According to the Washington Post and their “unnamed” sources, on the same night we took out al-Quds leader Qassem Soleimani at the Baghdad airport, we also tried to take out the al-Quds leader in Yemen, Abdul Reza Shahla’i.
Shahla’i is said to have been involved in the plot to kill the Saudi ambassador inside the United States. That effort to kill Shahla’i failed – if the WaPo is to be believed.
Vegas lists the odds of that at 2 to 1 against.
The State Department has a 15 million dollar bounty on Abdul Reza Shahla’i. No details have been cited on what happened to the mission in Yemen or why it failed.
Remember, there is no confirmation that such an operation even took place. After all, it is the Washington Post, where ideology beats the truth seven days a week.
You can expect the propaganda to flow freely from the WaPo and the NYT during this election cycle that could be a disaster waiting to happen for the Democrats.
The Washington Post reported:
On the day the U.S. military killed a top Iranian commander in Baghdad, U.S. forces carried out another top secret mission against a senior Iranian military official in Yemen, according to U.S. officials.
The strike targeting Abdul Reza Shahla’i, a financier and key commander in Iran’s elite Quds Force who has been active in Yemen, did not result in his death, according to four U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The unsuccessful operation may indicate that the Trump administration’s killing of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani last week was part of a broader operation than previously explained, raising questions about whether the mission was designed to cripple the leadership of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or solely to prevent an imminent attack on Americans as originally stated.
U.S. military operations in Yemen, where a civil war has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, are shrouded in secrecy. U.S. officials said the operation against Shahla’i remains highly classified, and many declined to offer details other than to say it failed.
