Page 4 - aruba-today-20200111

A4 U.S. NEWS
Saturday 11 January 2020
U.S. tried to take out another

Iranian leader, but failed

WASHINGTON (AP) — The lists, which indicates a de- that house American and
U.S. military tried, but failed, liberate effort by the U.S. coalition forces. No one
to take out another se- to cripple the leadership was killed in that retaliation.
nior Iranian commander of Iran's Quds force, which The State Department has
on the same day that an has been designated a ter- offered a reward of $15 mil-
American airstrike killed the ror organization by the U.S. lion for information leading
President Donald Trump arrives to address the nation from the Revolutionary Guard's top A U.S. drone strike on Jan. to the disruption of IRGC fi-
White House on the ballistic missile strike that Iran launched general, U.S. officials said 3 killed Soleimani shortly af- nances, including Shahlai,
against Iraqi air bases housing U.S. troops, Wednesday, Jan. 8,
2020, in Washington, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Friday. ter he landed at Baghdad a key financier in the orga-
Gen. Mark Milley, center, and U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. The officials said a military International Airport. Trump nization. The State Depart-
David L. Goldfein. airstrike targeted Abdul administration officials ment said he "has a long
Associated Press Reza Shahlai, a high-rank- have justified the killing as history of targeting Ameri-
ing commander in Iran's an act of self-defense, say- cans and U.S. allies glob-
Islamic Republican Guard ing he was planning mili- ally," and planned multiple
Corps but the mission was tary acts that threatened assassinations of coalition
not successful. The officials large numbers of American forces in Iraq. It said that his
spoke on condition of ano- military and diplomatic of- activities included provid-
nymity in order to discuss a ficials in the Middle East. ing weapons and explo-
classified mission. Iran, however, called the sives to Shia militia groups
Officials said both Iranian attack an act of terrorism, and directing a plot to as-
Gen. Qassem Soleimani and on Jan. 8 it launched sassinate the Saudi ambas-
and Shahlai were on ap- more than a dozen ballistic sador in Washington, D.C.,
proved military targeting missiles at two bases in Iraq in 2011.q