Troops arrived yesterday quickly to support.
VIDEO: AH-64 Apaches protect @USEmbBaghdad. ?“We have taken appropriate force protection actions to ensure the safety of American citizens…and to ensure our right of self-defense. We are sending additional forces to support our personnel at the Embassy.”~@EsperDoD ???? pic.twitter.com/amABHBAOcL
— OIR Spokesman Col. Myles B. Caggins III (@OIRSpox) December 31, 2019
More than 100 U.S. Marines have arrived at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad to bolster security after Iranian-backed militiamen attempted to breach the compound (video: USMC) pic.twitter.com/pxo7RwPUdd
— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) December 31, 2019
Ospreys landing at the US Embassy in Iraq with Marine reinforcements?? pic.twitter.com/1p9QCx5ZYM
— Zero Blog Thirty (@ZeroBlog30) January 1, 2020
Reports out of Baghdad indicate that the Iran-backed “protestors” at the US embassy are now withdrawing, but only after US soldiers fired tear gas on some of them. | pic.twitter.com/OZzw79aPt6
— Mike (@Doranimated) January 1, 2020
The Kataib Hezbollah militia appear to have planned on camping there, they had about 50 tents and cookpots up. But U.S. forces disabused them of that idea.
No injuries and everyone’s safe, that’s what you get with a strong, immediate response.