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Jon K. Rust

Jon K. Rust is publisher of the Southeast Missourian and president of Rust Communications.

American leaders agree Soleimani was a bad man, disagree on risks

Saturday, January 4, 2020 ~ Updated 10:47 AM

Here are some of the voices on the Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, who is blamed for orchestrating the killing of hundreds of American servicemen — and hundreds of thousands of others, including being the evil mastermind behind countless terrorist strikes in the Middle East. His death removes a powerful force for ill in the world. But the full repercussion of the American military’s targeted strike on him and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the man operationally behind the attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, will not be known immediately.

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