{"id":34578,"date":"2020-01-12T05:39:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T13:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=34578"},"modified":"2020-01-25T17:40:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T01:40:17","slug":"israel-helped-kill-soleimani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/12\/israel-helped-kill-soleimani\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Helped Kill Soleimani"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s just one throwaway line<\/a> in CIA asset Ken Dilanian<\/a>\u2019s new NBC piece<\/a> on the whiz-bang, super-neato, space-age, Hollywood movie-like, special, high-technology that made the assassination possible.<\/p>\n

“Intelligence from Israel helped confirm the details.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And dammit, I just love the “Oceania has always been at war with the Badr Brigade” line of Iraq War II-denial embedded in all these stories. Dilanian and his assistant demonstrate how it’s done almost perfectly here:<\/p>\n

“At the Baghdad airport, Soleimani was greeted by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of an Iraqi anti-American militia and a suspect in the bombing of the American and French embassies in Kuwait in 1983. Al-Muhandis got into the sedan with Soleimani and he, too, was killed in the strike.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Soleimani reviews his US troops in Iraq War III <\/del>Update: Former soldiers I know doubt the men on the left are actually U.S. troops. Same difference though.
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Sounds like a pretty bad dude. Too bad W. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Gates, Petraeus and the rest fought<\/a> a 5 year civil war for him<\/em><\/a> and his friends in the Da’wa Party and Supreme Islamic Council beginning in 2003, and then Obama and Trump fought another<\/em><\/a> on their behalf from 2014\u20132019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh well, anyway, what’s that you say? 1983<\/em> Kuwait embassy something? Oh yeah. We’re all still really mad about that too! Maybe we should ask President Reagan to double his support<\/a> for Saddam Hussein to get some revenge<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s just one throwaway line in CIA asset Ken Dilanian\u2019s new NBC piece on the whiz-bang, super-neato, space-age, Hollywood movie-like, special, high-technology that made the assassination possible. “Intelligence from Israel helped confirm the details.” And dammit, I just love the “Oceania has always been at war with the Badr Brigade” line of Iraq War II-denial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-34578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34578"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34702,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34578\/revisions\/34702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34578"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=34578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}