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2024-02-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

The United States has NOW started retaliatory strikes, Reuters reports.

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Posted by DarthVader 2024-02-02 16:20|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [27 views ] Top
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#1 ...Fight's on.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-02-02 16:26|| 2024-02-02 16:26|| Front Page Top

#2 CENTCOM says its forces conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups.

U.S. military forces struck more than 85 targets, with numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from United States.

The airstrikes employed more than 125 precision munitions.

The facilities that were struck included command and control operations, centers, intelligence centers, rockets, and missiles, and unmanned aired vehicle storages, and logistics and munition supply chain facilities of militia groups and their IRGC sponsors who facilitated attacks against U.S. and Coalition forces.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-02-02 16:40|| 2024-02-02 16:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Figures.
Transported a Bone by road through area recently, got everyone-a-fluttered, "How cool is that?"

Yeah. Cool.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-02 17:02|| 2024-02-02 17:02|| Front Page Top

#4 After the required notification period(via Politico) to get the Right People out of harms way.

Posted by Ululating Platypus 2024-02-02 17:26|| 2024-02-02 17:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Make Syria and Iraq suffer until they hand over all the iranian proxy fighters.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-02 17:28|| 2024-02-02 17:28|| Front Page Top

#6 US launches airstrikes on 85 targets linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard in Iraq and Syria: Pentagon drops 125 bombs in retaliation for deadly drone strike that killed three American soldiers in Jordan

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-02 17:34|| 2024-02-02 17:34|| Front Page Top

#7 WSJ reports Jordanian aircraft are also slated to join in U.S. operation and have been assigned targets.

Jordan’s role is unusual and is intended to demonstrate solidarity with the U.S. following the drone strike on Tower 22, an outpost in Jordan near the Syrian border.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-02-02 18:18|| 2024-02-02 18:18|| Front Page Top

#8 The Bryen/Asia Times take on this...

Iraq and Iran were complicit in the Tower 22 attack

Make what you will of it. It certainly isn't the view of the Biden Administration.

Posted by Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.) 2024-02-02 20:03|| 2024-02-02 20:03|| Front Page Top

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