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Javed Ali, The Conversation, 22 June 2025
The $4 million munition is in high demand and was key to defending a major U.S. air base in Qatar last month as Iran launched a ballistic missile attack in response to the U.S. targeting its nuclear facilities.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 10 July 2025
Pullman stars as President Thomas J. Whitmore, who takes command of an air base and delivers a massive speech to the awaiting fighters that are taking on an alien race that has invaded Earth.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
Two days after the strike, U.S. officials got word that Iran was planning to launch a retaliatory attack on an American air base in Qatar called al-Udeid.
—Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 26 June 2025
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Its retaliatory attack against the U.S. Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq involved 27 ballistic missiles and caused the physical destruction of some of the facilities on base as well as traumatic brain injury-type symptoms to dozens of troops and personnel, but no deaths.
—Javed Ali, The Conversation, 22 June 2025
The $4 million munition is in high demand and was key to defending a major U.S. air base in Qatar last month as Iran launched a ballistic missile attack in response to the U.S. targeting its nuclear facilities.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 10 July 2025
Pullman stars as President Thomas J. Whitmore, who takes command of an air base and delivers a massive speech to the awaiting fighters that are taking on an alien race that has invaded Earth.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
Two days after the strike, U.S. officials got word that Iran was planning to launch a retaliatory attack on an American air base in Qatar called al-Udeid.
—Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 26 June 2025
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