A Second Airstrike In Iraq Has Killed Six And Critically Wounded Three

Around 1:15 AM Baghdad time (5:15 PM Eastern Time) Iraqi state TV and Al-Sumaria TV reported U.S. Coalition forces destroyed a two-vehicle convoy belonging to Hashd Al-Shaabi inside the city of Taiji, Iraq killing several members of a paramilitary group known as the Popular Mobilization Unit which has close ties to Iran.

This second strike came just hours ahead of a planned march mourning the Iranian Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis who were torn to shreds in a precision drone strike at Baghdad International Airport the day before.

News outlets in this country and abroad quickly took as gospel the reporting on Iraqi state TV however, Myles B. Caggins, III, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolves categorically denied responsibility:

FACT: The Coalition @CJTFOIR did NOT conduct airstrikes near Camp Taji (north of Baghdad) in recent days.

— OIR Spokesman Col. Myles B. Caggins III (@OIRSpox) January 4, 2020

One source, DailyMail.com, updated its original reporting at 18:45 EST on January 3 saying at 01:03 EST on January 4, “initial reports pinning responsibility for the strike on the U.S. and contradictory accounts from Pentagon sources” as the reason.”  They expounded further “It remains unclear whether the convoy was attacked by ground-based rockets or another military with air capabilities in the area.”

The Pentagon referred their inquiry to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) which did not respond to their request for comment, however Sen. James Risch (R-ID), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and No. 2 on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he had been briefed on the latest strike but declined to comment further until information about the strike is declassified.

So who did it? Israel has been mum.  I’ve vigorously searched for any clues that might point to the military forces capable of dusting the hapless vermin.  In any case, the Obama Administration subsidized the Iranian regime by paying it tribute.  This President’s resolve is indomitable.  He doesn’t want to turn Iran into a sheet of glass, but don’t push him.

EXIT QUESTION:  Does anyone know what flavor of ice cream the President was “dining on” when this latest strike went down?  Asking for the crazy “journalists” at CNN.

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