Donald Trump announced that the US embassy in Baghdad is safe after some 6, pro-Iran militia fighters stormed the compound on Tuesday, set walls ablaze and chanted 'Death to America! The president doubled down in his warning to Iran , saying their government will be held 'fully responsible' for the attack that forced the Pentagon to send Marines as reinforcements to the Iraqi embassy. Many of our great Warfighters, together with the most lethal military equipment in the world, was immediately rushed to the site.
This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year! In a third tweet he quipped 'The Anti-Bengahzi! The tweet, which had a spelling error, was deleted soon after. In the Tuesday attack militia members with the Popular Mobilization Forces PMF swarmed the high-security compound, breaking down the main door to the compound and setting a fire in the reception area, forcing US soldiers inside the embassy to fire tear gas, stun grenades and warning shots.
In the chaos 62 of the thousands of fighters were injured, according to PMF. Ambassador to Iraq Matthew Tueller was on leave at the time of the attack and embassy staff had already been evacuated before the US Marine guard became besieged behind the bullet-proof glass and on the rooftops. The attack on the embassy was is in retaliation for US air strikes on the Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah on Sunday night, which killed two dozen fighters.
Those strikes were in retaliation for last week's killing of an American contractor at a US base in Kirkuk. Several thousand protesters and militia fighters have broken down the gate of the US embassy in Baghdad, storming the compound as gunshots and sirens ring out, following Sunday's US air strikes on Hezbollah that killed He warned that Iran will be held 'fully responsible' adding, 'This is not a Warning, it is a Threat'.
A US Marine pictured preparing to deploy from Kuwait to Baghdad to respond to the crisis outside the embassy. Marines pictured inside military aircraft taking them from Kuwait to Baghdad to reinforce the US embassy. Militia fighters in military garb pictured setting fire to the US embassy wall and throwing rockets over the fencing.
