The first US service members to die in the conflict between the US and Iran were killed by a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations center at a civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday morning local time, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.
The death toll from that event at the Shuaiba port has since risen to six, US Central Command announced on Monday afternoon, after the remains of two additional service members were recovered.
Earlier Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the strike that killed the service members hit a “tactical operation center that was fortified,” but there was “one” projectile that made it through air defenses. CNN previously reported the event was a suspected drone strike.
Wait are Israel and the US sending warnings and sirens ahead of their bombs?
Or is this CNN writer just discovering what bombings at wartime look like.
Bombable locations often have air raid sirens to alert personnel to seek shelter.
A “tactical operation center that was fortified” ought to have such a thing, whereas a “makeshift operations center at a civilian port in Kuwait” is much less likely to.
The lack of warning speaks to the lies and poor planning of hegseth and other regime goons.
Appreciate the genuine clarification.
I was really referring to the juxtaposed asymmetry of the experience between Iran’s populace suddenly wearing bombs and seeing a school of 100+ girls wiped out in an instant with the US-Israeli completely unannounced bombings (not even a declaration of hostilities), and then CNN crying foul at an unannounced bombing on a military target.