolitical risk consulting firm Falanx Assynt.

"[For Iran], to attack a proxy nation after a direct attack from the U.S. is an easy option, but I'm almost certain the U.S. will have reinforced defenses there," Mr. Hollis added.

Washington and Riyadh have both accused Iran of being behind September's attacks on Saudi oil-processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais, as well as attacks on other Saudi energy infrastructure and oil tankers in and around the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran has denied many of those accusations.

Tensions between Washington and Tehran began rising in 2018, when the U.S. pulled out of a deal limiting Iran's nuclear program, opting instead to reintroduce sanctions on the country. Iran's oil exports have dropped sharply, throwing its economy into a tailspin.

With the recent tensions in Iraq, oil watchers are on alert for disruptions to the flow of supply from one of the region's most influential producers.

"If a conflict is fought in Iraq, given Iraq's role as the second largest [ Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ] producer, and the amount of oil coming out of the country, the market will be very nervous for sure," said Giovanni Staunovo, commodity analyst at UBS 's Chief Investment Office.

Seasonally thin trading contributed to oil's sharp Friday gains, with many traders yet to return from holiday.

"There's lower liquidity in the market. We will have participants back at their desks on Monday and that's probably also why we've seen such a big increase in prices," Mr. Staunovo said.

Traders were also awaiting U.S. Department of Energy data, due later Friday, which could fuel oil's rally if crude stocks prove to be lower than forecast.

Write to David Hodari at David.Hodari@dowjones.com

Soleimani Killing Raises Fears of Reprisals on Oil Infrastructure
 
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