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BAGHDAD - Mawazine News
A week after the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander, Qassem Soleimani, was liquidated with a US strike in Baghdad, the "Le Figaro" newspaper reviews key questions related to the operation.
How was Qasim Soleimani traced from Beirut to Baghdad?
On Thursday morning, January 2, the Quds Force Commander landed at Damascus Airport in Syria before heading to Beirut. In Lebanon, post-mortem photos on social networks show that he met Hassan Nasrallah, who is also traced but by Israel, who heads Hezbollah. And we notice Nasrallah without the black turban. For a few hours, they were discussing the growing tension in Iraq.
At the end of the afternoon, Soleimani went to Damascus, where he boarded the flight of SAW501 of Al-Sham Wings Airlines flying to Baghdad, which was supposed to take off at 8:20 pm but was delayed until 10:18 pm. The US Treasury Department had imposed penalties on that airline for "transporting military equipment to Syria", and in mid-December, the Syrian Ministry of Transportation froze assets of its owner, businessman Issam Shammout. Among the passengers, we find the Iranian general surrounded by many collaborators. The plane landed at 12:32 after midnight in the cargo area of Baghdad Airport. According to an Iraqi source in Baghdad, told the "Lovegaro" newspaper, "Soleimani did not pass through the travel hall." To enter Iraq, Soleimani does not need a visa, whether it is through the airport or through the border crossings between the two countries.
At the airport that evening, he was greeted by his right arm, the Iraqi Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who heads the Hezbollah Brigades, who killed an American contractor at an Iraqi base, a few days earlier. After that, the two men and their accompanying delegation exchanged a few words in the "presidential" hall. "Not that of the airport, but of another bigger hall, where Saddam Hussein was hosting his distinguished visitors," says the Iraqi source.
A few minutes later, the two men boarded the same car, Toyota Avalon, which crushed it at 12:45 am Hellfire missile fired by a drone. According to the Iraqi police investigation, the shell landed on Abu Mahdi, tearing his body apart.
Where did the plane take off?
During the afternoon of Thursday, January 2, a team of Americans went to the airport to stop civilian radars, a former Iraqi lawmaker told "Le Figaro". "Maybe the Americans wanted to separate the radar memory to erase all traces of the drone strikes," says an aviation specialist. These radars were delivered by the American company Raytheon. A MQ-9 Reaper droning plane was used in the assassination of Soleimani. With regard to the place of departure of the plane, there are two possibilities: Kuwait but most likely it originated from Qatar, where there is the largest American base in the Middle East, the place from which the drones usually fly. The next day, Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani headed to Tehran.
For its part, Iran is keen to maintain its relations with Qatar. "It was important for Qatar to save face," said a Gulf expert in Paris. Immediately after the drone hit, a team of Iraqis close to Iran searched the airport, according to a witness who arrived on another flight. The authorities in Baghdad also arrested Syria, a member of the crew, an Iraqi, and a person working for the Iraqi National Intelligence Service - the foreign intelligence agency close to the United States. The airport security company, the British inspection company G4S, which operates under the authority of the National Security Agency, is involved in airport security with Iraqi intelligence.
Did Israel play a role in eliminating Soleimani?
When Donald Trump decided to eliminate Qassem Soleimani, shortly after trying to attack the US embassy in Baghdad on December 31, US intelligence agencies, which had been tracking him for a long time, did not have the exact location of their target, according to the American press. But the "big ears" of the Pentagon or the CIA knew that the Iranian was traveling in the Middle East.
Did the Mossad, during the observation of Hassan Nasrallah, provide the site of Soleimani while he was passing through Beirut?
Initially, Israel was somewhat conservative about liquidating one of its main enemies. Many experts doubt that the United States needed Israeli assistance.
One of these experts says: "Israeli assistance may be important in a region where there are few American means of sensing or in a region where they need to deploy human intelligence resources, which does not apply to Iraq and Lebanon."
Did he bring a calm letter to Saudi Arabia?
This was confirmed by the resigned Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, before parliament: "I was supposed to meet Soleimani the day he was killed. He came to deliver a message from Iran in response to the message that we sent from Saudi Arabia to Iran." Therefore, Soleimani’s journey was on regular lines, and the number of his security apparatus was small. But for the United States, Soleimani was far from working as a mediator between Riyadh and Tehran, and the goal of his coming was to prepare for a campaign of attacks against Americans in Iraq. However, Washington could not provide any evidence to support this hypothesis.
When “Lovigaro” asked a European diplomat in Baghdad, the latter did not believe what Adel Abdel Mahdi said, for him, Saudi Arabia and Iran are communicating through Pakistan or Japan. The aforementioned Iraqi MP says: "I met him several times in Tehran when I was due to be appointed as a minister a few years ago. Soleimani knew all the details of Iraqi political life. He spoke Arabic well, and we were talking to him about it, but he was answering us in the Persian language. When he We let him go, he was riding in the Peugeot that he was driving without an apparently large security apparatus. He was feeling untouchable. ”Ended 29 / A 43
A week after the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Commander, Qassem Soleimani, was liquidated with a US strike in Baghdad, the "Le Figaro" newspaper reviews key questions related to the operation.
How was Qasim Soleimani traced from Beirut to Baghdad?
On Thursday morning, January 2, the Quds Force Commander landed at Damascus Airport in Syria before heading to Beirut. In Lebanon, post-mortem photos on social networks show that he met Hassan Nasrallah, who is also traced but by Israel, who heads Hezbollah. And we notice Nasrallah without the black turban. For a few hours, they were discussing the growing tension in Iraq.
At the end of the afternoon, Soleimani went to Damascus, where he boarded the flight of SAW501 of Al-Sham Wings Airlines flying to Baghdad, which was supposed to take off at 8:20 pm but was delayed until 10:18 pm. The US Treasury Department had imposed penalties on that airline for "transporting military equipment to Syria", and in mid-December, the Syrian Ministry of Transportation froze assets of its owner, businessman Issam Shammout. Among the passengers, we find the Iranian general surrounded by many collaborators. The plane landed at 12:32 after midnight in the cargo area of Baghdad Airport. According to an Iraqi source in Baghdad, told the "Lovegaro" newspaper, "Soleimani did not pass through the travel hall." To enter Iraq, Soleimani does not need a visa, whether it is through the airport or through the border crossings between the two countries.
At the airport that evening, he was greeted by his right arm, the Iraqi Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who heads the Hezbollah Brigades, who killed an American contractor at an Iraqi base, a few days earlier. After that, the two men and their accompanying delegation exchanged a few words in the "presidential" hall. "Not that of the airport, but of another bigger hall, where Saddam Hussein was hosting his distinguished visitors," says the Iraqi source.
A few minutes later, the two men boarded the same car, Toyota Avalon, which crushed it at 12:45 am Hellfire missile fired by a drone. According to the Iraqi police investigation, the shell landed on Abu Mahdi, tearing his body apart.
Where did the plane take off?
During the afternoon of Thursday, January 2, a team of Americans went to the airport to stop civilian radars, a former Iraqi lawmaker told "Le Figaro". "Maybe the Americans wanted to separate the radar memory to erase all traces of the drone strikes," says an aviation specialist. These radars were delivered by the American company Raytheon. A MQ-9 Reaper droning plane was used in the assassination of Soleimani. With regard to the place of departure of the plane, there are two possibilities: Kuwait but most likely it originated from Qatar, where there is the largest American base in the Middle East, the place from which the drones usually fly. The next day, Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani headed to Tehran.
For its part, Iran is keen to maintain its relations with Qatar. "It was important for Qatar to save face," said a Gulf expert in Paris. Immediately after the drone hit, a team of Iraqis close to Iran searched the airport, according to a witness who arrived on another flight. The authorities in Baghdad also arrested Syria, a member of the crew, an Iraqi, and a person working for the Iraqi National Intelligence Service - the foreign intelligence agency close to the United States. The airport security company, the British inspection company G4S, which operates under the authority of the National Security Agency, is involved in airport security with Iraqi intelligence.
Did Israel play a role in eliminating Soleimani?
When Donald Trump decided to eliminate Qassem Soleimani, shortly after trying to attack the US embassy in Baghdad on December 31, US intelligence agencies, which had been tracking him for a long time, did not have the exact location of their target, according to the American press. But the "big ears" of the Pentagon or the CIA knew that the Iranian was traveling in the Middle East.
Did the Mossad, during the observation of Hassan Nasrallah, provide the site of Soleimani while he was passing through Beirut?
Initially, Israel was somewhat conservative about liquidating one of its main enemies. Many experts doubt that the United States needed Israeli assistance.
One of these experts says: "Israeli assistance may be important in a region where there are few American means of sensing or in a region where they need to deploy human intelligence resources, which does not apply to Iraq and Lebanon."
Did he bring a calm letter to Saudi Arabia?
This was confirmed by the resigned Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, before parliament: "I was supposed to meet Soleimani the day he was killed. He came to deliver a message from Iran in response to the message that we sent from Saudi Arabia to Iran." Therefore, Soleimani’s journey was on regular lines, and the number of his security apparatus was small. But for the United States, Soleimani was far from working as a mediator between Riyadh and Tehran, and the goal of his coming was to prepare for a campaign of attacks against Americans in Iraq. However, Washington could not provide any evidence to support this hypothesis.
When “Lovigaro” asked a European diplomat in Baghdad, the latter did not believe what Adel Abdel Mahdi said, for him, Saudi Arabia and Iran are communicating through Pakistan or Japan. The aforementioned Iraqi MP says: "I met him several times in Tehran when I was due to be appointed as a minister a few years ago. Soleimani knew all the details of Iraqi political life. He spoke Arabic well, and we were talking to him about it, but he was answering us in the Persian language. When he We let him go, he was riding in the Peugeot that he was driving without an apparently large security apparatus. He was feeling untouchable. ”Ended 29 / A 43
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