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Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada within the past two weeks launched deadly rocket attacks against US and Coalition forces bases in the area of Erbil, Iraq. A Philippino contractor was killed and American personnel were injured in the rocket attacks.
An anonymous U.S. source reported the strikes were carried out by USAF F-15E following surveillance by a UAE-based USAF Bombardier E-11A aircraft and its Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) over the area.
In the midst of Biden Administration efforts to re-engage Iran in a nuclear agreement this strike sends a clear message about U.S. resolve to protect American and Allied forces in Iraq and the entire Persian Gulf region.
Update 27 February 2021: An aei.org OpEd published yesterday has quickly called into question the Biden Administration's narrative on the airstrike in Syria. Point blank, the OpEd reports (a good assessment!) that problems with the strike are two-fold. First, the wrong targets were hit, and second, the Biden Administration's claim that the strikes were proportional are erroneous at best. They were not even remotely proportional, they were a wrist-slap instead of a sledgehammer blow. A truly proportional retaliatory strike would have Guam-based B-1B Lancer strategic bombers and their stand-off weaponry striking an Iranian air base as the U.S. and Coalition base in Erbil, Iraq was struck.
Instead of causing Iran and its proxy militias to stand down, the Biden-approved retaliation strike will exacerbate regional tensions and lead to more significant escalations in the region.
Here's a link to dw.com with details on the deadly Iranian proxy (Iraqi Shi'a militia) multiple rocket attack on the Erbil airport and residential area which precipitated the U.S. retaliation.
ReplyDeleteRocket Attack on Erbil Airport
Seven (7) JDAMs were launched at and struck seven targets in this airstrike. All seven targets were destroyed.
DeleteWere the events that occurred in 66-69 AD recognized at that time as the leading edge of the literal fulfillment of the angel Gabriel's prophetic narrative found in Daniel 9?
ReplyDeleteI've not read a single concurrent account affirming it. By a very wide margin more concurrent accounts have been written about the non-prophetic volcanic destruction of Pompei, Italy in 70 AD than the events in Israel.
Are those events recognized as a prophetic precursor (past as prologue) of the events that will yet occur in Israel's 70th week of years?
No more so than Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Macedonian-Greek king of Seleucia, is seen as the prophetic precursor of the Lawless One.
FYI: Three updates have been added to recent SITREPs this morning.
ReplyDeleteWhere, when, and how will Israel respond to the Iranian attack on their merchantship?
ReplyDeleteI guess this is the response Sean, AP reports that Syrian air defenses were activated in the capital Damascus and its southern suburbs Sunday night to repel an Israeli missile attack, state media reported. There was no word on casualties.
ReplyDeleteBen,
DeletePerhaps it was.
Excerpt from a TOI report:
"Israel’s Kan News, Channel 13 News and Ma’ariv newspaper all described the strikes as targeting Iranian sites, and characterized them as a response to a blast last week that hit an Israeli-owned ship in the Gulf of Oman, which Israeli officials have said was likely carried out by Iran."
Another Iranian militia rocket attack (10 rockets) occurred at Al Asad Air Base in western Iraq at 7:20 AM local time (11:20 PM EST Tuesday) on Wednesday, 3 March 2021.
ReplyDeleteA U.S. Contractor died of a heart attack while sheltering in place during the attack.
Keep eyes on Iran.
ReplyDeleteIgnore MSM concerning the Biden socialist usurpers and Israel being in concurrence on Iran policy. Nothing could be further from the truth.
UPDATE 7 APRIL 2021:
ReplyDeleteOn the morning of Tuesday, April 6th 2021, Israeli naval commandos attacked an Iranian forward operations base in the southern Red Sea. The base is a converted merchant ship named Saviz operated by IRGC naval forces. It has been stationed near the Bab al-Mandab choke point since 2018.
Smoke and flames onboard the ship were reported by Arab media.
Quoting a Times of Israel report issued a few hours ago, "The US official said the attack may have been timed to let an American aircraft carrier, the Dwight D. Eisenhower, to move away from the area. The carrier was around 200 miles away at the time of the strike, the official said."
The Eisenhower CSG had made a southbound passage through the Suez Canal this past weekend.