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How US strike killed Iran’s General Soleimani as he hid in plain sight

JacksinPA

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How US strike killed Iran’s General Soleimani as he hid in plain sight | News | The Times

Maybe, after 20 years as Iran’s master fixer across the Middle East’s troublespots, he thought he was invincible. Maybe he had put trust in President Trump’s insistence that he had no desire for war with Iran and wanted to withdraw from the region altogether.

The general certainly knew that US and Israeli leaders had for years plotted his assassination and then balked at the possible consequences.
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What killed this guy were several things. One was over confidence. He flew into Baghdad, a city that we virtually own. He must have known we were following him with various intelligence assets, such as spy satellites that can read license plates on ground vehicles as well as agents in that airport with sat phones or the like. And he knew that we had missile-armed drones as a constant presence in that area. He almost literally killed himself with our help.
 
An extremely talented and intelligent man who used to evade such attempts at his life time after time by being one step ahead.

He got too full of himself and considered himself immune thinking no one would dare go after him after the position he had achieved in Iran.
Another one who will go down in history as someone who was underestimating the determination of the US to defend its citizens and interests, Saddam Hussein being another.

A shame he was a terrorist really, could have done much more for Iran had he used his skills for the cause of good.
 
JacksinPA said:
How US strike killed Iran’s General Soleimani as he hid in plain sight | News | The Times

Maybe, after 20 years as Iran’s master fixer across the Middle East’s troublespots, he thought he was invincible. Maybe he had put trust in President Trump’s insistence that he had no desire for war with Iran and wanted to withdraw from the region altogether.

The general certainly knew that US and Israeli leaders had for years plotted his assassination and then balked at the possible consequences.
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What killed this guy were several things. One was over confidence. He flew into Baghdad, a city that we virtually own.
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I take issue with this. No way US forces own Baghdad. We were extremely lucky our embassy in the Green Zone wasn't overrun.
 
JacksinPA said:
How US strike killed Iran’s General Soleimani as he hid in plain sight | News | The Times

Maybe, after 20 years as Iran’s master fixer across the Middle East’s troublespots, he thought he was invincible. Maybe he had put trust in President Trump’s insistence that he had no desire for war with Iran and wanted to withdraw from the region altogether.

The general certainly knew that US and Israeli leaders had for years plotted his assassination and then balked at the possible consequences.
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What killed this guy were several things. One was over confidence. He flew into Baghdad, a city that we virtually own. He must have known we were following him with various intelligence assets, such as spy satellites that can read license plates on ground vehicles as well as agents in that airport with sat phones or the like. And he knew that we had missile-armed drones as a constant presence in that area. He almost literally killed himself with our help.
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In terms of hiding, the us has had the capability for almost 2 decades to know where he is and take him out, the kind of work he does leads a trail. Obama and bush jr decided killing him would do more hard than good and escalate problems in the already volatile middle east.

He was not that good at hiding from us intel as much as thinking no one would be stupid enough to assassinate him who was a state actor knowing it could draw on a direct war with iran or even a multi front war if nations started picking sides. He was right about bush clinton and obama, he was wrong with trump, I do not believe he thought anyone would be as reckless as to kill him in a state sancioned manner.
 
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