Turkey Just Tried to Kill Americans. Will Biden React?

On Saturday, General Mazloum Abdi, the head of the Syrian Kurdish militia and America’s chief ally in the fight against ISIS , was wrapping up meetings in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaymani. He had been meeting with both the local Kurdish leadership and American officials. Together, the group drove in a convoy to the local civilian airport, where they planned to see Mazloum off on a short flight back to Syrian Kurdistan.

I have watched a surveillance video from the airport: Five SUVs go by. Three seconds later, a drone-fired missile explodes along the side of the road.

American intelligence detected the Turkish drones in the area shortly before and warned the Turks they were tracking Americans; the Turkish operators responded that they did not care. While some journalists have speculated the Turkish attack deliberated missed and was merely a warning to Washington, the facts belie this. Because of earlier heavy rainfall, the ground was saturated and muddy. The missile reportedly penetrated deep into the ground before exploding, dampening the explosion and perhaps saving the Americans’ lives, not to mention Mazloum’s.

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