US General Milley: Iran intended to kill US personnel in missile attack - Reuters

Iran’s missile attack on Wednesday had been intended to kill US personnel at Iraq’s al-Asad airbase, said US Army General Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff late Wednesday.

When asked if Iran would see this as an incomplete mission, given no US causalities and minimal damage, Milley said: “I think it’s perhaps too early to tell.”

He added that he and others in the military “fully expect” Shia militia groups in Iraq, backed by Iran, to carry out attacks against U.S. and US-led forces in Iraq and Syria: “That’s a very real possibility.”

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“I believe, based on what I saw and what I know, is that (the strikes) were intended to cause structural damage, destroy vehicles and equipment and aircraft and to kill personnel. That’s my own personal assessment,” 

“But the analytics is in the hands of professional intelligence analysts. So they’re looking at that.”