{"id":7980,"date":"2015-09-09T07:40:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=7980"},"modified":"2015-09-09T07:40:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:40:40","slug":"how-many-us-troops-were-killed-by-iranian-ieds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/09\/how-many-us-troops-were-killed-by-iranian-ieds\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many US Troops Were Killed by Iranian IED&#8217;s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Yeah, Mr. Kerry and BHO, that was a really great move signing off on a deal that gave these Iranian POS Billions of dollars to continue their terrorist activities&#8230;.Never mind they were responsible for thousands of American deaths in Iraq. What do you call it when a Govt Official (The Secretary of State and President of the United States, No Less) that has took a sworn oath to defend Americans against all enemies foreign and domestic turns around and supports an enemy of the state so willingly?? Oh Yeah, I remember: YOU CALL THAT TREASON.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0I sincerely pray all the American lives you have dishonored by signing this treaty (including all of the Wounded Warriors who now suffer because of these IRANIAN EFP&#8217;s) and All the American Lives that WILL BE harmed in the future, HAUNT YOUR DREAMS for the rest of your days on earth. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/efp-detonations-05to11.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7982\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/efp-detonations-05to11.png\" alt=\"EFP-Detonations-05to11\" width=\"600\" height=\"622\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Explosively formed penetrators \u2014 a particularly deadly form <\/strong>of roadside bomb \u2014 killed 196 American soldiers in Iraq over a five-and-a-half-year period, according to recently declassified Pentagon\u00a0documents.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"d1-inline-subscribe-container newsletter\">\n<h3 class=\"d1-inline-subscribe-title\"><\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"d1-author-bio-container\">\n<div class=\"d1-author-bio with-image\">\n<p class=\"d1-author-bio-text\">That\u2019s about half as many deaths as lawmakers have attributed to the bombs, which <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> officials say were largely supplied by Iran\u2019s elite Quds\u00a0Force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The carnage wrought by EFPs returned to the news over the summer, as opponents of the nuclear deal with Iran cited Tehran\u2019s behind-the-scenes actions against <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> troops during Operation Iraqi Freedom as a reason to scuttle the agreement. Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican who is also running for president, and others in Congress have said that EFPs had killed more than 500\u00a0troops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency has a classified list of roughly 500 American soldiers who were murdered by Iranian IEDs,\u201d Cruz said at a July 29 Senate Armed Services Committee\u00a0hearing.<\/p>\n<p>But data from <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> Central Command, which runs <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> military operations in the Middle East, suggests the actual toll is far less. According to the first comprehensive accounting,\u00a0between November 2005 and December 2011, 1,526 EFPs killed a total of 196 <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> troops and injured\u00a0861.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/news\/2015\/09\/how-many-us-troops-were-killed-iranian-ieds-iraq\/120524\/?oref=defense_one_breaking_nl\">Defense One<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, Mr. Kerry and BHO, that was a really great move signing off on a deal that gave these Iranian POS Billions of dollars to continue their terrorist activities&#8230;.Never mind they were responsible for thousands of American deaths in Iraq. What do you call it when a Govt Official (The Secretary of State and President&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,1286,1911],"tags":[2127,2128,2129],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}