by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT
With a strategy that seems evidently projected towards the construction of propaganda against Iran, the US Army has declassified the video of the attack that took place in January 2020 on the American base of Al Asad in Iraq. Former US President Donald Trump downplayed the damage caused by Iranian hyper-tech ballistic missiles in response to the US Air Force drone killing of General Qasem Soleimani. Journalistic investigations showed instead that there were at least 100 injured American soldiers with severe brain damage urgently transported to the US Air Force base in Germany.
Two weeks later Micheal D’Andrea, the CIA chief operating officer in the Middle East who planned the execution of Soleimani, was reportedly killed in the US Air Force plane that crashed, but more likely shot down, in Afghanustan.
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This comes after the Iranian government refused to return to the Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Agreement unless the US first lifted the asphyxiating sanctions imposed by Washington which first, during the Trump administration, withdrew from the JCPoA agreement. (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) on pressure from Israel, the only country in the Middle East to have multiple nuclear warheads that recently built a new nuclear factory.
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In response to the killing of Soleimani, commander of the Force Quds department of the Guards Corps of the Islamic Revolution (Pasdaran), Iran had increased the enrichment of uranium in the underground and almost impenetrable base of Qom. Not far from the mosque where the red flag of revenge was raised. Below the whole report by Iranian Press TV. This represents a further cause for concern in view of Pope Francis’ upcoming trip to Iraq scheduled for this weekend.
MISSILE ATTACK AL ASAD AIRBASE
by Press TV
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has declassified the aerial surveillance footage of Al-Assad Air Base in Iraq during Iran’s 2020 ballistic missile attacks on that facility in retaliation for the US assassination of top Iranian commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani.
The never-before-seen footage, shot by a drone orbiting overhead at the time, shows six ballistic missiles hitting the base.
The CENTCOM, which is the top command overseeing the US military activities in the Middle East, provided the video first to CBS News’ “60 Minutes” for a segment that aired this past weekend.
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The video starts by identifying five ramps at Al-Assad – named Bravo, Charlie, Foxtrot, Valley, and Voodoo – and the number of aircraft positioned at the time of the attack.
The on-screen notes also indicate that there are usually 10 aircraft on the flight-line and that 51 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters had evacuated the base ahead of the strikes.
Iran bombards two US bases in Iraq with hyper-technological missiles
The video then moves on to show two missiles hitting “expeditionary air maintenance facilities,” a formal term for “tension-membrane” clamshell-type hangars, on the Bravo ramp. A third missile slams into the Charlie ramp, damaging additional clamshell hangars, as well as offices, living spaces, dining facilities, and latrines.
The fourth missile strikes the Voodoo ramp, hitting more clamshell hangars, as well as a fuel bladder. The last two missiles seen in the footage strike the Charlie and Valley ramps, hitting a rescue operations center, as well as maintenance facilities, a gym, and a dining hall.
In January 2020, Iran launched the largest ballistic missile attack ever against Americans. 60 Minutes has obtained unreleased footage of the incoming warheads.
It’s not clear what type of drone filmed the video in question, but it is known that a number of US Army MQ-1C Gray Eagles were airborne at the time and that some were kept on station due to fears that a complex ground attack could follow the missile barrage, according to The Drive website.
However, the strikes damaged fiber optic lines connecting ground control stations at Al-Assad to satellite terminals, cutting them off from the unmanned aircraft overhead. This may also explain, in part, why only six of the missile impacts are seen in the footage.
US Army Major Alan Johnson, who was at the base during the incident, told “60 Minutes” that intelligence had indicated Iran was preparing to fire as many as 27 missiles at Al-Assad.
However, then-US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper had said following the January 2020 attack that 11 Qiam 1s had hit Al-Assad, in total.
Fabio is Director and Editor of Gospa News; a Christian Information Journal.
Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio, born on 24/2/1967 in Borgosesia, started working as a reporter when he was only 19 years old in the alpine area of Valsesia, Piedmont, his birth region in Italy. After studying literature and history at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, he became director of the local newspaper Notizia Oggi Vercelli and specialized in judicial reporting.
For about 15 years he is a correspondent from Northern Italy for the Italian newspapers Libero and Il Giornale, also writing important revelations on the Ustica massacre, a report on Freemasonry and organized crime.
With independent investigations, he collaborates with Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza in important investigations that conclude with the arrest of Camorra entrepreneurs or corrupt politicians.
In July 2018 he found the counter-information web media Gospa News focused on geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East, and military intelligence.
His articles were published on many international media and website as SouthFront, Reseau International, Sputnik Italia, United Nation Association Westminster, Global Research, Kolozeg and more…
His investigations was quoted also by The Gateway Pundit, Tasnim and others
He worked for many years for the magazine Art & Wine as an art critic and curator.
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What is painfully obvious from this footage is the incredible accuracy of the Iranian missiles. There is not along the Persian Gulf-certainly now well named-an oil facility, an airfield, a military base, docks, a refinery or even a ship afloat in the gulf itself that is safe from Iranian missiles. It might well behoove the saber rattlers to very carefully consider what the loss of Persian Gulf oil would mean to the world economy.
What a joy to watch !!! Popcorn please…
I know I am an inarticulate ass, my apologies. These guys are Veterans and deal with the barbs directly. I will not sing the praises of any party or politician blindly. Biden has been in the game long enough and the dirt collects and like radiation is cumulative. I can’t agree as presented that this release is Joe Biden’s way to show the American people that Iran is “bad”. It was released by the Pentagon, I do not know the channels but let’s assume with Biden’s blessing. What I see from this Iranian response legitimate, measured, precise and effective retaliation. Fabio is probably correct that the sheeple will see it his way
Pentagon released the declassified footage just for CBS (pro Biden) News report. This clue is more important than the same video…
I look at this release of video more of a condemnation of Trump, not so much as Biden continuation to portray Iran once again as the #1 evil terrorist nation.
It points out Iran gave warning and most of base evacuated. The US knew it had something coming and this was it.
Story not to be told is there WAS retaliation for this missle attack and it was in the form of a biological weapons (nanoteched deadly virus) attack on city of Qom, where unpenetrable nuclear base is, plus the Iranian government itself was attacked. 12 officials dead within days.
Both events in early February, with the Wuhan virus spreading to Iran virtually overnight the cover story and big , so the US not blamed for it.
“Cover story and big lie” I meant to write
Giuseppe Carlo Carisio are you serious. You are an utter ass if you think the Truth should be withheld ‘to protect the innocent’ is some kind of rational to thwart propaganda. That shit happened, and it happened because some Orange Ape thought he would look tough -and and he gets away with everything. In Trumps mind he has people to take care of such things. People need to understand what we did to Iran and Iraq when he took out general Soliamani and the Iraqi diplomats and this is a way to show the effectiveness of there response and what they are capable if we think we can continue to go down that path. Do you think for one second the (us) would not go ham on any country that pulled that shit on our top general. You can go to bed now Fabio.
May be for someone is easier writing bestial insults than understanding the article’s sense and geopolitics and military strategies. The truth is always important but sometimes it is more important the bad use of the truth for building a narrative against an enemy to provoke him in the hope of a new big war in Middle East. I suggest to some readers to sleep less behind his eyes closed by slices of ham…
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