{"id":135559,"date":"2020-01-02T20:26:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T01:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=135559"},"modified":"2020-01-02T22:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T03:12:58","slug":"breaking-senior-iranian-military-leader-sulimani-deputy-chief-killed-in-airstrike-fingers-pointed-at-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/breaking-senior-iranian-military-leader-sulimani-deputy-chief-killed-in-airstrike-fingers-pointed-at-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Iranian Military Leader Sulimani Killed In U.S. Airstrike, Pentagon Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"
BAGHDAD — Qasem Soleimani, Iranian Major general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and his Deputy General, have been killed in a United States airstrike at the Baghdad International airport, the Pentagon confirms. An engineer was also among those killed.<\/p>\n
The Department of Defense said in a statement, “At the direction of the President, the U.S. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. <\/em><\/p>\n General Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.<\/em><\/p>\n He had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months – including the attack on December 27th – culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel.”<\/em><\/p>\n