Headline Roundup January 12, 2020
Follow-Up: Perspectives on Soleimani Strike
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New York Times (Opinion)
Last week, our military and intelligence services brought justice to Qassim Suleimani, Iranβs terror mastermind. President Trump ordered General Suleimaniβs killing after months of attacks on Americans by Iranβs proxy forces in Iraq. These attacks culminated in a rocket strike that killed an American and wounded others, then the attempted storming of our embassy in Baghdad. The first attack crossed the red line drawn by the president last summer β that if Iran harmed an American, it would face severe consequences. The president meant what he said, as Mr. Suleimani...

The Intercept
DONALD TRUMP HAS DRAGGED America into a moral abyss. And yet Congress, the press, and the public are unwilling to admit that we are now standing in blood. The nation is enabling a murderous demagogue, and we are all complicit.
The president of the United States has murdered a high-ranking official of a foreign government. The assassination last week of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani was a state-sponsored murder.

BBC News
The Islamic State (IS) group has welcomed the death of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, the head of the elite Quds Force.
In a statement, it described the general's demise as an act of divine intervention that benefitted jihadists. However, it made no mention at all of the US, which carried out the deadly drone strike against Soleimani in Baghdad on 3 January.
President Donald Trump's decision to assassinate Gen Soleimani set off a chain of consequences - one of the first was on the unfinished war against jihadists.
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