This afternoon while visiting South Carolina, Commander-in-Thief Joe Biden vowed "We Shall Respond to the attack that killed US Soldiers in Jordan." Many wonder if he's preparing more pallets of cash for Iran?
Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin issued a statement:
“I am outraged and deeply saddened by the deaths of three of our U.S. service members and the wounding of other American troops in an attack last night against U.S. and Coalition forces, who were deployed to a site in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border to work for the lasting defeat of ISIS. These brave Americans and their families are in my prayers, and the entire Department of Defense mourns their loss.
Iran-backed militias are responsible for these continued attacks on U.S. forces, and we will respond at a time and place of our choosing.
The President and I will not tolerate attacks on American forces, and we will take all necessary actions to defend the United States, our troops, and our interests.”
While Austin is openly blaming Iran, far different information is coming out of Iraq. Iraqi sources say the killing of US soldiers did not happen in a vacuum; It was a reaction to the US targeting and killing of Iraqi resistance group commanders. So Iraq information is all but confirming it was Iraq, and NOT Iran!
ATTACK WAS IN SYRIA, NOT JORDAN!
While CENTCOM says three US forces have been killed in an attack against "a base in northeast Jordan, near the Syria border" a source from the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, the coalition of Iran-backed groups, told AJArabic the US troops were killed in their base "in Syria."
"The attack that killed three American soldiers targeted the US al-Tanf base in Syria not on the soil of Jordan" the Jordanian government spokesman Muhannad al Mubaidin told Jordanian public broadcaster al Mamlaka television.
Of course, truth, facts, and Intelligence information has nothing at all to do with our US federal government. They have a "narrative" and they're clearly running with it.
The biggest mouth so far? Lindsey Graham:
I don't know why the Voters in South Carolina keep putting this mutt back into office. Maybe those voters should put him back on a leash or something, since he is clearly one of the rabid dogs of war. "Bomb this one . . . . Bomb that one . . . . hit this other one." The guy is a one man chorus of war war war. It's embarrassing, really.
Here's another political dingbat:
The time for tit-for-tat responses with proxies has long passed.
— Senator Pete Ricketts (@SenatorRicketts) January 28, 2024
President Biden must strike Iranian military assets to restore deterrence or risk more American lives to be slain by Iran and its proxies. https://t.co/kxjuTbm1uU
As of 4:00 PM EST Sunday, there is intensive American military aircraft activity flying near the Al Tanf military base, with continuous Reconnaissance aircraft activity near the Iraqi-Syrian borders (inside Iraqi territory).
UPDATE 6:09 PM EST --
The attack carried out today targeting U.S. troops was ALLEGEDLY launched from the Imam Ali military base in the vicinity of Al-Bukamal city.
The Imam Ali base is considered one of the prominent military bases for "Iran-backed" militias, strategically located between Iraq and Syria.
UPDATE 9:10 PM EST --
I have been told why the entire US establishment is claiming that a US Base in JORDAN was hit, killing US soldiers when, in fact, it was the Al Tanf Base in Syria that was hit.
The US is falsely claiming it was "A US Base in Jordan" because that base (T-22) is LEGAL.
The Al-Tanf base, in Syria, IS NOT LEGAL.
The map below shows the two bases:
