Iran Conflict: 1/6 8:30 pm - Trump Drafting Sanctions on Iraq

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@TaraCopp
BREAKING:
@EsperDoD
says memo on withdrawal is not accurate “there’s been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq.”

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@laraseligman
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Just in: Responding to questions about a reported letter from TF-Iraq @EsperDoD says there has been "no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq." Says he has seen the letter but doesn't know where it came from. CJCS Gen. Milley notes it is not signed.

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@SkyNewsBreak
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Hundreds of US-led forces are being moved out of a base in Baghdad’s Green Zone to elsewhere in Iraq and Kuwait following Friday's killing of Major General Qassem Soleimani but the coalition says they will remain in their theatre of operation

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@haynesdeborah
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NEW: 100s of US-led forces are being moved out of a base in Baghdad’s Green Zone to elsewhere in Iraq, such as Taji base, & to Kuwait (but still in theatre of ops), a coalition source says, explaining letter below??. It’s to “thin out” troops in Baghdad. “We’re not leaving Iraq”

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(@AJABreaking)
Urgent Iraqi media: Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy chief of the PMF, killed

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Julie Lenarz (@MsJulieLenarz)
If you multiply the death of Osama bin Laden and Abu Bakr al Baghdadi you begin to understand the significance of Soleimani’s death.

This man controlled the most powerful state-controlled army of terror.

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(@Newsofiraq)
# Urgent || Al-Iraqiya Governmental Channel: The killing of the Deputy of the Popular Mobilization Committee, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, and the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani

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@AlArabiya_Brk)
Official Iraqi TV announces the killing of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qasim Soleimani # Arabic_Agil

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@Joyce_Karam)
BREAKING: #IRAQ OFFICIAL TV ANNOUNCES #IRAN IRGC LEADER QASSEM SULEIMANI IS ASSASSINATED.

ALSO KILLED HEAD OF KATAIB HEZBOLLAH ABU MEHDI MUHANDIS

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@mustafahamaidhe)
Operation Blue Lightning .. This is how the US military called the operation that targeted two cars at Baghdad International Airport that led to the killing of Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, along with 6 other leaders of the Hashd, and he believed with them a Lebanese leader .. # Iraq_ rise up

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List of the 8 Senior PMU Officials Killed in the 2 Hellcat airstrikes:

Mohammad Ridha Al-Jabri (PMU's Chief Protocol Officer & mastermind of the Baghdad Embassy attack)
Mohammad Reza Kazim (Head of Hasan Resistance)
Hasan Abdul Hadi
Mohammad Al-Shaybani
Muhammad Kawtharani (The Hezbollah's Head of Iraq Activities and chief fundraiser) US Treasury on Kawtharani

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