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Soleimani - another perspective:

  Arch Terrorist or Ally? Three Times Soleimani Saved American Lives
  https://sputniknews.com/world/202001061077960305-arch-terrorist-or-inadvertent-ally-three-times-soleimani-saved-american-lives/

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    Soleimani is 2015 fighting along American soldiers in Iraq to
    kill ISIS fighters.. now killed by Trump on all sorts of
    fabrications. Our foreign policy is psychotic
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    In late 2001, after a group of 19 Saudi, Emirati, Lebanese and
    Egyptian hijackers slammed commercial airliners into the World
    Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 Americans, US
    officials quietly met with Iranian diplomats coordinated by
    Soleimani in Geneva. Iran, a long-time enemy of al-Qaeda and its
    leader, Osama bin Laden, agreed to provide the United States with
    valuable intelligence on the terrorist group, including the
    locations of suspected al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan.
    Iran was also eager to assist the US in its campaign against the
    Taliban, since the radical fundamentalist movement was known for
    its harsh treatment of Afghanistan’s Shia minority, and had
    attacked and killed 11 Iranian diplomats at the consulate in
    Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998.

    In November 2001, Quds Force special forces and US Army Rangers
    and Delta Force units entered the city of Herat, northwestern
    Afghanistan, igniting an anti-terrorist insurrection led by
    Northern Alliance. The unprecedented operation led to the
    collapse of Taliban control of Herat, and soon the group was
    toppled from power across the rest of Afghanistan. The Quds Force
    was known to have provided material support to Ahmad Shah
    Massoud, leader of the US-allied Northern Alliance, going back to
    at least the mid-1990s. Iranian intelligence services continued
    to provide the US with intelligence until January 2002, when US
    President George W Bush added Iran to his ‘Axis of Evil’ list of
    possible regime change targets during his State of the Union
    address.

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    How did Soleimani’s efforts in the Syrian conflict save American
    lives? For one thing, they helped to tie down tens of thousands
    of radicals from Daesh (ISIS),* al-Qaeda, and a host of other
    terrorist groups which could have otherwise scattered to Western
    countries to conduct Paris or Brussels-style terror attacks.
    Furthermore, they allowed the US to limit its anti-Daesh
    operations in Syria to aerial support and limited on-the-ground
    assistance to Kurdish militias, meaning fewer US service members’
    lives put at risk.

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    Whether against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, or
    against Daesh and other terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, Gen.
    Soleimani and the Quds Force have consistently fought the same
    Sunni Islamist Wahhabi fundamentalist forces which have targeted
    US forces across the Middle East and around the world, and which
    have vowed to destroy the West and America through acts of
    terror.

        By approving Soleimani’s assassination, President Trump has
        not only dealt a blow to the forces fighting Daesh and
        al-Qaeda, but put an irreversible end to the informal, often
        begrudging, highly unlikely but hugely successful partnership
        between Iran and the US in the fight against terrorism, and
        that may put American lives at risk.