Former CIA chief Leon Panetta told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Friday that Qassem Soleimani never showed up on a direct target list because the threat from Iran was not from 'one particular individual.'
, former head of the CIA Leon Panetta told host Wolf Blitzer that Qassem Soleimani was never on the direct target list which would have singled him out for termination.
Panetta explained that Soleimani was not on the list because it was difficult to narrow down who should be on it. "He was a bad actor and he did kill thousands of innocent people and U.S. forces as well, hundreds of our men and women in uniform," Panetta said.
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