The President of the United States
microblog · @POTUS · state · 9 February 2026, 19:30
Good evening. This morning American forces took control of Keflavik and of the island of Iceland.
— Address to the nation, the Oval Office
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Two days earlier the Joint Staff had delivered two binders. The first said Iceland could be taken in forty-eight hours. The second said the British Isles could not be taken at all, and recommended he make the Greenland-Iceland line the permanent boundary. He read the first. Seven days after saying "that is where it stops", he authorised Operation Albion Anvil.
Same day
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@sigga_rvk · civilian
9 Feb 2026 03:10
The whole sky over Reykjanes just lit up. Not lightning. It went up, not down. My daughter is asking me what it is and I am telling her it is nothing.
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@ingaskram · reporter
9 Feb 2026 04:05
Keflavik is under attack. Confirmed: the French air defence battery has been destroyed. There are casualties. Runway is cratered at both ends. I am fifteen kilometres away and I can see it.
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@rvk_barista · civilian
9 Feb 2026 05:10
I have been awake since 02:40. Everyone in this building has been awake since 02:40. There is no shelter. There is no siren. There is no procedure. We are a country that decided eighty years ago not to have any of that, and this morning we found out what that …
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@taipei_ming · civilian
9 Feb 2026 06:00
They destroyed the air defences first, then the aircraft, then cratered the runway, then landed. I have read that sequence in staff college papers about my own island for twenty years. Watching it executed on a NATO member at four in the morning has been the s…
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@GIUKwatch · osint
9 Feb 2026 06:30
Sequence as far as we can reconstruct it: 02:40 — SEAD package off the carrier. AARGM-ER and JASSM. MAMBA battery kills four, is overwhelmed by the second salvo. Radar and generators destroyed. 03:15 — Four Typhoons scramble. Two shot down BVR by F-22s staged …
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@Elysee · state
9 Feb 2026 08:15
Neuf militaires français ont été tués cette nuit à Keflavík par des forces des États-Unis d'Amérique. Nine French service personnel were killed last night at Keflavík by the armed forces of the United States of America.
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@paulette_lyon · civilian
9 Feb 2026 09:00
Neuf. Nine. Nine French families were woken up this morning by an officer at the door because of a decision taken in a room in Washington by people who will never learn their names. I taught for forty years that this is how it always begins. Not with a declara…
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@rally_rachel · civilian
9 Feb 2026 10:30
They put a missile battery seven hundred miles from our troops and pointed it at them. I am sorry about the nine. I am. But do not ask me to pretend those men were standing on that rock by accident, or that the alternative was nobody getting hurt.