US Airstrike Failed to Kill an Iranian General in Yemen Last Week

By Jason Ditz

On January 2, the US launched an airstrike at Baghdad International Airport, killing Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, and multiple Iraqis. It turns out, that was not the only US assassination bid that day.

US officials are now reporting that they also took a shot at Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Abdul Reza Shahlai, who was in Yemen at the time. They failed to kill him.

Night Operation in #Sanaa #Yemen led to the killing of a senior IRGC member, Abdul Reza Shahla’i, the head of the financial networks of the organization in #Yemen. Shahla’i was wanted by the #US that put a bounty of $15M on his head. pic.twitter.com/3hKappnn8y

— Amir Tsarfati (@BeholdIsrael) January 3, 2020

Officials are declining to offer specifics, but the Treasury Department accused him of “a long history of targeting Americans and US allies globally.” Officials are also not talking about what specifically the justification for the attack was.

The Trump Administration has struggled to justify the killing of Soleimani, and has offered no public evidence of allegations of an “imminent” attack. Shahlai would need to be involved in a whole other plot in Yemen, starting a whole new call for evidence on that too.

That the US kept the failed assassination under wraps for more than a week is raising questions on whether the US carried out any more attacks, or was planning to kill even more Iranian leaders at the time.

By Jason Ditz / Republished with permission / ANTIWAR.COM / Report a typo

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