An Iranian tourist was killed by an American airstrike at Baghdad International Airport Thursday night.
– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
Iranian tourist killed by American air strike in Baghdad.
From Quincy Quarry News’ media brethren at Duffle Blog comes coverage of the death of an Iranian tourist at Baghdad International Airport.
The deceased, Qassim Suleimani, a middle-aged Iranian bureaucrat, was on his way to Jerusalem via Baghdad and Damascus, according to his friend Mohsen Chizari.
“Qassim was a renowned figure in his community, a good family man,” Mohsen told reporters at a press conference in Baghdad. “He had just come to visit his friend Abu, who lives here in Baghdad. They have been doing import-export work together for many years. Mostly guns, but also sometimes chemical weapons and the occasional explosively-formed penetrator …”
JUST IN: Suleimani bag still on carousel 9 at Baghdad International Airport pic.twitter.com/Em1jYqRrFq
— Duffel Blog (@DuffelBlog) January 3, 2020
Multiple days of morning and funeral services are planned in Tehran with what is left in the way of remains eventually interred.
Based on what's left from the seven of us in that car, I think we're a pretty solid contender if they ever make a Two and a Half Men remake
— Qasem Soleimani, Obvious Parody (@Qasam_Soleimani) January 6, 2020
Source: Iranian tourist killed by American strike in Baghdad
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