Middle East Thread

[Dougie Do'ins]

Hamza Bin Laden 'killed in air strike'

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49187315

[Anubis]

He's bin laden to rest.

 

 

 

I'll get me coat.

[Red Phoenix]

Looks like the OPCW are in the shit.

 

I'm linking the Daily Fail. I don't want to but no other outlet is running this yet. Wikileaks just released a whistleblower email less than 2 hours ago and Peter Hitchens is the only reporter in the UK press to have covered this in detail so far : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7718627/Sexed-dossier-furore-alleged-poison-gas-attack-Assad.html

[cloggypop]

42 minutes ago, Red Phoenix said:

Looks like the OPCW are in the shit.

 

I'm linking the Daily Fail. I don't want to but no other outlet is running this yet. Wikileaks just released a whistleblower email less than 2 hours ago and Peter Hitchens is the only reporter in the UK press to have covered this in detail so far : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7718627/Sexed-dossier-furore-alleged-poison-gas-attack-Assad.html

The shit Corbyn got for this

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/14/jeremy-corbyn-calls-syria-airstrikes-legally-questionable

[Red Phoenix]

10 hours ago, cloggypop said:

The shit Corbyn got for this

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/14/jeremy-corbyn-calls-syria-airstrikes-legally-questionable

 

Looks like no other outlet has covered it so they'd probably give him the same shit if it happened again in the near future and pretend they were ignorant of the situation. At least Hitchens has had the courage to report it, maybe others will follow eventually.

[Numero Veinticinco]

I’d think twice about trusting the word of the Mail. 

[Red Phoenix]

33 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

I’d think twice about trusting the word of the Mail. 

 

I don't trust the Mail and think the outlet is a joke in general. I read the Hitchens article though and he seems to have covered it well enough, thought it contained more info than just linking the Wikileaks page too.

[Bjornebye]

I'd like NV to move to Allepo. 

[Bjornebye]

Completely forgot we had this thread. Ditch the other one. 

 

But yeah, Baghdad Airport car-park has just been attacked with rockets. 

[Bjornebye]

Leading Hezbollah leaders targeted by US strikes apparently. 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

 

[moof]

New decade, same old shit

[TheHowieLama]

Take it to the War with Iran - Imminent thread.

[Bjornebye]

5 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Take it to the War with Iran - Imminent thread.

I was gonna start an "Iran getting all Tehrangam up in this motherfucker" thread. 

[General Dryness]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

I was gonna start an "Iran getting all Tehrangam up in this motherfucker" thread. 

Iran and North Korea should have to play each other in a qualifier, winner gets to play the USA in the final.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

Qassim Soleimani is top level. He's Iran's main man in Iraq. There was a good documentary about him on the Beeb. 

 

This could have retaliatory consequences. 

[Bjornebye]

 

 

 

 

 

[cloggypop]

[moof]

It’s not all bad, at least somebody is coining it in 

 

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

Now, this is a thing that probably won't go unanswered. Dangerous times. 

[Rico1304]

I remember when Dennis told us Trump wouldn’t be as bloody thirsty as Obama.  I fear for his cell mate when this news gets into Pentonville. 

[clangers]

Predictable way to divert attention away from home in an election year, start a major conflict. I seem to recall a previous war was triggered by an assassination?

[ZonkoVille77]

If this somehow impacts us winning 19 then I'll personally take Trump out.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Pwopar nawty this!

[Moctezuma]

This is akin to the head of MI5/de facto foreign secretary being assassinated by another state, I think there will be significant repercussions to this,  in particular shipping in the gulf will be disrupted again and there may be more Iranian drone strikes on U.S allies in the region. Can't help but think that said US allies are probably not best impressed with this, if not surprised given the recent impeachment and the lack of foresight from this administration.