ABC News reported Saturday morning that 16 terrorists are dead after Friday’s retaliatory U.S. air strikes on Iranian-backed militia groups and the IRGC in both Iraq and Syria.
This from therightscoop.com.
Details below:
U.S. strikes in Iraq killed at least 16 people and wounded 25 others, the Iraqi government confirmed in an official statement.
The Iraqi government reported:
The American administration committed a new aggression against the sovereignty of Iraq, as the locations of our security forces, in the Akashat and Al-Qaim regions, as well as neighboring civilian places, were bombed by several American aircraft.
This blatant aggression led to 16 martyrs, including civilians, in addition to 25 wounded. It also caused losses and damage to residential buildings and citizens’ property.
The Iraqi government also stated the strikes would:
[P]ut security in Iraq and the region on the brink of the abyss and that they directly contradict the United States effort to establish the required stability in the region.
CENTCOM reported:
At 4:00 p.m. (EST) Feb. 02, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and affiliated militia groups.
U.S. military forces struck more than 85 targets, with numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from United States.
Further:
The airstrikes employed more than 125 precision munitions. The facilities that were struck included command and control operations centers, intelligence centers, rockets, and missiles, and unmanned aerial vehicle storages, and logistics and munition supply chain facilities of militia groups and their IRGC sponsors who facilitated attacks against U.S. and Coalition forces.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), chairman of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness, said in a statement:
I will be very interested to receive briefings on whether the telegraphing of these strikes over the past week by [The Regime] has allowed targets to escape or harden themselves.
Further:
It’s a huge expenditure of precision munitions from increasingly depleted stockpiles that are needed in the Indo-Pacific. All [because] of a failed Iran policy.
Sixteen terrorists dead after the U.S. waited nearly a week to retaliate is not exactly an adequate tit for tat. Establishing deterrence certainly must not have been a consideration. Odds are the Kenyan moslem in the basement directed this limp-wristed retaliation.
No doubt, most of the IRGC terrorists fled back to Iran before the air strikes. The Regime should have had these options on the table from the beginning and retaliated much sooner. The impact would have been much greater and the IRGC could have been blessed with many more ‘martyrs’.
