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White House memo says strike on Qassem Soleimani responded to past attacksReuters, Washington Saturday, 15 February 2020President Donald Trump ordered a drone strike that killed a top Iranian military commander last month in response to past attacks, the White House said in a memo released on Friday, despite previous administration assertions that it was due to an imminent threat.As required by law, the administration sent Congress an unclassified justification for the strike on January 2 that killed Qassem Soleimani at the airport in Baghdad. The strike, and Iran’s retaliation, raised fears of wider war and frustrated some lawmakers who said Trump had given them shifting justifications for the attack.“The President directed this action in response to an escalating series of attacks in preceding months by Iran and Iran-backed militias on US forces and interests in the Middle East region,†the report to Congress said.Read more at: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2020/02/15/White-House-memo-says-strike-on-Qassem-Soleimani-responded-to-past-attacks.html