An American killed, 4 injured in heavy Iraqi Shiite [Iran Backed] rocket strike on US K-1 base near Kirkuk.........
December 29, 2019
At least 30 rockets launched against the US K-1 base near the oil city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Friday, December 27, killed an American civilian contractor and injured 4 US soldiers.
Some 11 to 14 exploded inside the base; the rest outside. They were fired from rocket-launching trucks parked outside the facility. The crews then abandoned the launch-pads and took off in waiting getaway vehicles.
Reliable military sources report that analysis of the shrapnel quickly identified the Iranian-made rockets that are supplied to their Iraqi proxy, the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), whose commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, is a deputy of Al Qods-chief General Qassem Soleimani.
According to our sources, the PMU rocket attack was Iran’s punishment for the month-long US aerial offensive for breaking up the Iraqi Shiite militia concentrations around Abu Kamal and Deir ez-Zour near the Syrian border with Iraq,
According to a division of labour, the US Air Force has targeted the Der ez-Zour contingents and Israel, the units present around Abu Kamal and up to Palmyra.
Urgent consultations began in Washington on Saturday for a decision on how and when the US should retaliate for the attack on the K-1 base. The US maintains some 5,000 troops in Iraq.
On December 13, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a strong warning that any attack by Iran or its proxies that “harm Americans, our allies or our interests will be answered with a decisive US response.”
He was reacting to more than 10 rocket and mortar attacks against US military facilities in Iraq and the US embassy compound in Baghdad.
Three days later, Defence Secretary Mark Esper repeated this warning in a conversation with Iraqi prime minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi.
Not much can be expected from Baghdad since both the prime minister and this week the president have handed in their resignations over the turmoil generated by two months of protests that have paralysed government.
Military sources note that while Iran retaliates habitually for US air strikes on its military facilities and those of its proxies in Syria, Tehran has so far mostly avoided responding in kind to Israel’s air campaign. This has now CHANGED.
Turkey is sending Syrian rebel force to fight Haftar in Libya ............
December 29, 2019
Large contingents of Syrian Turkman rebel militias are being transferred to Libya by Turkish airlift and sealift to help the Tripoli government repel the assault on the capital by General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army, military sources report.
The LNA has just broken through the government’s defence lines and is driving toward the centre of Tripoli.
Haftar is backed by Russia, Egypt and the UAE.
Sources in Syria and Turkey disclose that the rebel Syrian units heading for Libya are the Sultan Murad Brigade and the Faylaq al-Sham, most of whose fighters belong to the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.
This is the first time that combatants from Syria’s civil war are participating in the conflict of a fellow Arab nation.
“And I will turn you back, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet”. Ezekiel 38; 4&5
New Russian weapon can Travel 27 times the speed of sound .........
29 December 2019
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