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Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran s elite Quds military force and one of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic, was killed Thursday night in an airstrike in Baghdad, the U.S. Defense Department confirmed. The strike drew a vow of crushing revenge from Iran. In a statement, the Pentagon said President Trump ordered the decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel, accusing Soleimani of actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Friday morning that the threat to American lives was imminent. The Defense Department blamed So stanley quencher leimani for the deaths of hundreds of Americans, and said he was behind recent attacks on coalition bases in Iraq, including one on December 27 thatkilled an American defense contractor. This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans, said the Pentagon statement. Mr. stanley cup Trump s only direct response to the attack as of early Friday morning was a tweet with a photo of an American flag. pic.twitter/VXeKiVzpTfmdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump January 3, 2020 Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the head of the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces, was also killed in the strikes on an Iraqi base near Baghdad s airport, an Iraqi officia stanley cup l confirmed to CBS News. At least five other people were killed when at least three rockets hit near the airport early on Friday. Ira Tzhm Hillary Clinton says she rsquo ldquo;doing great rdquo; post-debate
Veteran CBS News White House Correspondent Bill Plante is the host of CBSNews s Smoke-Filled Room. Each week, Bill invites a top political expert into the Smoke-Filled Room to answer your questions. This week Bill has been joined by some of his CBS News colleagues in special dai stanley cups uk ly election edit stanley travel mug ions of SFR. Today s guest is his White House co-worker Correspondent Mark Knoller. Plante: Ralph Nader has been making inroads with Democratic voters, and therefore has been getting a lot of pressure to drop out of the race. stanley vaso So far he has refused, notes our first viewer, S.M. Do you think he will drop out at the last minute and ask his supporters to vote for Al Gore Why or why not Knoller: I believe Ralph Nader when he says he has no intention of dropping out at the last minute. He feels his candidacy offers American voters a choice and he ridicules Bush and Gore and being beholden to the same corporate special interests he 146 running to contain. If his candidacy means Gore loses, Nader says: so be it. Also, he has no love lost for either Bush or Gore because they went along with the system that locked him out of their three presidential debates. Plante: Tom writes, Both Al Gore and George W. Bush have military experience, albeit limited with Gore being a journalist, and Bush serving in the reserves. How important is having a military background to serving as President and Commander in Chief Knoller: Like any other exp
Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran s elite Quds military force and one of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic, was killed Thursday night in an airstrike in Baghdad, the U.S. Defense Department confirmed. The strike drew a vow of crushing revenge from Iran. In a statement, the Pentagon said President Trump ordered the decisive defensive action to protect U.S. personnel, accusing Soleimani of actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Friday morning that the threat to American lives was imminent. The Defense Department blamed So stanley quencher leimani for the deaths of hundreds of Americans, and said he was behind recent attacks on coalition bases in Iraq, including one on December 27 thatkilled an American defense contractor. This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans, said the Pentagon statement. Mr. stanley cup Trump s only direct response to the attack as of early Friday morning was a tweet with a photo of an American flag. pic.twitter/VXeKiVzpTfmdash; Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump January 3, 2020 Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the head of the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces, was also killed in the strikes on an Iraqi base near Baghdad s airport, an Iraqi officia stanley cup l confirmed to CBS News. At least five other people were killed when at least three rockets hit near the airport early on Friday. Ira Tzhm Hillary Clinton says she rsquo ldquo;doing great rdquo; post-debate
Veteran CBS News White House Correspondent Bill Plante is the host of CBSNews s Smoke-Filled Room. Each week, Bill invites a top political expert into the Smoke-Filled Room to answer your questions. This week Bill has been joined by some of his CBS News colleagues in special dai stanley cups uk ly election edit stanley travel mug ions of SFR. Today s guest is his White House co-worker Correspondent Mark Knoller. Plante: Ralph Nader has been making inroads with Democratic voters, and therefore has been getting a lot of pressure to drop out of the race. stanley vaso So far he has refused, notes our first viewer, S.M. Do you think he will drop out at the last minute and ask his supporters to vote for Al Gore Why or why not Knoller: I believe Ralph Nader when he says he has no intention of dropping out at the last minute. He feels his candidacy offers American voters a choice and he ridicules Bush and Gore and being beholden to the same corporate special interests he 146 running to contain. If his candidacy means Gore loses, Nader says: so be it. Also, he has no love lost for either Bush or Gore because they went along with the system that locked him out of their three presidential debates. Plante: Tom writes, Both Al Gore and George W. Bush have military experience, albeit limited with Gore being a journalist, and Bush serving in the reserves. How important is having a military background to serving as President and Commander in Chief Knoller: Like any other exp