Never-before-seen video of the attack on Al Asad Airbase

originally posted by: crayzeed
a reply to: 727Sky
I find the scenario very hard to believe. To move 50 aircraft and helicopters is not a 5 minute job. They must have had very advanced warning not "oh, they've just launched a missile attack". And in that light the men on the ground would have moved out of harms way.

It's a matter of public record that Iran used back channels to warn America. They knew when and where the attack would be and had plenty of time to move men and equipment.

This was done deliberately by Iran because they wanted to demonstrate that they could hit an airbase, but they absolutely did not want to kill anybody because that would have pushed things to another level. Which they didn't want.

This was a warning, not a declaration of war.

originally posted by: AaarghZombies

originally posted by: crayzeed
a reply to: 727Sky
I find the scenario very hard to believe. To move 50 aircraft and helicopters is not a 5 minute job. They must have had very advanced warning not "oh, they've just launched a missile attack". And in that light the men on the ground would have moved out of harms way.

It's a matter of public record that Iran used back channels to warn America. They knew when and where the attack would be and had plenty of time to move men and equipment.

This was done deliberately by Iran because they wanted to demonstrate that they could hit an airbase, but they absolutely did not want to kill anybody because that would have pushed things to another level. Which they didn't want.

This was a warning, not a declaration of war.

They didn't use any back channels they just made their intentions obvious to spy sattelites.

Spy satellites had been tracking the movements of Iran’s arsenal of missile launchers, and communications among Iranian military leaders intercepted by the National Security Agency had indicated that the response to General Suleimani’s killing might come that day.

www.nytimes.com...

a reply to: Kocag

I found it odd that the news caster failed to mention that the killing of their general was a retaliatory attack. He made it seem like we did that for who knows why.

he is / was a trump hater, that's why. god forbid they give trump credit for sticking up for U.S. citizens and service members.
now if that would have been obama then they would still be singing the praises for him.

it's 60 mins man what did you expect.

"No one! 1 was killed"
Disinfomation for morale! or to piss off the ename.
they would not be happy to think they killed no one.

I think that was a bad call.
becuse it was a revendge attack.
as they Need to kill some one for revendge.
and if they think they faild.
they would try againe, and maybe some thing a lot bigger.