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Iran is threatening to enact a USS Cole-type of attack on Ft. McNair.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/03\/21\/iran-threatens-uss-cole-style-attacks-on-fort-mcnair-and-a-top-general-sources-say\/<\/a><\/p>\n From the article: Iran threatens \u2018USS Cole-style attacks\u2019 on Fort McNair and a top general, sources say – <\/strong>James LaPorta, The Associated Press<\/a> — 1 day ago<\/p>\n Iran has made threats against Fort McNair, an Army post in the nation\u2019s capital, and against the Army\u2019s vice chief of staff, two senior U.S. intelligence officials said.<\/p>\n They said communications intercepted by the National Security Agency in January showed that Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard discussed mounting \u201cUSS Cole-style attacks\u201d against the base, referring to the October 2000 suicide attack <\/a>in which a small boat pulled up alongside the Navy destroyer in the Yemeni port of Aden and exploded, killing 17 sailors.<\/p>\n The intelligence also revealed threats to kill Gen. Joseph M. Martin <\/a>and plans to infiltrate and surveil the base, according to the officials, who were not authorized to publicly discuss national security matters and spoke on condition of anonymity. The post, one of the oldest in the country, is Martin\u2019s official residence.<\/p>\n The threats are one reason the Army has been pushing for more security around Fort McNair, which sits alongside Washington\u2019s bustling newly developed Waterfront District. – article<\/p>\n The article includes the allegation that this is revenge for the killing of the former Quds leader, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad in January 2020.<\/p>\n On a side note, the fencing around the Capitol has come down:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/21\/politics\/capitol-fencing-removed-insurrection\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n No coincidence, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Iran is threatening to enact a USS Cole-type of attack on Ft. McNair. https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/03\/21\/iran-threatens-uss-cole-style-attacks-on-fort-mcnair-and-a-top-general-sources-say\/ From the … And This Just In….<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,430,359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-2020-election","category-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111675,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111674\/revisions\/111675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}