This abortive attack comes on the very day of the second anniversary of the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, killed in Iraq by the US military.
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Attack avoided. The American soldiers in Iraq on Monday, January 3, shot down two trapped drones launched against a base at Baghdad airport where troops of the international anti-jihadist coalition led by the United States are stationed. “Two armed drones targeted Baghdad airport this morning at around 4:30 am (2:30 am PST)” where a military base houses “a very small number of coalition troops, which do not have a combat role”, a coalition official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The attack, which was not immediately claimed, comes on the same day as the second anniversary of the deaths of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi lieutenant, killed in a US drone attack on the road. from Baghdad International Airport. “The C-RAM defense batteries (…) intercepted them and they were shot down without a problem”, he added.
Photos obtained by AFP from the same source show what remains of one of the projectiles. “Commanders’ revenge operations”, can we read on a piece of black metal. “The Iraqis have opened an investigation”, specified the person in charge. “There is no damage, but it is a civilian airport, it is very dangerous to launch this type of attack”.
On January 3, 2020, on the orders of then-US President Donald Trump, an armed drone shot sprayed the vehicle in which Qassem Soleimani, architect of Iranian strategy in the Middle East, was located. With him, there was Abu Mehdi al-Mouhandis, number 2 of Hachd al-Chaabi, a coalition of pro-Iranian armed factions now integrated into the Iraqi regular forces. Dozens of rocket attacks or trapped drone attacks have targeted American troops and interests in Iraq in recent months. Never claimed, these attacks are systematically blamed by the United States on Iraqi pro-Iran factions.