In order to cope with the attack on the US military forces in the Middle East, the US military once again chose to act at night, and the Iranian armed commander was "beheaded".
As everyone knows, since the outbreak of the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Western countries led by the United States have chosen to side with Israel at the first time, and even when the Israeli army carried out "indiscriminate" bombing in the Gaza Strip, the United States still did not change its "original intention," and the United States and Western countries also tried in vain to force the countries in the Middle East that support Palestine to submit through military pressure, but the reality was not as good as the United States thought, and the military pressure exerted by the United States provoked fierce resistance from some armed forces in the Middle East. As a result, the US military in the Middle East has been frequently attacked. In response to this situation, the US military has also frequently fought back recently. This has also led to the Middle East falling into a melee mode.
Recently, the US military once again chose to start at night and launched an air strike on the Middle East armed groups that attacked the US military, and an Iraqi militia commander was killed. According to the Global Times. At 9:30 p.m. local time on February 7, units affiliated with the U.S. ** Command carried out an attack in Iraq, killing a commander of a militia group that was allegedly responsible for directly planning and participating in the attack on U.S. forces in the area. There is ** information that the backer behind the armed group is Iran.
It is understood that the ** used by the US military to "behead" the Iranian armed commander this time is likely to be a "blade hellfire". Also known as the Ninja Bomb, this is a modification of the Hellfire missile, but with 6 ejected sword-like blades instead of the traditional Sex warhead. Its blades are designed to kill one or more occupants of a vehicle without harming nearby people and property, minimizing collateral damage.
For this **, the US military has used it only a limited number of times, including in operations in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia. Earlier, when the US military assassinated Soleimani, the commander of Iran's "Quds Force" in Iraq, there were also reports that this type of missile was used. The U.S. military claimed that it was "very humane and would not hurt the innocent." However, the outside world has generally questioned this statement, and some military experts have bluntly said that this statement of the US military is a typical information warfare method of "telling the truth without telling it all."
Experts point out that this missile may be able to reduce collateral damage to people around the target, but this method is equivalent to "slashing" the target, and the target may not die immediately, but will slowly die in pain. Obviously, this has nothing to do with the word "humanitarian". Experts believe that the purpose of the US military's use of this "torture" type of strike is to have a psychological deterrent effect on the enemy.
It is worth mentioning that shortly before the US military "beheaded" the commander of the Iraqi militia, the US military also launched a large-scale air strike on targets in Iraq and Syria, which, according to the US side, lasted about 30 minutes and used more than 125 precision-guided munitions. The U.S. military attacked more than 85 targets, and several aircraft, including long-range bombers taking off from the continental United States, were involved in the airstrikes. The targets of the attacks included command and control centers, intelligence centers, missile and drone warehouses, and logistics and ammunition facilities of local armed groups.
Regarding the air strike, Biden bluntly said that it was revenge for the death of three US soldiers in Jordan who were killed in a drone attack. It is understood that on January 28, local time, a US military base in northeastern Jordan near the border with Syria was attacked by drones, killing 3 US soldiers and injuring more than 40 people. This is the first time that US troops in Jordan have been attacked since the outbreak of the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the first time that US soldiers have been killed in an attack in the Middle East.
With regard to the military operations launched by the US military in Iraq and Syria, it should be noted that the Security Council has never authorized the use of force by the United States against other countries. In other words, the US airstrikes are not legitimate. As for the current situation between Palestine and Israel, Chinese spokesman Wang Wenbin stressed that the top priority at the moment is to calm the fighting in Gaza as soon as possible and prevent the conflict from further expanding or even getting out of control.