Current Events > Iran-backed militia vows revenge for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-militia-vow-revenge-for-us-strikes-iraq-and-syria-today-2019-12-30/

An Iranian-backed militia said Monday that the death toll from U.S. military strikes in Iraq and Syria against its fighters has risen to 25, vowing to exact revenge for the "aggression of evil American ravens." The announcement in Baghdad came a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Washington had carried out military strikes targeting the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia blamed for a rocket attack that killed an American contractor in Iraq last week.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the strikes send the message that the U.S. won't tolerate actions by Iran that jeopardize American lives.

"Our battle with America and its mercenaries is now open to all possibilities," Kataeb Hezbollah said in a statement around midnight Sunday. "We have no alternative today other than confrontation and there is nothing that will prevent us from responding to this crime."

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Don't start none there won't be none

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Iran itself isn't going to do anything. They're just going to continue to fund and arm groups that will take potshots at Americans in countries like Iraq.

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Do you want to die Iraqi PMF? Because this is how you die.

Don't make promises you won't keep

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I like how we call our mercenaries "contractors" to make it sound less illegal. like calling prostitutes "escorts"

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ThyCorndog posted...

I like how we call our mercenaries "contractors" to make it sound less illegal. like calling prostitutes "escorts"

Works on the less informed. Like myself, thank you.
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ThyCorndog posted...

I like how we call our mercenaries "contractors" to make it sound less illegal. like calling prostitutes "escorts"

Why do you think that this contractor was a mercenary?

Do you know that tens of thousands of civilians from countries all over the world work in Iraq/Afghanistan in jobs, contracted by the US, that are as benign as wiping down gym equipment?

Ive been to Iraq, there arent mercenaries like there are in the movies. If you get a contracted job that involves holding a gun youre probably a gate guard who checks IDs all day, not Solid Snake.

lol bullshit, remember Blackwater and their 2007 massacre?
now they're just changed their name as Academi and operating like usual.

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Cool ...I'm sure they could totally do something to us that's remotely threatening and will definitely actually do it this time

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Were_Wyrm posted...

Don't start none there won't be none

country's stupid enough never learn lesson. they keep doing it over and over again.
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I heard they had several speedboats with mounted machine guns. We're fucked.

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