First US troops killed in Mideast since start of Gaza war

originally posted by: SourGrapes
a reply to: CriticalStinker

Wouldn't they notice an extra drone flying in?

You’d hope so.

But the early reports are from anonymous sources, so I’m not putting too much stock in them.

a reply to: SourGrapes

The base is home to an engineering division. They, at best, have a small AD detachment, with only C-RAM. Depending on how close it was to their UAV that came back in they may have simply made a mistake and misidentified it as theirs and assumed the second contact was a ghost. Or correctly identified theirs, and the other as the ghost.

why are US troops still in the middle east? Must be spoiling for a fight...again. Go Home US

originally posted by: ohahhupthera
why are US troops still in the middle east? Must be spoiling for a fight...again. Go Home US

What? Like let the Iranian's have a free hand to invade Israel, Egypt and into Africa? Somebody needs to stop Iran and if the it's the Yanks then good

Sources saying Biden will authorize military as soon as tonight.

No confirmation yet.

originally posted by: JinMI
Sources saying Biden will authorize military as soon as tonight.

No confirmation yet.

Unless its to kill the top leaders, all the action will do is cause more terror attacks upon Americans. The 36 killed by Iran proxies between Israel, Syria, and Jordan, will be minor losses by comparison to what will come.

The three hero servicemembers killed by the reverse-engineered drone are Black.

Photos: gettr.com...

I'm sure Joe Biden is relieved. The racist scumbag has ignored all Blacks killed in Chicago, LA, NewYork, etc..

originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: opethPA

Biden is the god-damned, mother-#ing president.

HE sits in the big chair, HE owns this sh!te!

Yep, he owns it. We got bombed 160 times and he said ..........DON'T. Now 3 soldiers are dead and at least 40 injured.

Dude is a dumb arse.

originally posted by: SourGrapes

originally posted by: WingDingLuey
anybody hear this? 😬

The Drone that killed 3 American military members and injuring more than 25 was mistakenly thought to be one of our military Drones that was due back to land around that same time calling into question how much Intel does Iran and their proxies have on American military bases.

"Mistaken" for a U.S. military drone, because it WAS a U.S. military drone?

Or, was it hacked?

Yeah crazy. If they knew we had one drone coming in, what did they think the 2nd one was? More standard confusion and simpleton explanations and excuses for failure. Those drones operate on independent frequencies. 😀 And they HAD to be on alert since there's been dozens off attacks lately right? 😃

a reply to: WingDingLuey

You’re talking about an engineering company, not a dedicated air defense company. These are probably people that had enough training to be able to operate the equipment, but not the expertise an AD company would have.

originally posted by: WeMustCare
The three hero servicemembers killed by the reverse-engineered drone are Black.

Photos: gettr.com...

I'm sure Joe Biden is relieved. The racist scumbag has ignored all Blacks killed in Chicago, LA, NewYork, etc..

WTH does color have to do with it?

originally posted by: WeMustCare

originally posted by: JinMI
Sources saying Biden will authorize military as soon as tonight.

No confirmation yet.

Unless its to kill the top leaders, all the action will do is cause more terror attacks upon Americans. The 36 killed by Iran proxies between Israel, Syria, and Jordan, will be minor losses by comparison to what will come.

You applied the same logic to any attack that occured under Trump , Obama and any other POTUS right?

a reply to: Zaphod58

it's not just a engineering company. they also fly drones out of there and as i said it's hinted to be a spec ops base.

The attack targeted a US military base known as Tower 22 in north-eastern Jordan, near the Syrian border. A defence official told the BBC's US partner CBS News that the enemy drone came in "very low and very slow" at the same time that an American drone was returning to the base from a mission.

The auto-response features of the base's air defence system were turned off so as not to shoot down the US drone, the official said. As a result, there was little to no warning for troops stationed at Tower 22, who were reportedly still in their sleeping quarters when the drone arrived. There are about 350 US forces stationed at the base, conducting key functions including supporting the coalition to defeat Islamic State, according to US Central Command (CentCom).

US drone attack: What is Tower 22 and why are US troops in Jordan?

and as i said before it's it's been hinted at it's a spec ops base as well,

Tower 22 began as a Jordanian outpost watching the border, then saw an increased U.S. presence there after American forces entered Syria in late 2015. The small installation includes U.S. engineering, aviation, logistics and security troops with about 350 U.S. Army and Air Force personnel deployed there.

The base’s location offers a site for American forces to infiltrate and quietly leave Syria. A small American garrison at al-Tanf in Syria is just 12 miles north of Tower 22. That base is along a Syrian highway leading into Iraq and ultimately Mosul, once a prominent base of the Islamic State group. It’s also a potential weapons shipment route over the road for Iran.
What is Tower 22, the base in Jordan where 3 US troops were killed?

originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: asabuvsobelow

You sound like Pelosi and McConnell.

You may not have noticed, but we directly caused this whole sh!tshow.

And now we are broke. We can't afford to keep doing this BS.

Mate we've been Broke Financially since before 2008 . If money actually mattered we'd be done for and yet here we are .

Money is nothing but a tool for the Powerful and Power is access to Oil , Aircraft Carriers and Divisions of Highly Trained Infantry . Power is access to Intelligence and an Orbiting Satellite Grid that can read an individuals Blood pressure.

If we take our foot off the Throat of Iran , then they will do exactly what they've wanted to do for decades.

a reply to: BernnieJGato

Still not an Air Defense company though. SpecOps isn't trained in AD either, although they might be a little better trained than an engineering company. Without a dedicated AD unit you're talking about people that are trained in basic operation, but not advanced operation, and more likely to miss something.

a reply to: BernnieJGato

Tower 22 is a FOB ' forward operating base ' .

We've been in a silent War with Syria and ISIS for years mate .

Problem is we have weak leadership and incompetent Military Leaders in charge at the moment and this is what you get . This is not some secret spooky base , We have bases like this all over the Mid-East .

Someone made a massive mistake and allowed this Drone into the airspace and paid the consequences.

HOW CRAZY IS THE LIBERAL MEDIA?

They're blaming U.S. military for bringing the drone attack upon itself!

Mix-up at US base may have led to deadly drone attack that killed 3 troops.

Source: www.usatoday.com...

Some kind of "Mix-up" caused Iran-supported terrorists to attack our troops with a drone, says USA Today.

IDIOTS!

originally posted by: CarlLaFong

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: stu119

You think he should attack Iran?

That would be a worrying escalation.

How about reinstating Trumps sanctions on Iran?
Would that sit well with you?

Weird because just last year SCOTUS weighed in on Turkish bank Halbank facing criminal charges for avoiding sanctions for giving Iran billions of dollars in cash and gold to Iran. The justices in a 7-2 decision threw out a lower court's ruling that had let the prosecution proceed. The court's majority ordered the Manhattan-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider Halkbank's effort to dismiss the case, but ruled out the bank's contention that was is protected under a 1976 U.S. law called the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA).

This has been ongoing. The Turkish president Erdogan had been pressing the US to not charge or fine them. It originally started when Turkey pressed for favors with the Obama administration. Erdogan was advised they were limited to what they can do, would not fire the prosecutor looking into it, nor extradite the person requested. VP Biden advised that If the president were to take this into his own hands, what would happen would be he would be impeached for violating the separation of powers.

Turkey then started to press Rudy Guiliani, Mike Flynn and Trump's first national security advisor Brian Ballard. When Trump was in office, Erdogan began to press the President.

On the second day of a trip to Buenos Aires in late 2018 for the annual Group of 20 gathering of world leaders, Mr. Trump met with Mr. Erdogan for talks intended to be focused on issues like continued tensions over Islamic State operations in Syria.But the conversation quickly went off course.

Mr. Erdogan made clear that he was frustrated with the continued pestering by Southern District prosecutors concerning Halkbank, and he wanted Mr. Trump to intervene to help wrap up the investigation, Mr. Bolton said in the interview.

Mr. Erdogan handed Mr. Trump a copy of a memo written by Halkbank’s lawyers explaining why Turkey believed the Justice Department had misconstrued U.S. sanctions law. It argued that Halkbank’s trading with Iran was not illegal, because it was largely based on trades of gold and food that were not in dollars and did not involve U.S. banks.

Mr. Trump flipped through the memo quickly, Mr. Bolton said.

“Well, it looks convincing to me,” Mr. Trump said

Six months earlier, Matthew G. Whitaker, the acting attorney general who ran the department from November 2018 until Mr. Barr arrived in February 2019, rejected a request from Mr. Berman for permission to file criminal charges against the bank, two lawyers involved in the investigation said. Mr. Whitaker blocked the move shortly after Mr. Erdogan repeatedly pressed Mr. Trump in a series of conversations in November and December 2018 to resolve the Halkbank matter.

At the White House, Mr. Trump’s handling of the matter became troubling even to some senior officials at the time.

The president was discussing an active criminal case with the authoritarian leader of a nation in which Mr. Trump does business; he reported receiving at least $2.6 million in net income from operations in Turkey from 2015 through 2018, according to tax records obtained by The New York Times.

And Mr. Trump’s sympathetic response to Mr. Erdogan was especially jarring because it involved accusations that the bank had undercut Mr. Trump’s policy of economically isolating Iran, a centerpiece of his Middle East plan.

NY Times

After some firing of attorneys in the Southern District and finally backlash after Turkey sent troops in to Syria charges were filed.

Billions to Iran, even with these sanctions you're speaking of.

a reply to: frogs453

“Mr. Bolton said”

That warmonger has zero credibility.
Discarded.