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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump launched another operation targeting a senior Iranian official in Yemen on the same day (WP)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/on-the-day-us-forces-killed-soleimani-they-launched-another-secret-operation-targeting-a-senior-iranian-official-in-yemen/2020/01/10/60f86dbc-3245-11ea-898f-eb846b7e9feb_story.htmlOn the day U.S. forces killed Soleimani, they launched another secret operation targeting a senior Iranian official in Yemen
By John Hudson, Missy Ryan and Josh Dawsey
Jan. 10, 2020 at 11:20 a.m. CST
On the day the U.S. military killed a top Iranian commander in Baghdad, U.S. forces carried out another top secret mission against a senior Iranian military official in Yemen, according to U.S. officials.
The strike targeting Abdul Reza Shahlai, a financier and key commander of Irans elite Quds Force who has been active in Yemen, did not result in his death, according to four U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The unsuccessful operation may indicate that the Trump administrations killing of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani last week was part of a broader operation than previously explained, raising questions about whether the mission was designed to cripple the leadership of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or solely to prevent an imminent attack on Americans as originally stated.
U.S. military operations in Yemen, where a civil war has created the worlds worst humanitarian crisis, are shrouded in secrecy. U.S. officials said the operation against Shahlai remains highly classified, and many declined to offer details other than to say it was not successful.
Officials at the Pentagon and in Florida were monitoring both strikes and had discussed announcing them together, had they gone well, officials said.
If we had killed him, wed be bragging about it that same night, a senior U.S. official said, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a classified military operation.
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Trump launched another operation targeting a senior Iranian official in Yemen on the same day (WP) (Original Post)
dalton99a
Jan 2020
OP
underpants
(182,861 posts)1. Half-assed as usual
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Explians the Saudi
Prince in the Oval the next day.