Tehran sources: An Israeli Harop drone attacked pro-Iranian Iraqi militia base NE of Baghdad.
Iranian and Iraq intelligence sources now claim an Israeli Harop UAV [pictured above] carried out the attack on the 52nd Brigade of the Hashd Shaabi militia on Friday, July 19.
The attack struck the militia at a Badr Brigades camp outside Amerli town in the Salah-Al-din Province northeast of Baghdad.
The sources identify the fragments gathered at the site as belonging to the IAF’s Harop, a loitering combat unmanned vehicle, itself a flying bomb, developed by Israel’sAerospace Industries.
This drone is a stealth munition that can loiter for up to six hours before homing in on a target. It has a range of 1,000km. The Badr camp is about 900km from Israel.
Some Russian aviation websites also speculated on Sunday that Israel was responsible for the attack.
According to Iranian Revolutionary Guards, there were no casualties – in denial of local accounts of deaths among Iranian and Hizballah officers.
According to Iranian Revolutionary Guards, there were no casualties – in denial of local accounts of deaths among Iranian and Hizballah officers.
If the Iranian and Iraqi claim is confirmed, it would represent three ground-breaking events:
1. The Israeli Air Force’s first known attack on an Iranian target using a Harop UCAV.
2. The first Israeli attack deep inside Iraq not far from its border with Iran.
3. The Israeli minister Tzachi Hnegbi’s blunt remark on Sunday, that in the past two years Israel has caused Iranian military deaths in both overt and covert operations, may have betrayed some impatience with the Trump administration’s policy of military restraint against Iran, including Tehran’s threat to Gulf shipping. In certain circles, Washington’s restraint is seen as exposing Israel to bolder Iranian aggression.
Israel has repeatedly put Tehran on notice that its plans to use Iraq as a launching pad for attacks on Israel would not be tolerated. Developing...
The U.S. is Staging Troops at a Key Saudi Military Base that it Used During all of the Previous Middle East Wars........
July 22, 2019
The U.S. military is following many of the exact same patterns that we witnessed during our previous wars in the Middle East, and that even includes setting up shop at a key military base deep in the heart of the Arabian peninsula.
After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the U.S. military abandoned Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, [pictured above] but now they are back.
Hundreds of U.S. troops are already there working hard to get the base operational, and a tremendous amount of new construction is planned. The base covers “well over a hundred square miles”, and so it has more than enough room to serve as a central hub for a new Middle East war.
Every time the U.S. has decided to go to war in the Middle East, Prince Sultan Air Basehas played a leading role.
And now after all this time they have suddenly returned.
This time around, it appears that the U.S. is planning for a very long stay. Unfortunately, so far only a very small portion of the U.S. population seems alarmed about any of this.
According to NBC News, existing roads and runways will be reinforced and expanded, and the U.S. military is even going to “build a medical facility” Apparently whoever is in charge of making these sorts of decisions is not very optimistic about peace with Iran.
The Pentagon is rapidly preparing for war, and Prince Sultan Air Base is now buzzing with U.S. military activity for the very first time since the invasion of Iraq.
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