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From Resort Amid Palm Trees, Trump Settled on Iran Strike

Associated Press

   WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. - At the midway point of his annual Christmas
   vacation, President Donald Trump huddled at his Florida club with his
   top national security advisers. Days earlier, a rocket attack by an
   Iranian-funded group struck a U.S.-Iraqi base, killing an American
   contractor and wounding several others.

   Trump's advisers presented him with an array of options for responding,
   including the most dramatic possible response: taking out Gen. Qassem
   Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force and the man responsible
   for hundreds of Americans deaths.

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