{"id":8059,"date":"2015-09-11T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8059"},"modified":"2015-09-11T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T21:00:45","slug":"military-revises-count-says-500-americans-likely-killed-in-iraq-by-iranian-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/11\/military-revises-count-says-500-americans-likely-killed-in-iraq-by-iranian-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Military REVISES Count Says 500 Americans likely Killed in Iraq by &#8220;Iranian Activities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline\">\n<div class=\"d1-title-container\">\n<div class=\"d1-subhead-container\">\n<p class=\"d1-subhead\"><em><strong>I can tell you for a fact that our of ALL the IED deaths in Iraq (2,550) at least half or more were Iranian EFP&#8217;s; that is way more than 500 deaths folks, it is more like 1,200. Let&#8217;s tell the truth for once Was<\/strong><strong>hington. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"d1-subhead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/defense-large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8060\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/defense-large.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"defense-large\" width=\"620\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"d1-subhead\"><span class=\"outer\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"inner-inner\">CENTCOM says that 500 number Sen. Ted Cruz keeps using is accurate\u2014sort of.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>The <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> military has revised its accounting of the number of American troop deaths during the Iraq War it blames on Iran, complicating what had become a talking point for critics of President Barack Obama\u2019s nuclear deal with the regime in\u00a0Tehran.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/news\/2015\/09\/how-many-us-troops-were-killed-iranian-ieds-iraq\/120524\">revealed on Tuesday<\/a> that 196 American troops were killed during the Iraq War by Iranian explosively formed penetrators \u2014 a particularly deadly form of roadside bomb. That figure is lower than the 500 deaths that Republican lawmakers have said were casualties of the powerful weapon. A recently declassified <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> Central Command, or <span class=\"caps\">CENTCOM<\/span>, document obtained by <em>Defense One<\/em> revealed the 196 number and was the first comprehensive accounting of the number of casualties directly linked to the Iranian\u00a0IEDs.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <span class=\"caps\">CENTCOM<\/span> offered a new conclusion: the 500 number isn\u2019t wrong either, since more than 300 troops were killed by other types of \u201cIranian activities.\u201d The data pertaining to those deaths is classified, a <span class=\"caps\">CENTCOM<\/span>spokeswoman\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/threats\/2015\/09\/military-revises-count-says-500-americans-likely-killed-iraq-iranian-activities\/120770\/?oref=defenseone_today_nl\">Defense One<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can tell you for a fact that our of ALL the IED deaths in Iraq (2,550) at least half or more were Iranian EFP&#8217;s; that is way more than 500 deaths folks, it is more like 1,200. Let&#8217;s tell the truth for once Washington. -SF CENTCOM says that 500 number Sen. Ted Cruz keeps&#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":[1583,1704,74,1286,272,1911],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059"}],"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=8059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}