Bye Bye Suleymani

Trump takes out Iran's terror-meister.

Kenneth R. Timmerman   Fri Jan 3, 2020  

The killing of Iranian terror-meister Qassem Suleymani in a targeted U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Thursday will have a dramatic impact on Iran’s ability to conduct oversea terrorist operations and the stability of the Iranian regime. But the real impact, one can legitimately wager, will be quite different from what you’ve been hearing so far from most of the U.S. and international media. Rather than engendering some massive Iranian “retaliation,” as many talking heads have been warning, I believe this strike will throw the Iranian regime back on its heels, as wannabe successors contemplate their careers vaporizing in a U.S. drone strike and Iran’s civilian leaders fret that they have been exposed as emperors without clothes. Put simply, the aura of the Iranian regime’s invincibility is over. They have pushed us and our allies repeatedly, and have been encouraged by the modest response from U.S. political and military leaders until now. But with this strike, the gloves are off. And the leadership in Tehran – and more importantly, the people of Iran – can see it. Suleymani was not some run-of-the-mill terrorist. He was worst of the worst; a man with more blood on his hands than even Osama bin Laden. Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Afghanistan, 9/11, Benghazi: all of them were his doing. But he was also the most respected and the only charismatic military leader to have emerged since the 1979 Islamist revolution in Iran.........To Read More....


My Take - In spite of all the sabre rattling and hostile rhetoric coming out of Iran, this has to shake them badly.  This means America has "eyes" on everyone in their leadership, and has the technology to take out anyone they please.  More importantly, this was a moving target that wasn't a random strike.  They had to know he was there and when he was going to be there.  That meant intelligence agents on the ground.  Intelligence agents that are potentially high up in their system.   That has to scare them even more.