US kills Iranian general, complaint against SPD ombudsman fizzles, and other headlines

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Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani was killed by a U.S. drone strike yesterday

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Strike still in the waiting room
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We got him
Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, a leader in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, was killed in a U.S. drone strike. He's been blamed for numerous American deaths, but did killing him make Americans safer or just raise the risk of war? (New York Times)

A Methodist to their madness
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