General Soleimani had helped US upstage Taliban in Afghanistan post-9/11
India TodayGeneral Qassem Soleimani had an envious resume for a clandestine operative. Deaths of Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the leader of Kataib Hezbollah - a constituent of the Popular Mobilisation Forces, comprising of 40 Shiite militia groups in Iraq - and the US's role behind the killings have been confirmed by both the US and Iran. Both came the US's way in late 2001 courtesy Qassem Soleimani, the head of Quds Forces. Creation of Quds Forces was a defining moment of the Iranian Islamic Revolution that began in 1979 and continued for few years before then supreme leader Ayatollah Kohmeini took complete control of Iran. In one of the meetings in early October 2001, Soleimani's negotiators "threw" a map at the US officials telling them "attack here first", "attack there then" and "attack here next".
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