Now confirmed dead after a stampede during the funeral procession the u. S. Insisting that killing him was the right thing to do. Im called aspen welcome to the program we begin with breaking news iran has fired more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles at u. S. Military targets in iraq the missiles have reportedly hit 2 bases the sonde air base that is in western iraq and another near the city of erbil there are reports of iraqi casualties the full extent of the damage is still unclear irans revolutionary guard has confirmed that the attack was in retaliation for the u. S. Assassination of a top general qassam soli money on friday. On joint. Now in studio by iraqi journalist amir mousavi and in washington by our correspondent pablo thank you to you both for being here pablo i want to head to you 1st because the president has just tweeted moments ago walk us through what did the president say. Thats right carl we were almost expecting President Trump to tweet and in it he said all is well m
2018 and met with our troops there. The back up said quote well take all necessary measures to protect and defense u. S. Personnel, partners and allies in the region. The president has been briefed and hes monitoring the situation closely. We are just learning he may address the nation tonight. We may be hearing from President Trump about this attack tonight. Do not forget iran had promised historic revenge for the killing of general soleimani as someone who murdered as many as 00 americano as many as 600 amers on for the attacks on the u. S. Embassy in baghdad. Joining me former delta force member, retired Lieutenant General william borsma. General, i will start with you. What is yr sense of what the iranians have done . They promised a historic revenge. When you hear about 1 Ballistic Missiles when you hear about 12 Ballistic Missiles launched from iran targeting u. S. Bases, whats your response to that. If they are planning historic revenge there is more to come, there has to be. Th
After 7 years of complex research and inform us suddenly got in touch with our film team and said he wants to hand over certain documents secret documents kept under lock and key of germanys federal Intelligence Service the b. And d. The b. And d. Cause the shipping company to transport arms to crisis regions our informant knew this but he kept quiet and today those regions are war zones. We have arranged to meet at a remote location and our contact thought mailing the documents to us seemed to risky even now 10 years on. When given the shipping company stowage plans for on. Transports the documents also include photos of tanks in a ships hold tanks for a brutal military dictatorship supplied despite an embargo. We were also given the freighter papers of other ships and finally a computer stick and that is it. The stowage document shows how 80 tanks have to be positioned in order to get all of them on board. The shipping companys plan to deliver a consignment of tanks to islamic north
Iraq. The president went to al asad in 2018 and met with our troops there. The back up said quote well take all necessary measures to protect and defense u. S. Personnel, partners and allies in the region. The president has been briefed and hes monitoring the situation closely. We are just learning he may address the nation tonight. We may be hearing from President Trump about this attack tonight. Do not forget iran had promised historic revenge for the killing of general soleimani as someone who murdered as many as 00 americano as many as 600 amers on for the attacks on the u. S. Embassy in baghdad. Joining me former delta force member, retired Lieutenant General william borsma. General, i will start with you. What is your sense of what the iranians have done . They promised a historic revenge. When you hear about 1 Ballistic Missiles when you hear about 12 Ballistic Missiles launched from iran targeting u. S. Bases, whats your response to that. If they are planning historic revenge t
Soldiers are in iraq and invitation from the Iraqi Government so theyre posted at various Iraqi Military bases throughout the country. The missiles that were fired from iran appeared to be targeting u. S. Personnel these military bases. However it seems as of now that no u. S. Person i mean were not positive the situation still ongoing but the reports that were getting is now makes it seem like a new mistress now work it that the iraqi soldiers were also on those bases with the u. S. Soldiers seem to have suffered some losses were not sure how many. Now we dont know that these were Ballistic Missiles they were fired from iran what do we know about irans military capability how accurate are these sorts of missiles and how capable is the country of carrying out an effective strike something that could be precise and hit a far away target. I mean there it says you seem to 90 people of tearing out straits that are a targets but you know another thing that none of them got reported going ag