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Iran’s January 2020 Ballistic Missile Attack On Al-Asad Air Base

I've always considered Catherine Herridge to be quite reputable. But then again, so was Dan Rather before the George W Bush fake documents bruhaha....
 
Socom7 said:
I call utter BS.

(Yes, I did go through that woman's twitter feed. She's a lunatic.)
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Well she does actually display the journalistic curiosity of having on the record by name sources for the story.
As well as by name sources currently still serving.

I agree with teekay99. Herridge has a fairly sober and judicious reputation as a journalist.

Want to share exactly what it is in her twitter feed that classifies her as a lunatic. Other than she actually investigated questions about Russia gate, hunters laptop, the Jan 6th pipe bomber etc etc.
 
Publius said:
Well she does actually display the journalistic curiosity of having on the record by name sources for the story.
As well as by name sources currently still serving.

I agree with teekay99. Herridge has a fairly sober and judicious reputation as a journalist.

Want to share exactly what it is in her twitter feed that classifies her as a lunatic. Other than she actually investigated questions about Russia gate, hunters laptop, the Jan 6th pipe bomber etc etc.
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Sure. She bases her claim that Iran attacked al-Asad airbase with - and I quote - "numerous toxic agents, including radiation" (trust me, I do work with toxic and radioactive substances, and the very way she phrases it suggests she has no idea what she's talking about, since no self-respecting researcher would verbally confuse toxicity with a radiation hazard) - on the following two facts:
  1. US personnel have been issued with dosimeters at some unspecified time after the attack
  2. some US personnel have developed cancer in the six-year period following that attack
(1) is a complete non sequitur, while (2) is laughable given that cancer is the second most common cause of death among US citizens. It's like saying Iran attacked a US base with cars because some troops stationed there fell victim to car accidents in the period following the attack.

She also blames - and I again quote - "traumatic brain injuries" on the aforementioned "toxic fallout", which, again, tells me she doesn't even understand basic English (the word "traumatic" means "caused by trauma", i.e. a sudden and violent impact - as in: "someone hit you on the head, and now you have a brain injury").

It's 100% pure scaremongering crap. 🥱
 
Socom7 said:
Sure. She bases her claim that Iran attacked al-Asad airbase with - and I quote - "numerous toxic agents, including radiation" (trust me, I do work with toxic and radioactive substances, and the very way she phrases it suggests she has no idea what she's talking about, since no self-respecting researcher would verbally confuse toxicity with a radiation hazard) - on the following two facts:
  1. US personnel have been issued with dosimeters at some unspecified time after the attack
  2. some US personnel have developed cancer in the six-year period following that attack
(1) is a complete non sequitur, while (2) is laughable given that cancer is the second most common cause of death among US citizens. It's like saying Iran attacked a US base with cars because some troops stationed there fell victim to car accidents in the period following the attack.

She also blames - and I again quote - "traumatic brain injuries" on the aforementioned "toxic fallout", which, again, tells me she doesn't even understand basic English (the word "traumatic" means "caused by trauma", i.e. a sudden and violent impact - as in: "someone hit you on the head, and now you have a brain injury").

It's 100% pure scaremongering crap. 🥱
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All testified to by retired millitary officer.
So is their anything there, we’ll see.

But it’s light years ahead of 80% of journalism that runs completely anonymous sources.
So you don’t like her she has a track record. I haven’t a clue who you are
 
Publius said:
All testified to by retired millitary officer.
So is their anything there, we’ll see.

But it’s light years ahead of 80% of journalism that runs completely anonymous sources.
So you don’t like her she has a track record. I haven’t a clue who you are
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Or a retired Army Lt Colonel Judge Judge Advocate General on the record a legal council to 183 Plaintiffs.

Retired Army Judge Advocate General, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Broadbent is now representing 183 plaintiffs — who include the former soldiers and their families — in a sweeping court case. Broadbent recently retired after 23 years of military service representing the legal interests of the Army and its soldiers. He told me, ‘We’re going to have another Agent Orange situation,'” Herridge wrote in the report.

I don’t get? There is a story there, there legal claims made by retired military personnel. From a JAG officer to military physicians.

No one’s say this is a slam dunk case.
But we have retired military officers saying something happens.

And your response is to attack the reporter? Thats not rational thought,
 
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Huh. So the reason this was discovered was that
Publius said:
Or a retired Army Lt Colonel Judge Judge Advocate General on the record a legal council to 183 Plaintiffs.

Retired Army Judge Advocate General, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Broadbent is now representing 183 plaintiffs — who include the former soldiers and their families — in a sweeping court case. Broadbent recently retired after 23 years of military service representing the legal interests of the Army and its soldiers. He told me, ‘We’re going to have another Agent Orange situation,'” Herridge wrote in the report.

I don’t get? There is a story there, there legal claims made by retired military personnel. From a JAG officer to military physicians.

No one’s say this is a slam dunk case.
But we have retired military officers saying something happens.

And your response is to attack the reporter? Thats not rational thought,
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I wouldn't view it as a personal attack and more that the reporter doesn't have enough knowledge of these kinds of weapons and instead overblows the situation. Interesting that it's going to court though, if there's a way to find the legal documents it would be cool to see what the retired military officers argue. Then again Traumatic Brain Injury following an explosion can be quite hidden and manifest later than the actual explosion, so even someone that might have been regarded as unhurt by an explosion could have brain damage that appears with a delay.
 
Cilvilt_beredskap said:
Huh. So the reason this was discovered was that

I wouldn't view it as a personal attack and more that the reporter doesn't have enough knowledge of these kinds of weapons and instead overblows the situation. Interesting that it's going to court though, if there's a way to find the legal documents it would be cool to see what the retired military officers argue. Then again Traumatic Brain Injury following an explosion can be quite hidden and manifest later than the actual explosion, so even someone that might have been regarded as unhurt by an explosion could have brain damage that appears with a delay.
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I don’t disagree that there is still much we don’t know. I tried to find a link for any documentation with no luck. That isn’t completely unusual due to ongoing investigation and court case.
And of course it’s cloaked in national security.

The bombardment itself isn’t the story, nor is the TBI. Both of these are aspects of modern warfare.

The story is did Iran utilize chemical or nuclear materials in its missile attack.
This validity or importance of this question isn’t even dependent on did Iran properly designing the warheads and include sufficient quantities of a NBC agent. Sufficient that the warhead might achieve its design function.
It is did Iran attempt to deliver a NBC agent on an attack of a US military installation.

The use of any chemical or nuclear material being the payload of one or more missiles is I would think a pretty significant redline.


That’s the story, and as yet we only have on the record statements of army doctors who were present. And a retired JAG officer who considers there is enough evidence he’s willing to represent 100+ retired service members.

So yeah she’s only been able to deliver partial evidence to the articles main question. I was only pointing out that she has at least has done so with individuals with direct involvement to the incident. And are willing to go on the record publicly.

As opposed to “Anonymous sources who were in the room” like so many news stories seem to be based upon today.
That’s all
 
I would like to see a correlation in cancer rates between the military personal that were there and the general population in that part of the world. Was there a spike? Is this why the US choose evacuation instead of shelter in place bunkers in the event of hostilities with Iran recently?
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Also, I don't think you get thyroid cancer from TBI.
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