BREAKING: Iraq official TV announces IRGC Leader Qassem Suleimani ASSASSINATED!

by The Right Scoop

MAJOR UPDATE:

It’s being reported that Iraq’s official TV has announced that IRGC leader Qassem Suleimani has been assassinated!

It was being reported this within the last half hour that this was a US attack:

 
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In the last hour it appears three missiles and possibly a drone strike happened at the airport in Baghdad where there was a joint American Iraqi counter-terror center. There are reports that an SUV was struck, one man was killed and there may have been a military exercise going on in the air.

Here’s what we know…

Here’s a few photos that were posted on Twitter and apparently these aren’t the worst of them:

Here’s one that apparently shows casualties which has been scribbled through by the person posting it:

This could be from Iran. We don’t know yet but I suspect it’s a strong possibility…

UPDATE: Here’s the report from Al-Arabiya:

Three Katyusha rockets fell on Baghdad International Airport, the military-run Security Media Cell said in a statement on early Friday.

Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) said in a post on Facebook that its director of public relations was killed in what it described as “cowardly US bombing.”

The rockets landed near the air cargo terminal, burning two vehicles and injuring several citizens, Security Media Cell added.

At least one person was killed and nine others wounded, police and medical sources told Reuters.

Al-Arabiya reported the closure of Baghdad International Airport and the stoppage of air services following the explosions, especially the airport perimeter that injured several people.

A civilian car near the airport was also hit, killing the driver, the report said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

UPDATE: Here’s a report suggesting that American forces have entered the airport to take control of it:

UPDATE: Al Arabiya has updated to note that two “important guests” were being transporting when the attack occurred, killing both of them as well as two others:

Iraqi paramilitary groups say five of their members and two “guests” were killed in an air strike on their vehicles inside Baghdad airport.

The militia members were hosting “important guests” at Baghdad airport who were being driven in two militia vehicles that were struck by two rockets, said the militia sources.

Two militia sources said the two guests were also killed in the attack but declined to identify them.

UPDATE: There are new reports that this is actually a US air strike that took out Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Qud’s forces in Iraq:

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