Unbelievable Airstrike Caught On Closed Circuit Television Shows The Killing of Abu Baqir al-Saadi

A senior commander from Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq that the Pentagon linked to an attack that killed three US troops, died in a drone strike on a vehicle in eastern Baghdad, according to security sources and media reports.

One of the sources said three people were killed and that the vehicle targeted on Wednesday night was used by Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a state security agency composed of dozens of armed groups, many of them close to Iran.

Al-Saadi was the commander in charge of Kataib Hezbollah’s drone operations in Syria, and so is likely to be the mastermind of the 27 January attack.

The US said there were “no indications of collateral damage or civilian casualties at this time”, adding: “The United States will continue to take necessary action to protect our people. We will not hesitate to hold responsible all those who threaten our forces’ safety.”

I go back and forth about the use of airstrikes in highly populated areas. You wanna take these dudes out on a remote road, knock yourself out (obviously if you have the proof which the US did here). But we've seen FAR too many innocent civilians around the globe getting targeted lately. I am very much against that. 

However,,,,,, HOWEVER, if you are a bad guy, like this fella, you deserve to have a hellfire missle coming at the backseat of your car as you cruise down the road listening to Creed or whatever. Probably a HUGE Kings of Leon guy too. Hezbollah dudes are pretty behind the times of pop culture music. It's pretty sad. I don't even think that dude has a Spotify account and he never will. His year-end wrap-up came courtesy of the red, white, and blue. Shoutout Toby Keith. 

Anyway, it doesn't seem like these kinda strikes will slow down anytime soon since there have been 150 attacks on US troops since the Israel/Palestine conflict started. 150. President Biden responded and gave out the playbook going forward. 

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“Our response began today,” President Biden said after that first wave of attacks. “It will continue at times and places of our choosing," which is pretty much par for the course. Drone strikes, baby. It's what we do. 

President Obama, by reports from the UN, ordered 563 drone strikes over his eight years in places like the Horn of Africa, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. 

President Trump ordered 300+ in the first two years in places like Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

We be bombing. 

Again, we kill nothing but the bad guys like in the video above, sign me up. We kill civilians while killing the bad guys like in the video above, nah. No thank you. Pretty simple, IMO. 

PS: the fire tail on the back of the car reminds me of NBA Jam when you're on fire. Different kinda fire but still fire.