Iran again

[Corpsey]

Woah...

... particularly eerie to me as I'm re-reading Mao II and literally just read the chapter toward the end where a character watches Khomeini's funeral on TV and now I pull up Reuters and see this...

State TV had earlier stopped all its regular programming to show prayers being held for Raisi across the country and, in a corner of the screen, live coverage of rescue teams deployed on foot in the mountainous area in heavy fog.

I knew version would pick up on this

 

[Mr. Tea]

I was going to ask our very own Kate Mossad if 'her' buddies had been up to their old tricks, but that account no longer exists, which is pretty suspicious in itself if you ask me.

 

[version]

Wonder what Craner thinks of all this.

 

[luka]

Wonder what Craner thinks of all this.

👌

 

[Mr. Tea]

Wonder what Craner did to orchestrate all this.

 

[Clinamenic]

"💣👌"

-Oliver Craner

 

[Mr. Tea]

"💣👌"

-Oliver Craner

 

[version]

Can't stop watching this.

 

[shakahislop]

how the actual fuck are they able to locate all of these senior people and kill them. it’s a first no. a new ability.

 

[yyaldrin]

aren't they simply being bombed in the apartments that they live in with their families?

 

[shakahislop]

aren't they simply being bombed in the apartments that they live in with their families?

yeah but to know where they all are

 

[shakahislop]

like the US never managed to do that to mullah omar. they did manage to kill His successor, but they didn’t manage to kill Akhunzada after that. they never managed to kill Al Zawhiri (well at least when it would have been useful). took them Until after Mosul to kill Baghdadi

 

[hmg]

how the actual fuck are they able to locate all of these senior people and kill them. it’s a first no. a new ability.

My guess, Palantir.

 

[GhostofKinski]

yeah but to know where they all are

They are utterly ruthless. Their on the ground intelligence is at least as good if not superior to the U.S.’s. They have no compunction about innocent collateral damage. Not that the U.S. are angels. “We do the same shit but are much more likely to do so using a proxy so as to maintain plausible deniability.
Even Trump. In his first term had a chance to eliminate a high value target, but was briefed it would probably take out @ 10 family members and wouldn’t give the green light.


My brother in law was in Fallugah when in his own words (albeit hyperbole) we “nucked” them. The difference. We made sure we gave the Iraqi no combatants safe passage before hand out of the city. Then the Marines & Rangers went in and killed everyone who stayed.