LEAKED INTEL: Iranian Attack Exposes U.S. Soldiers to Radioactive Materials, Courts BLOCK Soldiers Lawsuits

A leaked military memo is making the rounds.

Turns out military members were exposed to toxic agents, including radioactive materials.

This occurred after Iran’s ballistic missile attack on their base in January 2020.

A retired Army JAG claims that courts and the Justice Department have sided with Iran, preventing injured service members from suing the country.

Anyone really surprised?

The incident at Al Asad base occurred in retaliation for the U.S. strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.

BREAKING: Leaked Military Memos Indicate US Soldiers Were Exposed to Potentially Toxic Agents Including Radioactive Materials After Iran’s Jan 2020 Ballistic Missile Attack On Their Base

Retired Army JAG Says Both The Courts And The Biden-Harris DOJ Have “Sided with Iran.”… pic.twitter.com/NQua6E9U70

— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) October 3, 2024

Daily Mail reports:

Iran‘s assault on the Al Asad airbase in Iraq on January 8, 2020 remains the largest ballistic missile attack on American forces in US history.

Now, leaked military memos suggest that US service members may also have been exposed to toxic and radioactive materials by that strike.

Yet, to date, neither President Joe Biden‘s administration nor his predecessor’s have publicly acknowledged that US soldiers in Iraq may have been imperilled by hazardous fallout.

Iran’s attack on Al Asad was launched in retaliation for the US strike, ordered by former President Donald Trump on January 3, 2020, that killed top Islamic Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani.

Eleven warheads, each weighing about 1,600 lbs, struck the air base.

Alan Johnson, a retired flight surgeon, who was stationed at Al Asad at the time of the strike, told me, ‘None of us really should have survived and we weren’t expected to survive.’

‘The amount of percussive force that travels through your body, you can’t really put words to that,’ Johnson said, describing how one missile detonated just 60 feet from his bunker.

‘If you fell off [a] fourth-story roof onto your back and survived, that’s probably what it felt like… I was knocked unconscious twice from two different impacts,’ he added.

I first reported on the Al Asad attack in 2021 while working at CBS News. Then, our investigation revealed that dozens of service members with traumatic brain injuries from the strike were not immediately recognized with the ‘Purple Heart’ – a military decoration awarded to those wounded or killed while serving.

After our report, the Army quickly moved to retroactively approve the awards.

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Three years later, I have confirmed that some of the same injured service members, now in their 20s and early 30s, are sick – and that they attribute their illnesses to exposure to fallout from Iran’s strike.

We are publishing internal military memos detailing “Exposure to Hazardous and Toxic Material” after Iran’s ballistic missile attack Jan 2020 pic.twitter.com/ILmCfCr3Wo

— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) October 3, 2024