Why The U.S. Considered Soleimani ‘Untouchable’ For Years Before His Assassination
Soleimani thought he was untouchable, and for more than a decade he was./ One afternoon in Baghdad in the final months of 2007, a few members of a U.S. special operations task force were monitoring the feed from a Predator drone over the Iraqi capital, scanning for signs of trouble, when they spotted a large crowd gathering in the neighborhood of Sadr City./ From their large, air-conditioned tent near Baghdad International Airport, the operators sprang into action. They belonged to Task Force 17, which focused on combating the ...
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