Blowback From The Soleimani Assassination Increases As Iraq Reveals How Trump Tried To Steal Its Oil

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Taffyboy,  psychohistorian  , spudski, somebody, Hmpf,  Joe, par4, Willy2, Hoarsewhisperer, timbers , Annie  ,  Kali , Castellio     

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Saturday, January 11, 2020 - 23:45
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...and a very good essay by Michael Hudson as appeared on the Saker blog, a fine compliment to this work being done here by B.

http://thesaker.is/america-escalates-its-democratic-oil-war-in-the-near-east/

 

Posted by: Taffyboy | Jan 7 2020 17:55 utc | 1

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Thanks for the reporting b

I would not be surprised to see attempts made to kill Putin and Xi as well as other Axis of Resistance leaders.

I keep hoping that China backs out of the Phase I trade deal with the US as well as start cashing in some of their trillion dollars of US treasuries.

IMO, the finance jackboot/punchbowl needs to be taken away from the elite in the West and only then will the world start to change.

 

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 7 2020 18:03 utc | 2

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Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 7 2020 18:03 utc | 2

 

Great work b! This may sound naive, but I hope Putin has sufficient security for his travel arrangements.

Posted by: spudski | Jan 7 2020 18:04 utc | 3

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b. you fall for propaganda. It is very likely that US put pressure on Iraq not to deal with China and Russia - I am sure they did - as they are doing world wide including Germany.

It is also sure that US tried to get Iraq to toe the sanctions line towards Iran (that is presumably what broke the camels back).

It is also safe to assume that Saudi et al tried to ride on the back of inter-Shiite and inter-Iranian dispute.

I am prepared to believe that Souleimani for some reason had extremely good PR in Iran (and the reason for this is interesting).

The rest is fiction.

Abdul Mahdi seems to have resigned after Sistani withdrew his support.

I have to trust Deutsche Welle on this but consider it likely

Al-Sistani, the 88-year-old spiritual leader of Iraqi Shiites, warned in his sermon of civil war after a deadly day of violence, in which security forces shot dead 40 people in the capital and southern provinces.

The latest deaths brought the number killed since October 1 to more than 400 people, while thousands more have been wounded.

In his sermon, al-Sistani said that parliament should act in Iraq's interest and ">avoid seeing the country slip into a vortex of violence, chaos and havoc."

 

Iraq tried to keep equidistance between US and Iranian demands - as this being its best interest - and failed.

 

Posted by: somebody | Jan 7 2020 18:16 utc | 4

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Putin is in no need of a strong security detail. He's made a statement by his traveling to Damascus on short notice - an extremely strong statement at that. If anyone dared to only think about attacking him and his entourage all hell would brake loose - the freaks are aware of this.

 

Posted by: Hmpf | Jan 7 2020 18:20 utc | 5

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I am not even sure the US targeted Souleimani. In the ladder of escalation it would make much more sense if they had targeted the leader of the Shiite military group they had been doing tit for tat with all along. They are so disfunctional that they may not have know whom he was in the car with. Trump was playing golf, remember.

 

Posted by: somebody | Jan 7 2020 18:20 utc | 6

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“ The American President's threatened the Iraqi Prime Minister to liquidate him directly with the Minister of Defense. The Marines are the third party that sniped the demonstrators and the security men:”

If “they” really wanted him removed from office You’d think this would already have been leaked to US media by his enemies inside the Gov. We know 100’s of USG personnel from various depts/agencies listen to, record and transcribe every call he makes to foreign leaders. Or maybe it’s being used as leverage by War, Inc to get what they want? Deep State must be working OT to keep this under wraps in the US.

 

Posted by: Joe | Jan 7 2020 18:27 utc | 7

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DFT=designated foreign terrorist? As a USA citizen I wonder if we should send those responsible to Iran & Iraq for prosecution. We can tell them they should take one for the team.

Posted by: par4 | Jan 7 2020 18:37 utc | 9

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- Whenever US troops are stationed in country a socalled "SOFA" (Status Of Forces Agreement) is signed. In 2007/2008 the iraqi government only wanted to grant the US a SOFA for 4 years. The US has been pushing hard to get a new SOFA but the iraqis refused to sign a new SOFA. That meant that Obama had no choice but to withdraw (80% ??, 90 % of) all US troops from Iraq in 2011. Only by moving a significant amount of those troops to Aghanistan Obama was able push this withdrawal trhough Congress.

 

Posted by: Willy2 | Jan 7 2020 18:40 utc | 10

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"The U.S. has denied Iran's Foreign Minister Jahvad Zarif a visa for a long planned visit to the UN in New York."

If this disgraceful conduct by the Full Spectrum Dumbinence Yankees doesn't breach International Law it's only because the so-called United Nations is hostage to the psychotic whims of Christian Colonialism's thieves, murderers, liars & looters.

At least it explains why "UN spokespersons" so frequently speak like US puppets. Under these circumstances the UN is little more than a US lap-dog and about as "international" as ZATO.

 

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jan 7 2020 18:42 utc | 11

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I hope Iran really does have a plan/plans in place and is ready for a US attack. I'm seeing lots of reports of US moving forces towards Iran/Iraq. They could be unreliable click-bait headlines, and I don't like the source (zero hedge). But that's not comfort enough.

Posted by: timbers | Jan 7 2020 18:49 utc | 13

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I'm suspended from Twitter for saying that Americans are sick of dying in wars for Israel.
Soleimani was hated because he longed for the freedom of the Palestinian people from the clutches of fascist, apartheid Israhell.
This conversation had with Al Mahdi, is not only plausible but entirely believable as this has been played out in other regime change such as Ukrainian Maidan and Syria.
God bless General Soleimani. The hero of the resistance. He will accomplish more in Martyrdom than when he was alive. He would be so happy. Maybe this is why he so sought his Martyrdom...

 

Posted by: Annie | Jan 7 2020 18:58 utc | 17

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This is how a MAFIA BOSS operates. Trump made an offer Abdul Mahdi couldn't refuse. Trump is a GODFATHER and his clique is literally a gangster MAFIA using extortion and OPERATING A PROTECTION RACKET.

Posted by: Kali | Jan 7 2020 19:07 utc | 20

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Maybe a good time to remember that the Greek courts found proof of an American assassination plot to kill a former Prime Minister of Greece, Costas Karamanlis. It is widely believed it was the threat of death that caused him to suddenly "resign" from political life. The Judge in his findings believed the reason for the plot was Karamanlis' desire to improve the country's relations with Russia, although it could just as easily have been the agreement he made when Prime Minister with the Chinese to administer the Ports at Piraeus, which were subsequently purchased by China as part of the One Belt One Road initiative.

The claims by the Iraqis of similar death threats need to be taken seriously.

 

Posted by: Castellio | Jan 7 2020 19:28 utc | 23

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Frankly, the most original comment I have found on the whole Soleimani assassination by the Trump regime is this by somebody:

 

I am not even sure the US targeted Souleimani. In the ladder of escalation it would make much more sense if they had targeted the leader of the Shiite military group they had been doing tit for tat with all along. They are so disfunctional that they may not have know whom he was in the car with. Trump was playing golf, remember.

I had not considered that possibility but the more I think about it the more I realise this might actually be true, which might explain their hurried claims of having information on "imminent" threats without specifying them, and why they were so keen to say that Trump himself ordered it. That they are dysfunctional and incompetent we already know, and it is not outside the realms of possibility that they are this clueless as well.