US forces in Iraq

Starting a new thread as the old one re ISIS isn't really on subject anymore.

This looks to be hotting up now

IWN
@A7_Mirza
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#Iraq
Drone Attack on Ain Al Asad Airbase

Iraqi groups attacked #US troops at #AinAlAsad Airbase with unknown number of suicide drones.

The attack took place in the early hours of Thursday morning. No further details have been released about the attack.

Whoever did this its a very disruptive move. Killing a man's family and not him means revenge will be fierce.

Lebanese News and Updates
@LebUpdate
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3h
Now: A US hit team killed the family (wife and 3 children) of a PMF commander in Baghdad.

The commander, Ahmad Abdul-Mutaleb Abdul-Razak is injured and hospitalized.


Within Syria
@WithinSyriaBlog
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3h
Someone just attacked the family of a PMU commander in Baghdad. Five of the family, including three children, were killed ... Not sure who would do that, but that was a very bad, bad call ... Hope this is not true.

Looks like it was an attempt on the life of the PMU's 45th Brigade commander. It may be a failed US intelligence operation, less likely an attack by ISIS because this was in Baghdad center. Someone in the US may have ended his career.

Apparently, the commander house was raided by unidentified gunmen. His children, aged 14, 8 and 7, were shot and killed by the attacker along with his wife.

Revenge can ice cold and very unexpected


Spriter
@spriter99880
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Iran - Commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier General Ismail Qaani: When necessary, we will provide the ground for revenge against the Americans in their own homes, and by people close to them, without being present.

Welp, this isnt gonna end well.
Looks like Biden's saigon is gonna hapen again.
The question is when, my money's on 2023.

The U.S forces are for an long time in an extremely vulnerable position.

These are not the times anymore where the U.S was present in full force.
There is not much left to project force with from the U.S position.

However, they do present an large target.

In the U.S Millitary experience, nothing can hurt them.
How can anyone?. surely, as they span the globe. Without any real resistance millitarily on the field of battle since the cold war.
This mindset of being invincible is drilled in from the start.

This is of course an disconnect to the reality of war.
War does not fit to neat boundaries or perceptions.

The price for mistakes is paid in lives and blood.

An good demo of the U.S being vulnerable is by Iran's ballistic missile launch a year ago,
No defensive measures, and being completely subjected to Ballistic missile bombardment.



In this 60 minute propaganda piece they try to spin it like the U.S was in control.
Well,....they where not. listen carefully to the soldiers and what they say.
Johnson being propably the most honest one of all of them.
He understood his officers message of "they are fueling 25 medium range missiles targeting us and we may not survive" very well.

I am not sure if anyone told Jonson,..he is not only suffering from PTSD but from brain injury as well by blast damage.
It is not his fault.
These weapons, much like any weapon that generates an large blast like thermobaric or heavy bombs.
Generate an blastwave that goes trough anything and interacts with everything physically.
It can actually kill you if intense enough, without you ever being exposed to the explosion itself.



Point here being, The U.S acts like it is the sole ruler on this earth. They do not care if a few thousand of their troops are in harm's way when they assasinate someone with an drone.
Or start another war.
Soldiers are just an registration number to the american empire. Plenty more from where they came from.

The blunt reality is: they are a long way from home, surrounded by dessert and people they made sure to hate their guts in the past decades of foreign intervention.
And they are no longer perceived as a threat, but an tumor that needs to be removed from their lands.

Iran demonstrated very well that their weapons have an high degree of accuracy, they can strike any middle-east target at will without putting their troops anywhere near their target.

The U.S is done in the middle east, the exact thing they tried to prevent. an more or less Syria-Iraq-Iran alliance has happened exactly because the U.S instigated and meddles with all of them.
Normally none of these would have come together under normal circumstances. But they are all united with their dislike to the U.S and Israel.
With Hezbollah running around in all countries becomming an actual army that employs M1 battle tanks and all..

kind of ironic really when you think it over.

Garry is right with the U.S tendency to over-react on things.
But i am curious to see how the U.S is going to redestribute their forces over the world.
They have suffered from heavy troop shortage ever since the iraq-iran campaigns and it has not got better.

I bet they first pull out of the middle east to pull their forces to Taiwan/China.
Then if that heats up, they will pull out of Europe as well to bolster the Pacific.

They can not be everywhere at once, and when it comes down to it. I think the U.S will put all their cards against China.
Either that, or they risk losing everything all at once.

Someone striking US bases in Iraq...
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1502769728917540865?cxt=HHwWgsC49efG9NopAAAA

https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1502776080339451908/photo/1

https://twitter.com/spriter99880/status/1502779818781384706

Rumors that the missiles (Fateh-110) came directly from Tabriz, Iran.

An unknown amount of missiles thus far. Allegedly >=10. Conflicting reports on what the target was.

Might be a response to the bombing in Syria, which killed several IRCG members.

Looks like some kind of free-for-all is starting in the world though. There goes US hopes of getting some sort of oil deal from Iran

nero wrote:https://twitter.com/spriter99880/status/1502779818781384706

Rumors that the missiles (Fateh-110) came directly from Tabriz, Iran.

An unknown amount of missiles thus far. Allegedly >=10. Conflicting reports on what the target was.

Might be a response to the bombing in Syria, which killed several IRCG members.

Looks like some kind of free-for-all is starting in the world though. There goes US hopes of getting some sort of oil deal from Iran

Probably not Israel but I'll go with revenge served very old and cold.

JohninMK wrote:Probably not Israel but I'll go with revenge served very old and cold.

There are reports they've hit all Mossad bases within Ebril, Iraq. It's all speculation so far though.

I wonder where American air defenses are

nero wrote:

JohninMK wrote:Probably not Israel but I'll go with revenge served very old and cold.

There are reports they've hit all Mossad bases within Ebril, Iraq. It's all speculation so far though.

I wonder where American air defenses are

Wondered if it was against Israel with a message to the US myself. Time will reveal.

In other news. Ft Hood covid deaths have spiked by 10000%

Iraq demands that the US leave the country immediately

Another Niger-France situation.  

After a massive missile strike this morning on ain Al-Asad base, Iraq's PM wants U.S.  troops out of his country fast, and is reportedly blocking any new troops from entering.

Al-Sudani: "Let's agree on a time frame that is, honestly, quick, so that they don't remain long and the attacks keep happening."

Iraq is full of illegal US bases that the US refuses to withdraw despite official Iraqi demands.

http://t.me/megatron_ron


Amber
@Amber18866270
BREAKING

In an unprecedented move, Iraq has refused the entry of additional US forces into its territory.

The start of negotiations to remove US forces are imminent, says Iraqi army spokesman

Mikhail Ulyanov
@Amb_Ulyanov
The US doesn’t have a habit to withdraw its troops from other countries at their request or demand. They do it only if they can’t keep their troops any longer, like it happened in Afghanistan.

Ballistic Missiles Hit US Troops at Base in Iraq, US Central Command Admits

US forces occupying Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base were targeted and injured, base infrastructure clearly damaged during ballistic missile attack carried out by Iraqi-based militias.

Via Reuters (https://reuters.com/world/us-personnel-suffer-minor-injuries-iraq-base-attack-us-official-2024-01-20/):

The U.S. military's Central Command said in a statement that the base was hit by multiple ballistic missiles and rockets fired by Iranian-backed militants from inside Iraq. The statement did not confirm the extent of any U.S. injuries but said personnel were being evaluated for traumatic brain injury.

US missile defenses failed to stop all missiles. No mention in the article is made of the type of defenses the base had, but it has been previously reported (https://defensenews.com/land/2020/04/13/patriot-missile-defense-systems-now-active-in-iraq-say-us-officials/) the base is protected by the Patriot system.

Reuters:

Offering a sense of the scale of the attack, Central Command said most of the missiles were intercepted though others hit the base.

It is interesting Reuters avoids naming the missiles as Patriots.

Attacks like these will only further stretch/expose as inadequate US air defense resources already disappearing rapidly and performing poorly in places like Ukraine and previously, Saudi Arabia.

The US occupation of the Middle East is strategically and politically untenable, just as its proxy war in Ukraine or its growing confrontation with China, yet Washington has only one gear - forward.

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Looks like the AD was swamped by incoming.

OSINTdefender
@sentdefender

U.S. Central Command has now Confirmed that Al-Asad Air Base in Western Iraq was Targeted earlier today by Iranian-Backed Forces utilizing several Theatre Ballistic Missiles and Rockets, with a Majority of them being Intercepted by the MIM-104 “Patriot” Surface-to-Air Missile Battery at the Base; however, the Munitions which did Impact the Base caused Damage and Injuries concurrent with a Traumatic Brain Injuries to several U.S. Seevicemembers and Serious Injuries to 1 Member of the Iraqi Security Forces.

Just got headaches like the last time.  


S p r i n t e r
@Sprinter99800
The New York Times quoted Pentagon officials:

At least 70 American soldiers have been injured in resistance attacks on American bases in Iraq and Syria.


The organization "CENTCOM" announced on Sunday morning that they are conducting examinations and assessing the amount of brain damage inflicted on a number of American soldiers during the rocket attack on the "Ain al-Asad" base on Saturday evening.

In this statement, Centcom claimed that the American air defense intercepted most of the missiles, but an Iraqi soldier was injured in this attack.


British newspaper "The Guardian": The U.S. military's assessment of the attack targeting the "Ain al-Asad" base is more serious than the Iraqi narrative

I guess the US forces , have it coming , since they took sides in favour of Israel against Palestinians . They were simply not content with supplying ammo by ships , and had to intercept the axis fighters in Iraq and Syria and Yemen missiles . They are not neutral . Their bleeding Hearts comments about using smaller bombs to lessen the damage is indicative of their mindset , while bland statements about the two state solution , no doubt made to appease the Arab street . Winning the Battle and loosing the war .

Looks like the US may finally be viewing their sitting duck units spread across Iraq/Syria as a potential limiter on their potential actions in the ME so will start pulling them out.

No doubt they will at the same time restart their ISIS operations, so they can claim 'look what happens when we pulled out' and 'we were successful at subduing ISIS'.

Amid attacks on its bases, the United States wants to escape from Iraq

The Pentagon said it is beginning negotiations with Baghdad on reducing the number of its military in Iraq and ending the military mission of the American coalition.

Previously, against the backdrop of attacks by pro-Iranian forces on US military targets, the Prime Minister of Iraq called for the withdrawal of American troops from the country. Now the Iraqi Foreign Ministry reports the success of negotiations with the United States on the withdrawal of its troops from the country.

http://t.me/RVvoenkor

"bilateral cooperation" So no 'coalition' forces, just US. The US is like a tick, you can remove its body but the head stays put.


S p r i n t e r
@Sprinter99800

🪖 The head of the Pentagon confirmed that the US will start negotiations in the coming days to replace the "coalition military presence" in Iraq with "bilateral cooperation".

As early as 2020, the Iraqi authorities demanded that all foreign troops leave the country's territory