CIA chief 'behind Soleimani's assassination' killed in downed plane in Afghanistan

(assuming this report is true)

that allowed this plane to be downed. It is not like he can't help bragging.

likes to shoot his mouth off e dry chance he gets. Loved to impress people with the crap he knows about.

With all your "friends I've never met before" surrounding you with their phones set to record.

More news on this coming, I'm sure.

Look what trump has got us into.

trump has started a shit show. there was no reason for him to take out Soleimani.

Ghazni is in the Persian language area of Afghanistan. One wonders ....

Engine. Hmmmm.

Putin's tactics done on behalf of Putin's Trump team.

from being the first to enter my mind. I was suspicious when I read about it last night.

And none of this is in the headlines that I'm seeing.

maybe Russia shot it down? The guy knew too much.

chilling at that

How often do CIA station chiefs die like this?

If it was shot down and he was targeted, then that must be pretty unnerving to people in certain job roles.


How well known was his involvement and how much of the assassination was seen as his thing? If he was the primary name attached to it, is it possible this all some sort of subterfuge to protect him? Too hollywood-thinking? Probably. Never mind.

Interesting coincidences keep piling up to the benefit of Putin's Eurasian Project. We need to slot them away for future reference.

Knocking off witnesses and co-conspirators. They, "earnt" it (what the hell is that?)

I've seen "learned" written as "learnt" in some documents written by people from the UK.

the plane is a communications relay plane - the system it carries is called Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN). They are a common sight in Afghanstan.

It would not be flying a CIA station head around. It is not a transport plane. Plus the CIA has a fleet of jets of their own.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Airborne_Communications_Node



https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/31969/highly-specialized-air-force-e-11a-communications-aircraft-crashes-and-burns-in-afghanistan

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/27/afghanistan-taliban-claim-they-shot-down-us-air-force-plane-crash

Iran Front Page - https://ifpnews.com/murderer-of-soleimani-killed-in-us-plane-downing-in-afghanistan-sources

did not verify this.
if it's true, it is alarming.

Interesting though, it was first mentioned on Reddit 20 hours ago:

Unconfirmed reports that the CIA head of anti-Iran operations, Michael D'Andrea aka Ayatollah Mike, was on board the plane that crashed near Ghazni, Afghanistan this morning. D'Andrea also masterminded the murder of Imad Mughniyeh, former Hezbollah Chief of Staff, back in 2008. (twitter.com)
submitted 20 hours ago by samanwilson

https://www.reddit.com/r/iranian/comments/eutsw6/unconfirmed_reports_that_the_cia_head_of_antiiran/


So if true, our gov't must have known about it for a while. The rumor - if it is a false - could have been dispelled hours ago.

I agree. It is alarming.

mainstream media stays focused on it. At some point someone is going to wonder where Mr. D'Andrea is if he isn't showing up for his appointments.

But no cause of death as of yet.

... D'Andrea? Or did Russia clue Iran in on D'Andrea's where about for some payback?

IMO Iran surrogates behind this. Just the beginning of Iranian payback. Buckle up.

Hoping we see more sourcing on this. Troubling if true.

earnt ?

Not a big strike in retribution for Soleimani, but years of little revenges.

All it takes is an Iranian operative to provide the right capability, information, and hardware.

This is a pretty big L for the US if true.

Never heard of D’Andrea before.

If he really was on the plane, it is interesting Russia had the info first.

Or it could have been that the guy IS a CIA station s Chief, killed elsewhere, and the CIA is using the plane dead has a cover story. Which would have the Russians in on it.

Fascinating.

I wonder...All these years avoiding injury, but now, right after the "kill", he is suddenly downed...

We are now living with a govt that we think is capable of such an assassination.

Wouldn't be the first time he's compromised our own people just bragging about things to Russians and other evil buddies.

Link to tweet

The dude not the actor?

No word on that yet, I guess.

Jesus had that one right.

From the modern language Living Bible.

https://time.com/5775758/military-crash-cia-disinformation/

The wreckage of a U.S. military plane that crashed and burned in a snowy mountainous region in Afghanistan on Monday was still fresh when Iranian state TV ran a story claiming a top CIA officer was among the dead. Like all good propaganda, the story was mostly false, but with a scintilla of truth. Two American service members had been killed when the U.S. Air Force jet slammed into the snowy ground, but U.S. officials insist there was no CIA onboard.

The U.S. military says it could not have gotten the news out sooner. But the Iranian version of events that circulated in the information vacuum had people inside and outside the U.S. wondering who to believe. The Trump Administration’s now-familiar pattern of slow, incomplete and sometimes disingenuous responses to events has ground down public and internal trust of its messaging and created an opportunity for adversaries like Iran and Russia to spread disinformation and sow confusion among allies and U.S. officials. The wrong information can spread about an event whether it happened on a remote Afghan mountainside or a maximum-security American compound. “If false reports are not authoritatively or convincingly disproven, they can take on a life of their own,” James Cunningham, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan told TIME. “Once that happens, it’s very hard to undo that.”

Critics and some U.S. officials say the growing dearth of trust in America’s word is symptomatic of an Administration led by a President who calls journalists “the enemy of the people”, frequently labels factual or unflattering news coverage as “fake news”, and has himself made more than 12,000 false or misleading statements during his tenure, according to a count by The Washington Post. A trust gap has formed between journalists and Administration spokespeople who often see challenging questions as political attacks, and treat offending outlets with disdain.

Overall, there are fewer on-record press briefings in the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House and other agencies in this Administration, says a former senior Trump Administration official. He says that’s due in part to the top-down nature of the Administration and in part to subordinates’ efforts to protect the President. There is an internal battle afoot with some senior Administration officials arguing for more public briefings, and while the White House Press Secretary hasn’t briefed from the podium since March 2019, the Pentagon and State Department have resumed holding more frequent press conferences to win back that global public trust. But it’s an uphill battle against the megaphone of the Twitter presidency —and the active disinformation campaigns being waged overseas against the U.S. “No one believes us anymore,” one frustrated senior U.S. official said.