Al Qods Brigades chief Gen. Soleimani seriously injured in Iraq by ISIS suicide squad

Al Qods Brigades chief Gen. Soleimani seriously injured in Iraq by ISIS suicide squad

Gen. Qassem Soleimani, commander-in-chief of the Iranian
Revolutionary Guards’ elite Al Qods Brigades, and senior officer of
Iranian forces in Iraq, was seriously injured in a targeted attack by an
ISIS suicide squad, debkafile reports from military and intelligence sources in the Gulf.

The attack took place near Samarra in central Iraq, after agents of
the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant managed to infiltrate his command
staff and get close enough to their target before blowing themselves up.
The date of the assassination attempt has not been revealed.

Soleimani, 58, who is a member of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei’s closest circle and a pivotal figure in Iranian military and
intelligence, was rushed to hospital in Tehran.

In an exclusive report Tuesday, Jan. 13, debkafile first revealed that ISIS had adopted a new tactic
of systematically targeting top officers fighting them in Iraq,
especially the Iranians, in order to sow confusion and panic among the
men under their command.

Soleimani won the epithet in the West as Iran’s Shadow Commander for
pulling the strings of his country’s clandestine espionage and terrorist
operations outside its borders. For nine years, he has masterminded
Iran’s military and political involvement in three conflicts, starting
with the Hizballah-Israel war of 2006, the nearly four years of Syria’s
bloody conflict and the war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria.Gen. Soleimani it was who laid down the strategy Iran adopted in all these military interventions.

His latest project was a major effort to weld all of Iraq’s Shiite
militias into a single popular army, after coming to the conclusion that
the national Iraqi army was past rebuilding as a regular military fit
for combat operations after its elite division fell apart in its first
confrontation with ISIS. The US had invested $25 billion in rebuilding
the Iraqi army.

Tuesday, debkafile
reported that ISIS had managed to wipe out the forward command group of
an Al Qods Brigades commando force early Monday, Jan. 12, killing its
commander, Gen. Mehdi Norouzi. His chief is now in bad shape after a jihadist attack using the same modus operandi.

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