Details Emerging On The Air Strike That Killed Iranian General Qassim Soleimani

FOX News: Trump orders attack that kills Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani, other military officials in Baghdad, Pentagon says

President Trump ordered a game-changing U.S. military attack that killed Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force, among other military officials at Baghdad International Airport early Friday, the Pentagon confirmed.

Soleimani is the military mastermind whom Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had deemed equally as dangerous as Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In October, Baghdadi killed himself during a U.S. raid on a compound in northwest Syria, seven months after the so-called ISIS "caliphate" crumbled as the terrorist group lost its final swath of Syrian territory in March.

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WNU Editor: Summarizing ....

- President Trump ordered this strike
- Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces, arrived at the airport to meet General Qassim Soleimani
- Soleimani's plane had arrived from either Lebanon or Syria
- The airstrike occurred as soon as he descended from the plane to be greeted by Muhandis and his companions, killing them all.
- Three rockets were fired
- Soleimani's body was identified by the ring he wore
- Mehr News Agency has reported the the death of General Qassim Soleimani. the other Iranian news websites have not .... (Mehr News Agency) (Press TV) (Tasnim News Agency) (Tehran Times)

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