War Iran-United States Military Crisis of 2020 - US Baghdad embassy under siege, rocket fire in US Baghdad green zone, Ukrainian Airlines flight 752 crash, and more!

January 10th:
Exclusive: Informants in Iraq, Syria helped U.S. kill Iran's Soleimani - sources (archive)(post)
Iraqi Shia cleric whose militia killed American troops says crisis is over following Iran strike and Trump speech (archive)(post)
Iraqi PM tells US to decide mechanism for troop withdrawal (archive)(post)
Mike Pence says Congress might 'compromise sources and methods' if fully briefed on the Soleimani strike (archive)(post)
Unidentified planes hit Iraqi militiamen in Syria, killing 8 (archive)(post)
Iraq: The Master Of Mayhem Meets A Missile (archive)(post)
Eliminating Qasem Soleimani was Donald Trump’s Middle East farewell letter (archive)(post)
Iran uses BULLDOZERS to clear debris from plane crash site while accusing US of ‘big lie’ that they shot it down (archive)(post)
Swiss Back Channel Helped Defuse U.S.-Iran Crisis (post)

January 11th:
UKRAINIAN AIRCRAFT WAS BROUGHT DOWN IN IRAN DUE TO 'HUMAN ERROR' (archive)(post)
Iran minister says 'human error' caused by 'US adventurism' led to deadly crash of Ukrainian jetliner (archive)(post)
Ukrainian aircraft was brought down in Iran due to 'human error' (archive)(post)
Trump, at Ohio rally, says Democrats would have leaked Soleimani attack plans (archive)(post)
The Atlantic's David Frum blames Trump for downing of plane in Iran, deaths of 176 (archive)(post)
Associated Press changes ‘shockingly bad’ headline about Soleimani, Ukrainian plane crash after backlash (archive)(post)
GOP Rep. Doug Collins apologizes for saying Democrats are 'in love with terrorists' (archive)(post)
Iran demands West 'show findings' as new video reveals aircraft was struck before fiery crash (archive)(post)
Warren town hall interrupted by angry protester accusing her of ‘siding with terrorists’ (archive)(post)
Trump administration announces new sanctions on Iran (archive)(post)
Prepare For the Worst From Iran Cyber Attacks, As DHS Issues Warning: Experts (archive)(post)
Trump tells Fox News' Laura Ingraham 'four embassies' were targeted in imminent threat from Iran (archive)(post)
Trump tweets support for Iranian protesters as they demand Khamenei quit (archive)(post)
Trump warns Iran against ‘another massacre’ as protests flare over downed jet (archive)(post)

January 12th:
Trump tweet in Farsi 'the most liked Persian tweet' in history of Twitter (archive)(post)
Iraq warned to keep US troops or risk financial blow-WSJ (archive)(post)
Iran arrests UK ambassador in what Britain calls ‘flagrant violation of international law’ (archive)(post)

January 13th:
Trump authorized Soleimani's killing 7 months ago, with conditions (archive)(post)

edit: This is a WIP. All links are posted in the order they appear in the thread, not in chronological order of their publication.


---Original OP before the merge---
Iraqi supporters of Iran-backed militia attack US Embassy
https://apnews.com/75228a8a607a44863b57021ac33264dc (http://archive.vn/ljm9Y)

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA12 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AP) — Dozens of angry Iraqi Shiite militia supporters broke into the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad on Tuesday after smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, prompting tear gas and sounds of gunfire.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw flames rising from inside the compound and at least three U.S. soldiers on the roof of the main building inside embassy. It was not clear what caused the fire at the reception area near the parking lot of the compound. A man on a loudspeaker urged the mob not to enter the compound, saying: “The message was delivered.”

The embassy attack followed deadly U.S. airstrikes on Sunday that killed 25 fighters of the Iran-backed militia in Iraq, the Kataeb Hezbollah. The U.S. military said it was in retaliation for last week’s killing of an American contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base that it had blamed on the militia.

Dozens of protesters marched inside the compound after smashing the gate used by cars to enter the embassy. The protesters, many in militia uniform, stopped in a corridor after about 5 meters (16 feet), and were only about 200 meters away from the main building. Half a dozen U.S. soldiers were seen on the roof of the main building, their guns were pointed at the protesters.

Smoke from the tear gas rose in the area, and at least three of the protesters appeared to have difficulties breathing. It wasn’t immediately known whether the embassy staff had remained inside the main building.

The protesters hanged a poster on the wall: “America is an aggressor.”

Shouting “Down, Down USA,” the crowd tried to push inside the embassy grounds, hurling water and stones over its walls. They raised yellow militia flags and taunted the embassy’s security staff who remained behind the glass windows in the gates’ reception area. They sprayed graffiti on the wall and windows in red in support of the Kataeb Hezbollah militia: “Closed in the name of the resistance.”

Hundreds of angry protesters, some in militia uniforms, set up tents outside the embassy. As tempers rose, the mob set fire to three trailers used by security guards along the embassy wall.

No one was immediately reported hurt in the rampage and security staff had withdrawn to inside the embassy earlier, soon after protesters gathered outside.

The U.S. attack — the largest targeting an Iraqi state-sanctioned militia in recent years — and the subsequent calls by the militia for retaliation, represent a new escalation in the proxy war between the U.S. and Iran playing out in the Middle East.

Tuesday’s attempted embassy storming took place after mourners and supporters held funerals for the militia fighters killed in a Baghdad neighborhood, after which they marched on to the heavily fortified Green Zone and kept walking till they reached the sprawling U.S. Embassy there.

AP journalists then saw the crowd as they tried to scale the walls of the embassy, in what appeared to be an attempt to storm it, shouting “Down, down USA!” and “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday’s strikes send the message that the U.S. will not tolerate actions by Iran that jeopardize American lives.

The Iranian-backed Iraqi militia had vowed Monday to retaliate for the U.S. military strikes. The attack and vows for revenge raised concerns of new attacks that could threaten American interests in the region.

The U.S. attack also outraged both the militias and the Iraqi government, which said it will reconsider its relationship with the U.S.-led coalition — the first time it has said it will do so since an agreement was struck to keep some U.S. troops in the country. It called the attack a “flagrant violation” of its sovereignty.

In a partly televised meeting Monday, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi told Cabinet members that he had tried to stop the U.S. operation “but there was insistence” from American officials.

The U.S. military said “precision defensive strikes” were conducted against five sites of Kataeb Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq and Syria. The group, which is a separate force from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, operates under the umbrella of the state-sanctioned militias known collectively as the Popular Mobilization Forces. Many of them are supported by Iran.

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[LetThemEatCake]

Also just as a point of information, the 3 Germans on board the plane were actually Iranian Asylum seekers, who were so terrified of Iran, they decided to fly back to spend the winter there.

Haha. Well then, that's 3 fewer people I have to feel horrible for this week, them.

This 'OMG I WILL BE TORTURED! KILLED! RAPED BY DONKEYS! ENSLAVED! MADE INTO SOAP! GIVE ME ASYLUM PLZ NOW KTHNX!' routine is all too routinely followed by 'AND NOW I RETURN FOR A NICE, RELAXING HOLIDAY WITH MY NEWFOUND INCOME IN THE HOMELAND I ESCAPED FROM, LOLZ'. routine. Should instantly be cause to shred their right to remain and trigger instant deportation when they return to the host nation. I mean, it's too much to expect a military fuck-up that turns them into charcoal every week, deportation is an easier and more civilized solution.

 

[Pinot Pierrot]

Tell him to get fucked from me. I'm partially left. It's not you or I getting brainwashed by the media. It's him who has his eyes closed.

What does he say today, now that Justin Trudeau of all fucking people has come out and said Iran shot it down?

Aw, don't be mean. He's basically my barometer for the average guy.

He received the news I texted him quite gracefully, though he still joked that I got my tinfoil hat up and ready. I told him that it was made of aluminum.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Thanks, Bellingcat


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About a 12 second delay between impact, and the sound reaching the person recording. So about two and a half miles away.

 

[Arctic Fox]

Aw, don't be mean. He's basically my barometer for the average guy.

He received the news I texted him quite gracefully, though he still joked that I got my tinfoil hat up and ready. I told him that it was made of aluminum.

Aluminum is a superior product, and easy to recycle. For the progressive conspiracy theorist.

 

[Keystone]

Thanks, Bellingcat


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From the impact flash to the sound reaching the ground where that guy was standing was 11-ish seconds. I imagine those with enough autism or superb mathematical skills could use all the information currently available to pinpoint which SAM site near the airport fired the rocket.

 

[Sped Xing]

How's that one saying go? "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Is it possible glow niggers blew it up? Certainly. But these camel fuckers have conclusively proven themselves to not be that smart once they run into someone unwilling to abide their bullshit, and that was before they shot the plane down.

I think that saying ignores the fact malice is commonplace, and not mutually exclusive with incompetence.

 

[WonderWino]

Aw, don't be mean. He's basically my barometer for the average guy.

He received the news I texted him quite gracefully, though he still joked that I got my tinfoil hat up and ready. I told him that it was made of aluminum.

Pfft.....tinfoil hat? Those are for amateurs. Tinfoil trailers are how you keep the government from reading your brainwaves these days

 

[theshep]

Pfft.....tinfoil hat? Those are for amateurs. Tinfoil trailers are how you keep the government from reading your brainwaves these days

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Lol, funny joke.

 

[Jump]

It's almost certain that most of the alliances Iran had formented with these various terror groups were based entirely on the personal relationships their leadership had with this Soleimani guy. It's also easily assumed that this general used the usual middle eastern strategy of making sure that nobody directly underneath him was anything approaching competent to secure his necessity to the Mullahs.

And now all those groups are out there thinking for themselves and acting with out instruction.
I doubt the central government has control of all their assets in the field with solemani gone.
They said publicly that they where done after the 15 shot attack. Some time later someone fires 2 rockets at the green zone and another group of retards decides to shoot down an airliner. I am sure we will see more of this dumb stuff happen.

Even with the naked eye and ears there is no way you could mistake an airliner for a B52 or C130. They can fucking see the airport from those mountains so they can watch and track it taking off. And your in the airport's runway flightpath so you hear airliners flying overhead all day everyday. Even on the 1990s slav tor radar you could see the airliner would be CLIMBING not diving to bomb them.

 

[The Great Chandler]

Last night over dinner, I caught shit from my family for saying the Ukraine plane was likely shot down by trigger-happy Iranians. I even showed them pictures of the shrapnel holes, and they still didn't believe me. My little bro in particular (who is aware that I post here) joked that I'm getting all my information from alt-media and that I've become a conspiracy theorist.

With today's CBS article and now this video, I can't help but feel a bit smug.

What do they think now considering msm is admitting it?

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

About a 12 second delay between impact, and the sound reaching the person recording. So about two and a half miles away.

Give me some time finding more footage of the missile strike, and I should be able to nail down where the things came from.

And as lazy as the Iranians are, they've probably been rotating between the same revetments for years. They can edit out launchers themselves, but they suck so bad at it, they almost never blot out mast shadows, backblast burns, and disposal pits.

Aluminum is a superior product, and easy to recycle. For the progressive conspiracy theorist.

Just don't let on that aluminum caps amplify the waves, thereby decreasing cook times. I say let them sizzle themselves if we ever see a Carrington event coming.

 

[Bungus Scrungus]

Well, if Canada wants to handle this, they can. America has no reason to go to war, and Iran dug it's own grave. As far as the US is concerned, we should just leave this to the countries who actually lost citizens over this pathetic attempt at riling the US up, and simply send supply aid and stuff, I.E: not troops. We only go to war over orchestrated false flag attacks nowadays, goddammit! When someone mentions Iran has WMD's out of nowhere, then we'll go over there and shit, ya know? Gotta set it up.

 

[mr.moon1488]

Give me some time finding more footage of the missile strike, and I should be able to nail down where the things came from.

And as lazy as the Iranians are, they've probably been rotating between the same revetments for years. They can edit out launchers themselves, but they suck so bad at it, they almost never blot out mast shadows, backblast burns, and disposal pits.



Just don't let on that aluminum caps amplify the waves, thereby decreasing cook times. I say let them sizzle themselves if we ever see a Carrington event coming.

If we had a fairly precise approximation of the location of the plane at impact with the missile, and some rough specifications for the missile itself, it would actually pretty easy to figure it out from the video, since you could use the time between missile launch, and impact to get an estimate of distance. Once you knew the distance from the observer to plane, and launch site to plane, the only missing point is distance between observer and launch site, which can be solved pretty simply.

For instance, subtracting about .2 miles from the distance of the observer to impact (to account roughly for altitude adding to the distance), and then assuming the missile was launched 1 mile away from the plane, it would mean the launch site was about 2 miles away from the observer if I calculated it correctly.

 

[Pinot Pierrot]

What do they think now considering msm is admitting it?

They’re saddened that the all those people died from such a stupid mistake.

 

[Coleslaw]

And, of course, enemy of the American people Omar thinks the death of American troops is funny. Now she says she has PTSD. This critter cannot even be considered human.

Omar under fire for giggling through statement covering US war causalities, claims PTSD over Iran conflict

Ilhan Omar laughed & hobnobbed with peers as Sheila Jackson Lee spoke about Iraq War casualties. Then minutes later, she claimed to be suffering from PTSD.

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Omar under fire for giggling through statement covering US war causalities, claims PTSD over Iran conflict
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As Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee spoke during a presser with her colleagues Wednesday about the causalities of the Iraq War and how they allegedly relate to President Donald Trump’s recent actions against Iran, one of her colleagues chose to act like a dunce.
Instead of listening keenly to Lee’s words, that colleague, antisemitic Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, used her time to hobnob with her congressional pals, including fellow antisemitic Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and laugh repeatedly over some joke.
Watch:


“I’m very glad to say that I was part of the 132 and also the vote for [Rep.] Barbara Lee’s amendment, but I think that the point of that is that that is the same war that we’re dealing with today,” Lee could be heard saying in the recording above.
“We never solved any problems with AUMF [the Authorization for Use of Military Force], we left four thousand plus, maybe even forty-four hundred dead, and over sixty thousand who came back injured in some form and the war never ended.”
As Lee began speaking about being “part of the 132” House Republicans and Democrats who voted in October of 2002 against authorizing the use of military force against Iraq, Omar and her younger colleagues briefly exchanged a smile.
This upset some:

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But as Omar’s colleagues returned to listening to Lee continue her speech, she for some reason chose to seemingly ignore it altogether.
First, she turned around to start what appeared to be a humorous conversation with Tlaib. Moments later, she turned to the colleague on her right to speak with her as well. Then she turned back to Tlaib. Throughout the whole ordeal, she smiled and giggled.
It’s unclear what the congresswoman found funny regarding the thousands who died or were injured during the Iraq War. Odder still is what the congresswoman chose to say when her time at the podium arrived.
“I feel ill a little bit because of everything that is taking place, and I think every time I hear conversations around war, I find myself being stricken with PTSD,” she claimed. “And I find peace knowing that I serve with great advocates for peace and people who have shown courage against war.”
Listen:


Some took offense to the very notion of her suffering from PTSD.
“Rep. Ilhan Omar complained she’s ‘stricken with PTSD’ because of recent events in the Middle East,” Republican Rep. Jim Banks, a military veteran, tweeted in anger.
“This is a disgrace and offensive to our nation’s veterans who really do have PTSD after putting their life on the line to keep America safe.”

Look at this and similar tweets below:

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In fairness, Omar immigrated to the United States as an ungrateful refugee during the height of the still-ongoing Somalian Civil War in 1992. That year alone, an estimated 350,000 Somalians reportedly died of disease, starvation or war.
That said, even if the congresswoman really has been suffering from PTSD symptoms, why would she then laugh and giggle during a discussion about the American lives lost during the Iraq War, some wondered. It seemed to suggest she was full of it.
Look:

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While the congressman has not yet explained her decision to act like a dunce as Lee spoke of Iraq War casualties, she has responded to the critics complaining about her PTSD.

“I survived war as a child and deal with post-traumatic stress disorder — much like many who have served or lived through war. It’s shameful that you as a member of Congress would erase the PTSD of survivors,” she tweeted to Banks early Wednesday evening:

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By the same token, many would argue that it’s “shameful that YOU as a member of Congress would” laugh, giggle and hobnob during a discussion about the thousands of Americans who died during the Iraq War. Fair is fair, after all …

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To be fair which of us haven't laughed in inappropriate moments?

 

[Stoneheart]

I knew that night it was a fucking missile, anyone who looked at the flight data and understood what they were looking at knew (of course to be fair, anyone who thought otherwise is an idiot. It was so obvious). It was going perfectly and then...gone. What a bunch of stupid faggots. They can't even saber rattle correctly.

Well those muppets in Ukraine said it was a rocket first and than they went back on it...

but well they are muppets.

 

[qu_rahn]

Alleged video of missile hitting airliner. Apologies if already posted:

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[#zzz]

My very first thought when I heard of the drone strike on Suleimani, is that Trump was informed by whichever staff-officer that a strike had been made, but hadn't disclosed who the actual target was. As Suleimani was travelling with a bunch of other high-value militiamen & Iranian assets, his death was more like an intentional oops, with an eye towards setting Trump up for failure.

The deep state doesn't just exist in DC and the CIA/FBI. The upper echelons of our military are riddled with very political generals, on both sides of the spectrum. It sucks, but it sort of comes with the job description at O-6 and above, due to the piss-poor nature of congressional endorsements for entry into war colleges.

And I know there are plenty of Marines who are extremely dick-hurt that their brofu romance between Mattis and Trump didn't work out. And honestly, if Mattis had been in the loop with any say-so, Iran would already be a thrice-smelted wasteland of shattered glass (because why shouldn't we bomb the fuck out of it, if only for the prismatic effect).

Add in the fact that an erroneous "draft" memo was leaked from the office of the OIC in Iraq (a Marine general) to the Iraqi parliament about a withdrawal, preempting Trump, and well.....

Anyways, I don't figure those same generals expected that Trump would have taken Mad Dog's gospel to heart and instead sat calmly eating ice cream, before responding in a way they should've totally seen coming. I guess his books aren't on the suggested reading list at Annapolis or West Point.
And the Gospels of Mattis have fallen on deaf ears, apparently.

Sad.

Yeah when I heard Suleimani was basically assassinated. I thought, "that doesn't sound like Trump, he likes to make deals, that sounds very Obama/Hillary-esque"

 

[Still Anonymous For This]

The old Soviet Military and I believe the current Russian Military, had a process where the conscripts that tested highest on their entrance exams would be assigned to air defense. So if you were some thin pasty nerd, and were good at Maths, you'd be looked after. You wouldn't be sent to basic with the rest of the savages, you'd do a separate low key training, with less psychotic drill instructors.

The understanding was that when you were trained and assigned to an air defense unit, you'd be able to tell the difference between a US high performance Jet and a slow moving Air Liner taking off from a local airport (Source Inside the Red Army by Victor Suvorov a really good book)

Obviously the Iranians when they Bought the SA 15's of the Russians decided, that they could just crew the system with exceptional individuals that couldn't talk their way out of national service.

Russia, at least since the Second World War, has always had special divisions or departments that see specialized attention when it comes to recruitment. They took the "guards regiment" mentality of the Napoleonic era and ran with it. The Russian Navy still only recruits the best into their boomers and attack subs. Otherwise you get placed on a surface ship: and if you're a real dumb-dumb or a troublemaker, you get put on the Kuznetsov.

That's true of most militaries, but the difference with the Russians is if you're just some Joe Schmo conscript in basic, you're probably being hazed and, in some circumstances sexually assaulted. Meanwhile your neighbor Vasily who paid attention in school is sitting in a super chill sonar class and does not have to worry about his intoxicated NCOs raping and torturing him to death.

 

[MrHoneyBadger]

Even though I've called it, it's still hard to believe, so idiotic it is. Clusterfuck of epic proportions indeed.