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General Stanley McChrystal and Qassem Suleimani.

The Shadow Commander

Qassem Suleimani is the Iranian operative who has been reshaping the Middle East. Now he’s directing Assad’s war in Syria.

By Dexter Filkins

September 23, 2013

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander

General Stanley McChrystal, who at the time was the head of the Joint Special Operations Command.

A month later, McChrystal received reports that General Mohammed Ali Jafari, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, might be in a convoy heading toward the Iraqi border. According to other intelligence sources, Suleimani was riding with him. A group of Kurdish fighters were waiting to welcome them when they crossed over. McChrystal decided to allow the Iranians to cross the border. “We didn’t want to get into a gunfight with the Kurds,” he said.

Mattis told me. “We’ve never dealt him a body blow.”

“Suleimani was lucky,” Dagan, the former Mossad chief, told me, referring to the raid. “It’s important to be lucky.”

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>A group of Kurdish fighters were waiting to welcome them when they crossed over. McChrystal decided to allow the Iranians to cross the border. “We didn’t want to get into a gunfight with the Kurds,” he said.

Free passage for enemy #1?

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> “Suleimani was lucky,” Dagan, the former Mossad chief, told me, referring to the raid. “It’s important to be lucky.”

Lucky or tipped off? Funny thing is once General Stanley McChrystal was moved out of the battlefield PDJT and his new commanders took down enemy #1 like a lightning strike.

Explain that Stanley? And why you are so Anti-Trump.You should thank him. He did the job you were given and failed.