Defense Secretary Mark Esper claimed Soleimani 'for sure' had plans to attack U.S. targets 'days' before he was killed.
The U.S. did not know exactly when slain Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani planned to execute attacks on Americans, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses a news conference in the Press Briefing Room at the State Department in Washington, January 7, 2020.The U.S. did not know exactly when slain Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani planned to execute attacks on Americans, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said while maintaining the Trump administration's line that such attacks were about to happen.
The administration has been circumspect about what those plans actually entailed and when there were expected to be carried out, however. And some members of Congress, including a handful of Republicans,
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