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“The Americans begged us to only stop firing Ashtar rockets at their bases.” Jaafar al-Husseini, the military spokesman for the Iraqi Shia militia Kata’ib Hizballah, was talking about attacking U.S. forces in Iraq before they left the country in 2011. While uttering these remarks in a February 2018 TV interview, he , as if to seem more assertive. Since then he has threatened U.S. forces on numerous occasions. The , though with much less lethal weapons than the . The attacks, however, have been assessed by the United States to be dangerous enough that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo if the...…“The Americans begged us to only stop firing Ashtar rockets at their bases.” Jaafar al-Husseini, the military spokesman for the Iraqi Shia militia Kata’ib Hizballah, was talking about attacking U.S. forces in Iraq before they left the country in 2011. While uttering these remarks in a February 2018 TV interview, he , as if to seem more assertive. Since then he has threatened U.S. forces on numerous occasions. The , though with much less lethal weapons than the . The attacks, however, have been assessed by the United States to be dangerous enough that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo if the...WW…
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