By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
The story below is from the Daily Beast, a Newsweek online publication often tied to Israel, but, in this case, with a story they got right, and they often do. Even the Israeli press shines well above most American counterparts. Simply read it and try not to get sick:
Last week, as Abdul-Mahdi worked to calm an increasingly explosive confrontation, he turned to Soleimani for help. An American contractor had been killed by a militia, Kataeb Hezbollah, that is part of the Iraqi government’s forces but which answered to Soleimani. Then came retaliatory U.S. airstrikes against Kataeb Hezbollah, killing at least 24 people. The militia’s supporters responded by trying to batter their way into the fortress-like U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad’s Green Zone.
The Iraqis had known that Soleimani could make the violence worse—or he could rein in the many Iraqi militias over which he held de facto command, and thus ease the tensions.
When the embassy siege ended, Abdul-Mahdi got a phone call from Trump thanking his government, and Trump asked him “to play the mediator’s role” between the U.S. and Iran. But Trump already had ordered the drones and helicopters set in motion to terminate the Iranian general in a fiery blast early last Friday morning near Baghdad airport.
Trump claims he ordered the hit to stop a major attack on Americans. But Abdul-Mahdi told Iraq’s parliament Sunday, “I was supposed to meet Soleimani the day he was killed.” He had come to deliver “a message from Iran responding to the message we delivered from Saudi [Arabia] to Iran.”
The story goes on, but we suggest you read it at the link above, we don’t want to be accused of putting words in someone else’s mouths.
The US has now approached the Kurds, which the US abandoned in Syria, in order to move their bases there and break that portion of Iraq off, which will threaten Turkey. Turkey claims continual PKK attacks are staged from the KRG in Iraq and has been involved in continual cross border military moves into the KRG, usually with the full blessing of the Erbil government but not the real government in Baghdad.
Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.
Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.
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Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey need to make it clear to the Kurdish leadership that they will not get anything they want in a post-war settlement if they side with the Zionists.
Pepe Escobar, with a pretty good write up in the Asia Times, acknowledging that General Soleimani was on a diplomatic mission at the best of Trump administration, and further, what happens to the $trillions in oil derivatives market when the Straits of Hormuz shut down. https://www.asiatimes.com/2020/01/article/financial-n-option-will-settle-trumps-oil-war/
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