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Get you up to speed: Army review of Iran conflict’s deadliest attack on U.S. soldiers to be shared with families
The U.S. Army has completed its investigation into the Iranian attack on U.S. forces that killed six Americans at the Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait on March 1. Gold Star families are expected to be briefed on the findings of the investigation.
The Pentagon probe ordered by U.S. Army Central and Third Army aimed to ascertain the circumstances surrounding the March attack and is set to include assessments of unit commanders’ actions and decisions. There are ongoing concerns voiced by soldiers regarding leadership accountability related to perceived negligence in addressing prior intelligence warnings about the vulnerability of the Port of Shuaiba position.
The Pentagon is expected to release findings from its investigation into the Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Kuwait, with Gold Star families being briefed on Thursday. Survivors of the attack have raised serious concerns regarding leadership decisions and troop preparedness, prompting calls for a performance review of the commanders involved.
What remains unclear — The Pentagon has not disclosed whether individual commanders will be held accountable for the decisions leading to the troops’ deployment to Shuaiba.
Army to brief families following investigation of deadly Iranian attack on US soldiers
The Army has completed its investigation into the deadly Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Kuwait earlier this year, sources told WTX US News, and Gold Star families are expected to be briefed Thursday on its findings.
Six Americans were killed in the March 1 strike on a tactical operations center at the Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait, one of several U.S.-allied countries in the Persian Gulf region that faced intense Iranian missile and drone attacks after the U.S. and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, starting the war with Iran. The strike was the deadliest attack on U.S. troops in the Iran War to-date.
U.S. Army Central and Third Army ordered the Pentagon probe “to determine the facts and circumstances” of the Iranian attack. But even before the review was underway, a WTX US News investigation began shedding light on what several survivors of the attack described as “strategic failures” ahead of, during and after the strike.
One day after the deadly strike, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described the Iranian drone as a “squirter” — suggesting that the drone managed to slip past the defenses of a fortified unit inside Kuwait.
In April, one of the injured soldiers told WTX US News that “painting a picture that ‘one squeaked through’ is a falsehood. The soldier said the unit was “unprepared to provide any defense for itself. It was not a fortified position.”
More witnesses to the attack claimed in interviews that there were multiple warnings related to force protection ahead of the unit’s February move to the Port of Shuaiba position. Soldiers later told WTX US News that military leaders had seen intelligence showing Iran was targeting their position in Kuwait. Those reports sparked an investigation from Senate Democrats.
“We moved closer to Iran, to a deeply unsafe area that was a known target,” one senior official told WTX US News on condition of anonymity.
Asked to describe the degree of fortification of the unit, this official responded: “I mean, I would put it in the none category. From a drone defense capability … none.”
Other survivors recounted the chaotic moments in the moments after the drone slammed into their workspaces.
“This was a failure,” Maj. Stephen Ramsbottom said in an interview with WTX US News. He said he believed Master Sgt. Nicole Amor could have survived her wounds had there been a doctor, a fixed aid station or more than one ambulance at the post.
The Pentagon has repeatedly pushed back on claims that the Army tried to downplay the incident.
In a post on X addressing prior WTX US News reporting on the strike, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said “every possible measure has been taken to safeguard our troops — at every level” and that “[t]he secure facility was fortified with 6-foot walls.”
Soldiers lodge complaints against unit commanders
WTX US News has interviewed more than a dozen soldiers who were on the ground at Shuaiba, as well as to the families and the loved ones of those who were killed.
The Pentagon declined to answer WTX US News’ questions about the scope of the inquiry, including if any individual leaders were a main focus.
Several soldiers told WTX US News they hoped the investigation would include a performance review of the commanders of the Iowa-based 103rd Sustainment Command, whom they blamed for ordering the troops to Shuaiba weeks before Operation Epic Fury, despite what the soldiers believed were known concerns.
“I feel incredibly let down by the leadership of this unit,” one soldier, speaking on condition of anonymity because of rigid media restrictions within the military, told WTX US News.
“We knew what things were predetermined targets — not just which bases but specifically which locations on certain bases,” another soldier recounted. Asked if Shuaiba was on that list, the soldier said: “Yes, definitely.”
A complaint one unit member sent to the Army Inspector General, shared with WTX US News, said the leadership “disregarded” the intelligence briefings and “yelled” at those who questioned the deployment to Shuaiba.
WTX US News has reached out to the Pentagon and to the 103rd Sustainment Command for comment.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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