January 07, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
The media continue to tell fairytales about
Qassem Soleimani and about Trump's decision
to assassinate him and PMU leader Abu Mahdi
al-Muhandis. Meanwhile the Resistance Axis
announced how it will avenge their deaths.
In their descriptions of Qassem Soleimani
U.S. media fail to mention that Soleimani
and the U.S. fought on the same side. In
2001 Iran supported the U.S. invasion of
Afghanistan. It used its good relations with
the Hazara Militia and the anti-Taliban
Northern Alliance, which both the CIA and
Iran had supplied for years, to support the
U.S. operation. The Wikipedia entry
for the
2001 uprising in Herat lists U.S.
General Tommy Franks and General Qassem
Soleimani as allied commanders.
The collaboration ended in 2002 after
George W. Bush named Iran as a member of his
"Axis
of Evil".
In 2015 the U.S. and Iran again
collaborated. This time to defeat ISIS in
Iraq. During the battle to liberate Tikrit
the U.S. air force flew in support of
General Soleimani's ground forces.
Newsweek
reported at that time:
While western nations, including the
U.S., were slow to react to ISIS's march
across northern Iraq, Soleimani was
quick to play a more public role in
Tehran's efforts to tackle the terror
group. For example, the commander was
seen in pictures with militiamen in the
northern Iraqi town of Amerli when it
was recaptured from ISIS last September.
...
Top U.S. general Martin Dempsey has said
that the involvement of Iran in the
fight against ISIS in Iraq could be a
positive step, as long as the situation
does not descend into sectarianism,
because of fears surrounding how Shia
militias may treat the remaining Sunni
population of Tikrit if it is
recaptured. The military chief also
claimed that almost two thirds of the
30,000 offensive were Iranian-backed
militiamen, meaning that without
Iranian assistance and Soleimani's
guidance, the offensive on Tikrit may
not have been possible.
It is deplorable that U.S. media and
politicians blame Soleimani for U.S.
casualties during the invasion of Iraq. Shia
groups caused only 17% of all U.S.
casualties and fought, like the Sadr
Brigades, without support from Iran. There
are also revived claims that Iran provided
the Iraqi resistance with Explosive Formed
Penetrators used in roadside bombs. But that
claim had been proven to be was false more
than 12 years ago.
