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Iraq: Iran-backed jihadis claim US plot to exploit coronavirus pandemic, threaten American facilities in the region

Mar 29, 2020 11:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

In a propaganda move ostensibly to justify planned jihad attacks against U.S. facilities across Iraq:

Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shiite militia group that killed an American civilian contractor in December while launching terrorist rocket attacks against Iraqi military bases, issued a statement on Wednesday accusing the U.S. military of using the coronavirus pandemic as cover to attack its own bases. Iran’s Fars news agency uncritically quoted the Kata’ib Hezbollah statement, which included threats to respond with “full force” to any U.S. move by attacking American “military, security, and economic facilities” across Iraq

Although Iran appeared to be scaling back jihad activity because of the coronavirus, the U.S. military rightly suspects that the regime could become even more dangerous.

“Iran-Backed Iraqi Terrorists Claim ‘U.S. Plot to Exploit Coronavirus Pandemic,'” by John Hayward, Breitbart, March 26, 2020:

Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shiite militia group that killed an American civilian contractor in December while launching terrorist rocket attacks against Iraqi military bases, issued a statement on Wednesday accusing the U.S. military of using the coronavirus pandemic as cover to attack its own bases.

Iran’s Fars news agency uncritically quoted the Kata’ib Hezbollah statement, which included threats to respond with “full force” to any U.S. move by attacking American “military, security, and economic facilities” across Iraq:

In the current difficult situation, when Iraq has mobilized all its resources to contain the spread of the coronavirus and the popular forces are busy helping the government in the battle, the PMU has been monitoring “suspicious moves by US forces and their mercenaries,” who intend to exploit the pandemic and advance certain plots in the country, the statement said.

The US plans to conduct heliborne operations backed up by ground troops and fighter jets against positions belonging to security agencies and positions of Iraq’s resistance groups, the statement added.

The statement further said that certain Iraqi military and security forces would participate in the operation.

Kata’ib Hezbollah also warned against the dangerous consequences of such a raid, saying it would worsen the health crisis in Iraq and bring about a humanitarian and social disaster there.

The terrorists vowed bloody revenge against any Iraqis they decide are “collaborating” with the United States.

“The Iraqi side will be treated like an enemy, and its betrayal and crime will never be forgiven … and will be heavily punished according to law,” the group said.

Unsurprisingly, Kata’ib Hezbollah is still upset by the deaths of their deputy chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Iranian terrorist mastermind Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike the United States conducted to retaliate for the militia’s attacks on American positions and the unsuccessful siege of the U.S. embassy organized by Soleimani.

The Iran-backed militia group denied involvement in several more recent rocket attacks, including one conducted against an Iraqi police and military command center in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone on Thursday. The command center is located only a few hundred yards away from the U.S. Embassy….

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  1. A Gnostic Agnostic says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 11:32 am

    Once again: the enemy is projecting their own behavior onto their adversaries. They want people to “believe” the U.S. is exploiting COVID-19 whereas the House of Islam is doing just that, despite having openly admitted that COVID-19 is a “soldier of Allah” as well as the reality of Islamic nations taking as heavy losses as any other (despite their attempts to hide it from the public eye).

    House of Islam = ‘the accuser is the accused’

    Knowing the House of Islam / Deep State / Muslim Brotherhood requires scapegoating their own crimes against humanity onto others is all that is needed to see through the geopolitical “narrative” humanity is being force-fed by Saudi-owned-and-operated Twitter/FB and all the major news media outlets. They are all ‘goyim’ for the House of Islam.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 29, 2020 at 11:48 am

      Psychological Projection: accusing your opponent of doing what you in fact are doing. A person who is rude will typically claim that his opponents are rude.

      Jihadists typically accuse kafirs of trying to destroy Islam in various ways, when in reality, most non-Muslims COULDN’T CARE LESS about Islam and have no thoughts on the subject and just want people to get along.

      Psychological Projection is a form of PARANOIA … “is an unfounded or exaggerated distrust of others, sometimes reaching delusional proportions. Paranoid individuals constantly suspect the motives of those around them, and believe that certain individuals, or people in general, are “out to get them.”

      Jihadists are typically paranoid about the DIRTY KUFAAR and Jews in particular. Islam disorders the mind and emotions through self-hypnosis leading to paranoid ideation.

      • A Gnostic Agnostic says

        Mar 29, 2020 at 12:13 pm

        Spot-on: psychological projection is the biblical equivalent to the ‘Mark of Cain’: to draw from ones own nature (ie. tiller from the ground) and project it in the form of an accusation against others.

        The House of Islam is a ‘marked’ house: the world needs to understand this pathology if they are to ever understand what makes Islam Islam – ‘the accuser is the accused’.

        “Islamophobia” is one such example – Muhammadans have an irrational fear of the unreality of their belief such to accuse others of having the same if/when stirred with words. This projection is the true illness humanity is facing. COVID-19 is an instrument of jihad perpetrated by the Deep State / Muslim Brotherhood (by their own admission).

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 29, 2020 at 9:32 pm

      Yes–this is projection.

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 11:50 am

    This is simply a “PERSECUTION FANTASY”.

    Poke a bear and the bear will react.

  3. gravenimage says

    Mar 29, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    Iraq: Iran-backed jihadis claim US plot to exploit coronavirus pandemic, threaten American facilities in the region
    ………………

    Gee–what a shocker…sarc/off

  4. Westman says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 3:21 am

    If Iran and Hezbollah believe they can get away with attacking a US installation again, well, go for it and see what happens.

    The National Guard of the US is actively involved in service against Covid-19 and patriotism is increasing as the nation is now involved in a cooperative operation that needs government help to defeat the disease. The US is like a couple who don’t get along well and then a stranger intervenes in one of their fights and suddenly they both turn on the stranger. Beware Iranian Mullahs. Iran would unify the US with any attack and it would mean the end of your regime with a vengeance.

    • James Lincoln says

      Mar 30, 2020 at 9:56 am

      A correct analysis, Westman.

  5. Giacomo Latta says

    Mar 30, 2020 at 9:54 am

    Heads up, civilian planes.

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