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Qassem Soleimani killed: Afghanistan says territory will not be used against any third country
Afghanistan, which shares a border with Iran, expressed its concern over the "possible escalation of violence in the region," and urged both the US and neighboring Iran to avoid an "escalation of violence" over the killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani.
IANS
Indo-Asian News Service
Kabul
January 4, 2020
UPDATED: January 4, 2020 13:16 IST
Tensions escalated between the US and Iran after the killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Iraq. (Photo: AP)
Amid a flare up in tensions between the United States and Iran over the killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in Iraq, Afghanistan - home to thousands of US troops - has said its soil will not be used against its neighbors.
The government of Kabul expressed concern over the escalation in violence in the region as a result of the US airstrike on Iraqi soil that killed one of Iran's top leaders, Efe news reported.
"The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan assures its people and all its neighboring countries that as per the Security Agreement with the United States, the Afghanistan soil under no circumstances will be used against any foreign country," the Afghan presidential palace said in a statement late on Friday.
The presidential palace said President Ashraf Ghani on Friday held a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in which the president said Afghan soil would not be used against any third country.
Afghanistan, which shares a border with Iran, expressed its concern over the "possible escalation of violence in the region," and urged both the US and neighboring Iran to avoid an "escalation of violence."
It also called on the parties to resolve their differences through dialog.
The note said the government is carefully following the developments in the region and is committed to the preservation and expansion of its relations with all countries.
Despite the presence of thousands of US troops in Afghanistan for nearly 18 years, Afghanistan has been experiencing normal relations with its neighboring countries, including Iran.
Soleimani, who was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force and the architect of several powerful Shia militias across the Middles East region, was killed in a US strike near Baghdad International Airport.
The governments of Islamabad and New Delhi also expressed their concern over the events in the Middle East and consequences they could have for the region.
The Pakistani government urged the parties to exercise maximum moderation and solve their problems through diplomatic channels.
India's Foreign Ministry acknowledged the death of the Iranian leader and said in a statement that peace, stability and security were of utmost importance to the country.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/qassem-soleimani-killed-afghanistan-says-territory-not-used-against-third-country-1633894-2020-01-04
Slain Iran Gen Qassem Soleimani behind terror plots even in Delhi, claims Donald Trump
While Trump did not specify the plots in India, he may have been referring to a 2012 bombing of the car of the wife of the Israeli defence attache to India.
India Today Web Desk
Los Angeles
January 4, 2020
UPDATED: January 4, 2020 13:45 IST
Donald Trump
Qassem Soleimani was killed on the orders of Donald Trump. (Reuters)
HIGHLIGHTS
Donald Trump said Qassem Soleimani was responsible for several terror plots in Delhi
Trump defended his order for a missile strike that killed Solaimani
He said victims of Soleimani's atrocities have been honoured
US President Donald Trump accused deceased Iranian General Qassem Soleimani of being responsible for orchestrating terror plots in New Delhi.
Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said, "Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion, contributing to terrorist plots as far away as New Delhi and London."
Trump defended his order for a missile strike that killed Solaimani and seven other top Iranian military personnel at Baghdad International Airport on Friday.
"Today we remember and honour the victims of Soleimani's many atrocities and we take comfort in knowing that his reign of terror is over," he said.
While Trump did not specify the plots in India, he may have been referring to a 2012 bombing of the car of the wife of the Israeli defence attache to India.
Tal Yehoshua Koren was injured and underwent surgery to remove shrapnel and her driver and two bystanders were also hurt in the attack on February 13, 2012, using a bomb that was attached to the vehicle with a magnet.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran was behind that attack and another attempted attack using similar technique in Georgia.
The New Delhi case not been resolved so far and a conclusive link to Iran has not been made by India.
News reports at that time said that the attack was carried out by Iran in retaliation for the killing of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan in Teheran using a bomb with a magnet attached to his car, allegedly by Israelis.
An Indian journalist, Syed Mohammad Ahmad Kazmi, was arrested on March 6 that year and accused of being a part of a conspiracy to carry out the attack and held under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
He was released on bail by the Supreme Court in October on the condition that he does not go abroad.A
According to news reports at that time, Delhi police alleged that he had carried out reconnaissance for the Iranians who carried out the attack.
The five persons who carried out the attacks were Iranian members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard who had visited Delhi, police were quoted as saying. They were not arrested although police identified them.
An Iranian major general, Soleimani was the leader of the Quds force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. But his name did not figure in the reports at that time on the Indian attack.
In his address on the killing of Soleimani in Iraq on Thursday, Trump said on Friday, "Soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act and terminated him."
He listed several alleged attacks directed by Soleimani and carried out by the Quds Force and allied militias.
"For years, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its ruthless Quds Force – under Soleimani's leadership – has targeted, injured, and murdered hundreds of American civilians and servicemen," Trump said.
He blamed Soleimani fro the recent attacks on US targets in Iraq, including rocket strikes that killed an American and injured four American servicemen, as well as the assault on the US embassy in Baghdad earlier this week.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/slain-iran-general-qassem-soleimani-responsible-for-terrorist-plots-in-delhi-claims-donald-trump-1633854-2020-01-04
Was the drone attack on Iranian General Soleimani an assassination?
A US executive order in place since 1976 forbids the US from carrying out political assassinations. It does not, however, define what constitutes an assassination, and has been generally interpreted to mean an unlawful killing of a political leader in peacetime.
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New York
January 4, 2020
UPDATED: January 4, 2020 11:41 IST
A US airstrike near Baghdad's airport on Friday killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force. (Photo: AP)
HIGHLIGHTS
An executive order forbids US from carrying out political assassinations
The US executive order does not however define what constitutes an assassination
International law expert says targeted killing of a high Iranian state and military official by surprise attack was "clearly assassination"
After Friday's targeted killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, newsrooms struggled with the question: Had the United States just carried out an assassination? And should news stories about the killing use that term?
The AP Stylebook, considered a news industry bible, defines assassination as "the murder of a politically important or prominent individual by surprise attack."
Although the United States and Iran have long been adversaries and engaged in a shadow war in the Middle East and elsewhere, the US has never declared formal war on Iran. So the targeted killing of a high Iranian state and military official by a surprise attack was "clearly an assassination," said Mary Ellen O'Çonnell, an expert in international law and the laws of war at the University of Notre Dame School of Law.
Just as clearly, the Trump administration doesn't agree.
Though a statement issued by the Pentagon said the attack was specifically intended to kill Soleimani and that it was ordered "at the direction of the President," it also characterized the killing as defensive, to protect US military forces abroad, and stated that Soleimani was actively developing plans "to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region." Subsequent statements by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump also characterized the killing as punishment of Soleimani for past blood on his hands.
O'Çonnell's counter argument: Whether the killing is framed as part of an armed conflict between two states or as a police action intended to deter terrorism, it cannot be characterized as an act of self-defense because there was never a full-fledged and direct attack on the United States by Iran. The United States's legal reason for being in Iraq is to deter the Islamic State group, not to fight against Iran, she noted, and the attacks against the US by Iranian-backed militias in recent months have been intermittent and relatively limited.
"Assassination is prohibited both in peacetime law as well as on the battlefield," she said.
"We have really moved to a nearly lawless state," she said. If the justification for a military response is self-defense, the response should be "necessary and proportionate. " But that would not justify individual targeted killings, she said.
For Iran, Soleimani's killing was a "horrific assassination," wrote Majid Takht Ravanchi, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations.It is "an obvious example of state terrorism, and, as a criminal act, constitutes a gross violation of the fundamental principles of international law," Ravanchi wrote in a letter to the UN secretary-general.
The premeditated killing of a specific individual commander for what they have done on the battlefield or what they may do has been prohibited by the law of armed conflict dating from the Hague Conventions of 1907, and by a protocol of the Geneva Convention in 1949 saying ""it is prohibited to kill, injure or capture an adversary by perfidy," she added.
International war law aside, there also has been a US executive order in place since 1976 forbidding the US from carrying out political assassinations. The order came into being after revelations that the CIA had organized or sanctioned assassination attempts against foreign leaders including Fidel Castro.
The current version of the executive order states: "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination."
It does not however define what constitutes an assassination, and has been generally interpreted to mean an unlawful killing of a political leader in peacetime. For instance, during the "war on terror" since 9/11, the United States is believed to have conducted a number of secret drone strikes targeting individuals, such as the attack against al- Qaida propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in 2011 in Yemen.
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https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/iran-general-qassem-soleimani-killing-or-assassination-us-baghdad-airstrike-1633852-2020-01-04
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wayback machine?
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the wavy lines show it radiating
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They just missed Trump Tower.
takes a lot of fuel to go from a equatorial orbit to a somewhat polar orbit, and no debris is doing that
Lot's of variables.
Do we assume he owned just one ring?
Do we assume he only owned two rings?
Do we assume he never has a third or fourth ring?
Did he wear rings on both hands?
Did he always wear the same ring on either hand exclusively?
I doubt you'll get anywhere.
I can't do their deduction for them.
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watching the movie Midway
you can sure see where Star Wars ripped off a lot of dialog from this movie during the dogfight scenes