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Were interrupting programming to bring you some breaking news coming to us out of iraq and iran if youve been with us over the past few hours here on aljazeera youll know that theres been an incident a significant incident at a location adjacent to the Baghdad International airport which a but a Counterterrorism Center where several people have been killed following a targeted attack there as quote v. I. P. s were coming in to iraq where were now getting reports saying that a Senior Iranian commander. And an Iraqi Militia commander somebody called mohandas were killed in an air strike on a convoy at Baghdad Airport i should attribute this of course clearly as well to Iraqi State Television thats one aspect of course developing just in the past few minutes an Iraqi Militia spokesman is being quoted as well by the Reuters News Agency as saying and i quote americans and israelis were behind the killing of sulaimani and 100 s. So thats the Key Development so far also iraqi state t. V. Being course in on no other source saying that leading iranian commander of the money has been killed in the bank that attack so we are right up to date with the claims they will be counter claims of course they will be maybe claims responsibility maybe not to some a bunch of it is our correspondent in baghdad osama what do we know. Well peter in the last few hours youve been hearing these dramatic developments coming out of baghdad as weve been hearing about these rockets which were initially reported the 2 vehicles burning it appears to be the case that according to iraqi state t. V. Those vehicles were carrying the head of the court for scott and for their money as well as i will match the a 102nd in command for the popular globalization forces the shia militias who have been instrumental in fighting against isel and have been in the last few days in the forefront by launching this attack on the u. S. Embassy in baghdad so it is going to be a very very Significant Development because of the fact that both of these leaders are of really significant significance in standing not just in iraq about across this region and got accustomed to their money has been instrumental in in the fight against i saw in conjuring support for on ideological as a military grounds in not just iraq but syria and had developed this sort of folklore around them that every battle that costs insulin money takes part in is one by his side and again the other the person never met the n 100 these days someone will go on long history with a rainy and forces. And has been instrumental in fighting various insurgencies in iraq whether it was alive and then later i see and even against u. S. Forces in the early days of the u. S. Led invasion so it is going to be a Major Development as in the last 48 hours bill that has been on edge you saw those angry mobs attacking the u. S. Embassy the deployment of hundreds of additional troops to the region as well as the embassy then then they were back to the right bank of the tigris river and these developments tonight so it has been a rollercoaster few hours but this is going to be significant not just for iraq and iran but very important for the whole middle east is that and what should we make of these Iraqi Militia claims and they are just claims saying its the work of the americans and the israelis. But it does have the hallmarks of a very precise strike something that you would have used guided Missile Technology and would have fired missiles on the air by the initial reports and by the looks of it that is technology which is available to these forces im not sure how how much credible these reports would be that israel was involved in as we havent seen Israeli Aerial involvement inside iraq specifically there have been some in the israeli incursions into syria against it a me and targets multiple times with the seen them take out the tide as the law has the law in iraq as well as other shia militias who do not bring in city or other not in iraq by israel but inside iraq is a very heavy presence of the u. S. Forces condemnation that the u. S. Took out. The targets in al qaim against the law by the Iraqi Government and this would be a major blow to the relationship between the United States and the Iraqi Government which is again on the teetering edge of collapse because this is an interim government which is being forced out by protesters the Prime Minister has resigned and his government is only in place until a formal government takes charge so it is a very precarious political situation on this should these developments have taken place as well as security on the security front youve seen that israel is air erupt the state and nonstate actors have become really visible you saw how easy the problem over there is ition forces troops were able to march and without any sort of resistance by the Security Forces they were actually able to get off any presence of the Security Forces and surround the u. S. Embassy so it is going to be a very difficult transition for iraq to go through this. Its just coming out of the fight against i feel and then all of the political problems and the and discussed and Security Matters because these militias have become so powerful because these militias have become so entrenched in in the political system in iraq i think the next 24 hours are going to be playing significant for this country were also seeing osama u. S. Officials now being quoted by the Reuters News Agency as well saying the United States has carried out strikes against 2 top gets linked to iran in baghdad thats u. S. Officials being quoted by the Reuters News Agency so clearly if that is true the u. S. This is a reaction on the part of the United States to what happened what 3 days ago now to gnaw 3 days ago now when it came to the u. S. Compound Embassy Compound where the iranian militia the iranian backed militia walked and was allowed to walk right up virtually to the front door of the compound building. But yes there has been escalation in the last 48 hours to what happened at the u. S. Embassy you heard the u. S. President s bird saying that he iran will have to pay a heavy price for it and then later saying that he does not war want war with iran so it is going to be it is going to be interesting to see how iran reacts to this because taking out the commander of the ports force and international. Space. Dont have a jurisdiction is going to be something of real significance but this goes beyond the 48000 for the money has been somebody whos whos been instrumental in rallying support for irans Foreign Policy does they have been commanding these elite troops which are being effective throughout this crescent that iran controls all the real. Weve heard about his involvement in yemen hes a very very significant amounts hezbollah in lebanon on he has been one of the legendary commanders if you can call him that inside syria especially in the fight against isis and other groups in really gaining territory for. Force and then again also in iraq so hes somebody who had influence which was beyond iran which was going to throughout the region so there is going to be a reaction not just from tehran for his death theres going to be reaction from these countries as well and because hed been so instrumental in carrying out those attacks and making sure he was he was true promoting iranian Foreign Policy in those areas he has been something will fall on the side of both the Israeli Government as well as the United States but taking him out in a targeted assassination Baghdad Airport is something that i would imagine would come as a surprise to many including the ruling in iraq for some a do stay close to state near at hand will come back to i suspect in the coming few minutes but for the meantime thank you so much well some of that was highlighting for us the connections between this individual and tehran the government in tehran lets cross live now to the iranian capital my colleague door so jabar its door to any official or unofficial reaction yet where you are. A peter news is the long term terrorism in the middle of the night i. Imagine this kind of information would not come out until the authorities here are absolutely certain that the person is their general boss until the money this general is not just an ordinary military figure in iraq he is one of the most. Loved and famous figures in the Islamic Republic not only for his past in the military during the iraq war when he was a young man but his 0 stardom really in the ranks of the military and the formation of the 4th within the revolutionary guard. As 1 well his close relationship to the Supreme Leader hes one of the most closest allies and confidant of the Supreme LeaderAyatollah Khomeini hes received many accolades from the Supreme Leader hes received the only and the highest ranking military battle of all nerves from the Supreme Leader who is the commander in chief of the entire military and armed forces in iran so if this news turns out to be confirmed by the way it has far reaching ramifications it is going to unleash a kind of uncertainty and instability and reaction not only in iran but across the middle east that i think will surprise not only the americans and the israelis but many around the world ok we need to take this claim that it was the work of the americans and the israelis with a huge pinch of salt obviously osama was making the point we were talking to him out of baghdad that israel has never carried out an strike or Something Like this in iraq they have crossed the border into syria but a different discussion to do with a different part of the music of the middle east always those. Saying dorsey that the United States if it is the us has done this with the done this has the us going after him because they perceive him as being the man whos orchestrating running or leading the tape hezbollah that militia aligned with tehran backed by iran that was involved in what weve seen going on in the past week or so in fact that. Could be but i think its far greater than that if that is the case of what the americans. Then they underestimated the records of this figure. This man may have consulted various military groups in iraq. But certainly if this strike was carried out by the americans in iraq it also brings into question the role of iraq. I think the iranians have trusted has been relying on their relationships with the iraqis and they will question. Alliances lets say after the facts from this event come to light but since only money has been active. Knowledge this. Is providing a new units have been providing military aid and training to the Popular Mobilization forces in iraq there is persons really grew up during the height of i saw in iraq at the request of then Prime Minister maliki and a. Number of interviews that was shown around that time by the Prime Minister where he said he asked for help from the americans to fight because they were very close to reaching baghdad and the americans did not respond to this call and thats when the iranians respond that he said that money was in fact that within 2 hours with has forced us to make sure that not reach the gate back that these are the kinds of images that weve heard seen that weve heard about this figure of also he there was numbers been a number of attempted attacks on his life not only in other countries but also weaken iran just over the summer there was a report from the Intelligence Ministry here that they caught a network of people who actually purchased property next to the mosque in his hometown where he attended services whenever hes in the country that was a property that was purchased and people there had built a tunnel leading into this mosque and then explosives laid out underneath the surface of the basement area of this mosque. So there was a Large Network that spent very long time working on this plan to assassinate him so the money but according to the Intelligence Ministry here they managed to foil the attack. And capture a clear people that were trying to carry this out this is a man who has been very very much in the news over the past 2 years hes been under u. S. Sanctions his organization the revolutionary guards of the book force has been labeled a terrorist organization by the American Government he himself has been on there u. S. Sanctions behavior. That is not even new with the Trump Administration but he has said that himself doesnt really face him hes not one to Pay Attention to these kinds of things hes extremely extremely private she has never given an interview other than wants to talk about the hezbollah israel more. Just a few months ago over the summer where he spoke for over an hour about the significant significance of that war and his role in that war and how important it was to protect. And the shia minority in that area he sees any feelings of a figure that didnt have with a trying to protect the kind of minority groups is in the region within iran that he is i would say probably just as well known if not more than any other figure in the Islamic Republic has pictures are held with their implied. Card people have the city towards him hes a figure on like any other of them seem theyre on and i think if this news is confirmed it will be an extremely extremely. Dangerous dangerous event that will change the course of history in this region does this also represent something of a coming problem for the iranian government also in as much as this man clearly a survivor clearly somebody who managed to live the ebb and flow of iranian politics because were talking about somebody who fought in the iran iraq war that was an 8 year long vicious conflict and yet as you just made the point a few minutes ago he was invited in to iraq to help in the fight against isis or so he must have had a skill set that the iraqis and therefore the americans thought we could work with this guy i guess maybe at a distance and yet now the u. S. Obviously seeing him as a very very high value target but his web of influence has that gone if he has gone or is that still there and will that be run by somebody else. Its very hard to say but i doubt it will be gone completely because he was such a. Commanding figure and he had such a huge following. It would be very difficult to imagine but he would just his influence would just disappear with his death if that was the case but i think there are many who worked with him he had a network of commanders and i imagine there would be somebody to replace him in such a scenario but i think it would be somebody that would not be a new saying. Lets say ray scale of. Not of a well known subject well known figure as him he has been alongside the Supreme Leader ayatollah ali how many became the Supreme Leader 99 of us until the money can be seen in photographs from even before then alongside the Supreme Leader and even the founder of the Islamic Republic i tell the khomeini so. Who has the history he has the experience he has the leading edge that links him to the i had to stop listening to in iran i am certain there are others that will step that could step in but. He is something of an enigma hes been hes been very private and reclusive so there is that air of mystery around him as well as maybe people in the Islamic Republic. With his name is mentioned there is a sense of pride just because of his history in the country and there and outside the country many attribute the fact that i still was not able to step into a ring in the rain in soil because of our sins of the money that he is one of the main protectors of the borders of this country so its very hard to imagine somebody else right now but im sure they will be somebody to fill in his shoes. But not to the same level as concepts of money ok dos many things will come back to you shortly im sure if youre just joining us here on aljazeera weve interrupted our normal programming to bring you this breaking news coming to us out of the iraqi capital baghdad weve been hearing there from tulsa jabari our correspondent in the iranian capital tehran the iranian Major General hassam so the money the head of the elite could force and Iraqi Militia commander up to 100 have both been killed according to reports which we are believing coming to us from multiple sources iraqi state t. V. And the Reuters News Agency we are not explicitly linking the reports of 2 u. S. Airstrikes in that area to the deaths of these 2 men but the Reuters News Agency is also quoting u. S. Officials one assumes the pentagon as saying that there have been u. S. Strikes in baghdad there is another unconfirmed report blaming the americans and the israelis that is an unconfirmed report we at aljazeera are not confirming that in any shape or form will stay with these latest pictures talk to a some a binge of 8 of our correspondents so osama youve got high value targets on a plane flying into baghdad somebody must have leaked some intelligence and theyll be a lot of questions being asked or various people at the airport and people who work for the Iraqi Government. Absolutely peter this is the kind of who want it to be ip movement as the which the shabby the popular vote the late edition portis call it its a very closed leak kept secret only a few people at the top know about. This precious cargo is it because it is protected for as long as possible and dont be in the country is anyone think about that and to them and that has really paid 3 years now weve been watching is there are syria in lebanon or. Cost into the mind he would appear. To be able to carry on his damages the sooner he did so to speak hes one of the very shadowy commanders who have this knowledge it is life image which is being created d for him but bearing in mind it was always been a very secure operation that all of these images would be released. In a safe position you said that somebody knew something and this is this would be. Sort of a Security Breach on the part of the middle new in iraq but also this could be an intelligence operation by the u. S. Forces or deploying multiple to. What these people who are on the. Money. Is somebody who has been a thorn in the side of forces in iraq and never been on he is somebody who has been able to galvanize support on the grass. Not just here but i suspect hes seen somebody who was instrumental in the fight against. Many people. Just a month ago we would see resurrection of the bashar Assad Government if there was one person who they could attribute that to be on the ground would be caught in silliman who was designing many operations of brigades on the ground and exactly is the case in iraq because i think you go towards the border towards the kurdish regions and the outskirts of go on to the curb a lot of the outskirts of baghdad at the height of the violence is in the area. Forces the. Net and in some places handpicked by us and for the money to fight. And again. You need to be and 101 of your schools confidant of insulin money who. Theyve been under his wing and was very close. To him and work with him to carry out all of these Operations Committee and wonder was somebody who you heard just a few more less than 48 hours ago saying that they would take the fight to the United States he was visible in many many of these tests so it is if these 2 leaders were very very instrumental. Figures in the hierarchy of. In fact forces of the ideological fight in iraq and the wider region and it is going to blow back. In across the region if we can see that because of the kind of threats that weve been hearing from the Popular Mobilisation forces here that there are and it affiliates in syria and elsewhere youve heard of the vado and youve heard major claims that they will take the fight to the u. S. And the u. S. Forces are within their reach and that is something that many analysts have been hearing that could be the case in case. There is a major escalation of the damage to be seen how this one is going to play out but again because of. The kind of. The this is going to have got a question not just in iraq or iran but across the middle east ok osama for the moment thank you very much live now to washington correspondent following that end of this developing story Gabriel Elizondo gave a sketchy picture at the top line seems to be that the u. S. Has been involved it would appear according to these multiple reports in taking out 2 high value targets. Yes peter and in times like this its important to reveal to our viewers who is talking and what we know but its just as important to be honest about what we dont know yet lets just be clear that weve reached out to the pentagon weve reached out to as many sources as we can at the pentagon and as of now nobody from the pentagon is confirming with us absolutely anything absolute radio silence out of the pentagon right now read into that whatever you want if we get something from the pentagon the minute we get it were going to share it here also nothing from the white house or from the secretary of state mike pompei oh washington in the last hour or so all the official channels anyway are absolutely silent so again read into that what you wish now reuters as you briefly mentioned is reporting that this according again to reuters that the u. S. Carried out and im reading directly here 2 strikes against im sorry the u. S. Carried out strikes against 2 targets linked to iran in baghdad that according to reuters from u. S. Officials unnamed again Nothing Official there. So this is where were at in washington right now absolutely nothing but clearly this is. Being talked about here quite a bit various circles this is huge as weve been reporting here and it should be noted that the revolutionary guard and the kurds force them on lead or leads in iran was designated as a terrorist group by the United StatesGovernment Force and sue them on or enemy number one without a doubt when it comes to iran thats how the u. S. Government views it so from that sense that the government has now made no secret to the u. S. Government no secret about what they think of suing them on and that he has a tear. So in the view of the u. S. Government so. In that sense it would potentially be logical that it would be that he would be targeted. But again no confirmation at all from any official sources in washington gabriel for the moment thank you very much lets talk now to Lawrence Cole peacefully u. S. Assistant secretary of defense he joins us on skype from washington Lawrence Korb welcome back good to talk to you as your reaction to this news. Well theres no doubt of my mind that the u. S. Has wanted to do this for wow and the fact that they did as ignited him a terrorist means legally they can they can deal with him and what has happened. In iraq over the last week this basically will get the United States back on reoffense or i dont think they wanted to attack any places where a lot of civilians could be killed because that could turn more of the population against them as we saw in the demonstrations over the weekend where they ended up killing you know some 25 rockys and wounding another of another 50 and so i think this is a the fact of the matter is that asleep white in sort of sounds very good sources and i think if it wasnt true the pentagon would not let them run with this story why theyre being silent on it i think at some point the president you may remember you know fact that he was the one who the oath to reveal that so its going to be done by anybody i think its going to be done by the by the white house the most the president has been criticized for not reacting to the shooting down of the wall and all of the attacks on Saudi Oil Fields is this the dynamic lawrence cold that we should be talking about here the way that this is partly about if the u. S. Has wanted to do this for some time why do it now. Well i think the reason i do it now given the events that have happened because basically before we had the 11 attacks on american bases and then the u. S. Retaliation the people in iraq were protesting about irans influence in the country after the events when we when we launched the attack without the permission of anyone in the u. S. In the Iraqi Government the population seemed to turn against the u. S. And. Im torn on target so what iran the fact that theyve done this i think will send a signal that you know the iraqi forces are not independent they were under the control of the qods force and so well mani and by getting attacking him not you didnt have many civilian casualties but it sends a message that we know that the iranians have an influence on the socalled Popular Mobilization horses also theyve managed it would appear according to these reports to target successfully iraqs shabby militia saying the groups deputy leader hyundai is was also killed for them do you think that was a bold luck or was it part of the plan well i think basically they were have to sell more money and the fact that someone else was with them made it more likely that they would go away or go after because basically youve got to have that you know the key leaders are of this whole Opposition Force in iraq and as your other commentators have said i mean these people you know solomonic is not a big influence on whats happening in lebanon and in and in syria and probably yemen. What if all this is is it opens up a jeannies bottle of anger the kind of anger that weve seen displayed on the streets of baghdad and completely shakes up the mosaic of the relationship between tehran iran and iraq but not in a good way well it certainly could but it really went downhill i dont know what the weekend when we killed the iraqis now this is an iranian its not an iraqi and well as we know from the demonstrations that have occurred over the last couple of months against the human and against the government. Of iraq that in fact many people in iraq are on happy with irans role and so lamont he is a symbol of you know the big role that iran has had in not in iraq even forcing the government to step aside we only have a caretaker Prime Minister right now. Radio silence on this developing story lawrence from the powers that be in washington and also from the white house when they do break cover do you think not when were listening to the explanation of what they did or why they did it will they in the 3rd traunch of talking about it perhaps get into a conversation where they try to conflate iranian militia with the people that run iran with iran with the 2050 nuclear deal so the trumpet ministration can kind of try to kind of build up some sort of explanation slash justification for doing it viz of the this is iran and weve got to deal with them. You know theres no doubt about the fact that the fact that they designated become a terrorist group ahead of time which is very unusual for an armed force of a particular country to be designated as a terrorist group i think what they will say is you know this demonstrates that were how bad iran and so we were good to get out of the deal because they havent modify their behavior and in fact they were on their way to iraq possibly to take action against the American Embassy there or the american troops we have Something Like 5200 troops there ok Lawrence Korb thank you so much for joining us here with this developing story on al jazeera lets go back to some a binge of aid and if youre just joining us here on aljazeera osama can we just pause for a 2nd just to do a new readers begin here kind of thing if you dont mind what do we know has happened here and i guess also what do we not know has happened. Absolutely pete this of our view of joining us now wouldnt be aware of the life of 5 i was there weve been getting dramatic developments out of every half hour after the initial reports of a rocket attack on Baghdad Airport then came the confirmation that it was vehicles which are carrying Popular Mobilization forces the militias in iraq who were spearheading the protest against the u. S. Embassy and some valuable targets and in the last few minutes you heard from rocky state t. V. Confirming that it was carrying possums today many of the leaders are all still to force has been met me and behind this 2nd in command of the Popular Mobilization forces here in iraq so far no confirmation no other common from the Iraqi Government as when i give you a source of this come on this but according to both of the Mobilization Forces this was a targeted assassination which was carried out by the u. S. Or israel again we have to attribute it to them because this is something that we have not had confirmation from these 2 sources do you have reached out to the u. S. Government but so far theyre not commenting and im glad you said that this is something good in the pot have been to the god to a point where the commander in chief of the u. S. Forces comes out and makes that statement be seen that in the case of a few months ago right. But this was a high profile target this was on the u. S. For a while both of these gentlemen have had an influence in iraq and beyond iraq in. Galvanizing troops in in making sure that on the grassroots the shia fighters who are fighting not just promoting what iran wants its influence to be in the region since in the money in particular having a following not just in iran he was bathed ready for. Figure in iran but also across the region in lebanon in yemen in iraq in syria he was somebody thats going to look up to he was somebody led by by design had built a reputation that he would go into battle has been in it for them and that is something which which to see which was very evident from wherever he went and evidence from the way the iranian government as well as the persona by the courts force was built around him so it is going to be a major blow to these forces who looked up to him as a command as a source who would who would give them guidance on how to fight battles and how to bring them but again this these are forces whove been prepared and have been fighting various fronts we heard from some Popular Mobilization fighters today that they have been fighting in lebanon they have been fighting in syria and they will continue to fight in iraq as well so im quite sure that there is a leadership Succession Plan in place for these leaders but it is going to be big shoes to fill for whoever takes their position we havent really osama spoken about the other person whos lost a life lost their lives here who mock the more hondas who was he and how closely aligned was his militia with the could tape hezbollah militia as run by explicitly run by say wrong. But i think maybe in the head this is the 2nd income on and off iraqs hush that xabi are Popular Mobilization going to the shia the alignment of shia militias who came together in the fight against them once a decree was issued in 24 teams weve been instrumental in the fight against isis and not so long ago was the commander of. A group which shares the name but is very different from hezbollah in lebanon but again shared the same ideology with hezbollah in lebanon so he was an instrumental figure in iraq he was very close to haas and so the money cost and the money almost used him as as his vice lead in iraq and they would seem very much to get very very he went in their arms and we saw his role especially when there were very difficult areas a fight with isis whether it came to a new job or to creep beiji almost we saw how cost and sending money would come in how possums in a minute would we would move and he would be followed into a man a man 317100 also was very important because he had supports off the legions of many of these militias who had their own individual aims as well as weve seen in the political process in iraq today many many people who are part of the Popular Mobilization forces have formed political alliances so i may be him on this because one of the figures would gather them together and would be would be would be the person that people would go to and he would hold their differences so to speak so he is a very important figure in the house that involved in the Mobilization Forces and for our viewers who are joining us now from the Mobilization Forces that is the units of these militias ideologically aligned with iran who came into being essential. In the fight against i think they had operated as a as lose forces fighting and the various commanded before them and as before but i soon gave them a single enemy and thats their would be joining the fight and they joined together and this is a group which was in the last 48 hours has been heard a lot about because it was the Popular Mobilization forces which spearheaded the protest against the u. S. Forces there very different from the protesters whove been protesting. In baghdad for 4 months now they were not opposed by the iraqi Security Forces they were actually given free passage to to move toward the u. S. Embassy as opposed to what weve seen in previous months that the way that the force and then with other protesters and it did it gave us a glimpse of the power structure in iraq of going in who controlled the shots who was cmon who can who can actually move in at will and essentially take power of this it take control of the situation and this is something that was the sentiment i was earlier at the protest site as they moved from the u. S. Embassy toured the right bank of the tigris river and this was the sense that i got there was a lot of empty u. S. Sentiment bubbling that and this was obviously is going to be surprising shocking and the thing is art according to some on the so ive spoken to in the last few hours this could turn deadly were violent in not just iraq but in the region as well and just very briefly osama because you were talking to us you will know what we now know the Popular Mobilization forces on now confirming that both these individuals have been deeds being killed so would it be fair to say with that confirmation weve got a situation that was tinder dry and combustible anyway and were heading into uncharted territory. I think thats a thats a very apt description peter because as youve been watching the events have been them folding in the vibrant middle east in iraq in particular in the last few months it is a lot of resentment there is rampant corruption does lack of governance there is a knack of opportunity move no jobs the Education System and does not seem to be looking for the young people in this country and thats why i did took to the streets and forced the government to resign you have to bear in mind that right now iraq is governed by an interim government a government which cannot even pos its own budget it is uncharted territory it is a pick callous political situation which is being exacerbated by the security situation that erodes after the attacks on the u. S. Embassy awfully good ideas beloved attacked by u. S. Forces on the border with syria and now as these 2 leaders leaders who thousands and thousands of fighters the looked up to have been assassinated essentially according to the rocky state media and now but the Mobilization Forces then it is going to be a very difficult to gauge reaction because your guess is as good as mine but these fighters weve been interacting with them being there one of the commanders the met today called the u. S. Embassy the head of this think the said when we wait for the Iraqi Government but really ready to take the fight to them so that if that under the surface that is the kind of violent sentiment that is there it is well have to just wait and see in the next coming hours and days on how with the express of the tells us on a thanks very much lets go back to washington and our correspondent there gabriel and hes on the were all getting a little bit of a the beginnings of a drip drip of information from washington what do we know. 1st what we dont know the pentagon is radio silence weve reached out to them multiple times theyre actually not confirming or denying anything at this point weve heard nothing from the state department and nothing from the white house as well a President Trump is still in mara lago and his resort in florida on vacation absolutely 0 again out of the White House State Department or pentagon from any official channels however in the last couple minutes weve just heard via twitter from the 1st u. S. Elected official i believe that has commented on this its senator chris murphy from the state of connecticut hes important because hes on the Senate ForeignRelations Committee im going to read you exactly what he just tweeted again this is a u. S. Senator on the Foreign RelationsCommittee Chris murphy he tweeted solo money was an enemy of the United States that is not a question the question is this as reports suggest did america just assassinate without any congressional authorization the 2nd most powerful person in iran knowingly setting off a potential massive global regional war question mark let me repeat that because i the ending he said knowingly setting off a potential massive regional war was ended that tweet so there you heard from a very powerful u. S. Senator. Not necessarily confirming the report that sort of money is killed but basically already starting to set up what are going to be the questions here in washington did the United States assassinate these people or not without any congressional authorization this is all very complicated this is going to be talked about in the coming hours and days for sure but were starting to get some reaction from very powerful senators here in the United States just to put this in perspective if youre asking yourself is it unusual not to be hearing from any of the official sources in washington in a situation. Like this the question is the answer to that is not necessarily and we look back at the killing of Osama Bin Laden in pakistan that was. Announced by then president barack obama on National Television that was also kept very quiet and very secretive until it was announced by the president. This rises to the level i believe if true that it would be probably an announcement from the president of the United States which would be donald trump so i think thats probably why youre seeing nobody in the official washington commenting because if this is true it probably is going to be an official announcement from the president of the United States it rises to that level here in washington and in the United States if so the money in particular was killed now if if you compare this to the killing of Osama Bin Laden. There are some similarities but there are some differences and in many ways if so money was killed by the u. S. It could be considered even more important than the killing of Osama Bin Laden perhaps at the time oh son im a bin laden was killed by American Special forces bin laden was a figurehead and not really an operational commander of al qaeda that is not the case with through the money hes very much as our commentators have been saying an operational leader ok gave the moment thanks very much. Youre watching aljazeera coming to you live from our headquarters here in doha if youre just joining us were interrupting a normal shuttle of news to get you across the very latest developments on that big breaking story coming to us out of the iraqi capital baghdad the iranian capital tehran and of course washington as well the gentleman you are looking at was a very very well connected commander in the Iranian Regime according to multiple reports he has in the last 4 and a half 5 hours lost his life along with an Iraqi Militia commander as well they were both