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    Iraq PM says corruption led to Camp Speicher massacre during visit to Tikrit

    By Mina Aldroubi
    The National

    Iraq’s rampant corruption, mismanagement and erroneous policies caused the 2014 Camp Speicher massacre committed by ISIS, Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi said on Wednesday.

    The mass killing, in which an estimated 1,700 unarmed, predominantly Shiite soldiers from Camp Speicher - a former US base outside the city of Tikrit - were killed, became a symbol of ISIS’s brutality against Iraqis.

    "Corruption, mismanagement and lawless policies are the causes of these tragedies, we must remember that our unity, institutions and national affiliation will prevent the recurrence of such massacres," Mr Al Kadhimi said during a visit to the site.

    The camp had "witnessed one of the most heinous massacres of humanity, and the innocent blood that fell here awakened the Iraqi conscience," he said.

    It is rare for senior Iraqi officials to visit sites of bloodshed, which can be seen to reflect the government's inability to maintain security and control over the country.

    The terrorist group posted images of the hundreds of soldiers they killed online.

    The fall of Tikrit in 2014 was part of the ISIS onslaught that stunned Iraqi security forces and the military, which melted away as the militants advanced and captured key cities and towns in the country’s north and west.

    Mr Al Kadhimi said the government will transform the site of the crime into a museum to “immortalise the sacrifices of Iraqis.”

    “We must always remember this innocent blood by preserving the victories that were achieved over terrorism and preserving our national identity,” he said.

    After the fall of Mosul in June 2014, nearly 3,000 soldiers from all over Iraq were ordered by their superiors to change into civilian clothes and leave Speicher camp.

    Those carrying weapons were told to leave them behind.

    Many of the soldiers were captured by the insurgents, who took them to various locations around Tikrit and executed them one by one in the worst single atrocity committed by the group.

    Videos showed masked gunmen bringing the soldiers to a bloodstained concrete river waterfront inside the presidential palace complex in Tikrit, shooting them in the head and throwing them into the Tigris River.

    Some of the bodies were buried in mass graves that were found after government forces recaptured the city in 2017.

    The prime minister said his office has put pressure on authorities to “accelerate the distribution of benefits to the victim’s families.”

    "We must learn from the lessons of the past in order to avoid the repetition of such tragedies and massacres," Mr Al Kadhimi said.

    Last June, the a UN team known as Unitad, set up in 2017 to hold ISIS accountable for its crimes, said that a war crimes probe found the terror group had committed seven types of international war crimes during the massacre.

    “Unitad categorises seven types of international crimes committed by ISIS against innocent Iraqis during the Camp Speicher massacre,” Karim Khan, the former head of the team said during a virtual UN session.

    “We remember the victims and remain committed to investigate the incident, collect evidence and build case files in line with international standards to support courts in Iraq to hold criminals accountable and bring justice to victims,” Mr Khan said.

    In 2016, Iraq hung 36 militants sentenced to death over the mass killings. It was the highest number of killings that the government had carried out since ISIS took over in 2014.

    The executions were carried out at a prison in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya.

    https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena...krit-1.1242684

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    Iraq hands death penalty to nine people for involvement in Speicher Massacre

    Kurdistan 24

    Iraqi judicial authorities announced on Sunday that the Central Criminal Court issued death sentences for nine people who were charged for involvement in the Speicher Massacre.

    After occupying much of northern and western of Iraq, ISIS shocked the nation on June 12, 2014, by killing over 1,500 cadets and other personnel at Camp Speicher, being used then as a military academy near Salahuddin province's Tikrit.

    In video footage released online by the group, gunmen were seen executing captives with a single, close-range shot to the head before dumping their bodies into the Tigris River or into shallow graves.

    The Iraqi judiciary claimed in a statement that the suspects who were sentenced to death "admitted they had participated" in perpetrating the massacre.

    In August 2016, Iraqi authorities executed 36 out of 50 ISIS affiliates in a single day for perpetrating the mass murder.

    It is not known exactly how many suspects in the massacre are in Iraqi prisons now, or how many are likely to face the death penalty.

    Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has previously pledged to establish a museum to commemorate the victims of the Speicher Massacre.

    https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story...icher-Massacre
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    Dutch Court Convicts Syrian of War Crimes Over Killing of Soldier

    Stephanie van den Berg
    Reuters

    A Dutch court sentenced a 49-year-old Syrian man on Friday to 20 years in prison for war crimes over his role in the execution of a government soldier during Syria's civil war.

    Judges said Ahmad al Khedr, also known as Abu Khuder, was a member of the Nusra Front rebel group, at one point al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria. They concluded his voice could be heard in a video of the execution of a captured and bloodied Syrian soldier who was shot on the banks of the Euphrates river in 2012.

    "Executing an imprisoned foe by the accused is not only murder but also an egregious violation of the written and unwritten rules of international humanitarian law and universal human rights," the judges wrote in their 40-page verdict.

    The case against Al Khedr was brought under Dutch universal jurisdiction laws under which national courts can try suspects for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide committed on foreign soil as long as the suspects reside in the Netherlands.

    Al Khedr has been in the Netherlands since 2014, where he had been granted temporary asylum. The charges against him were based on witness testimonies provided by German police, Dutch authorities said.

    It is the third time a Dutch court has convicted a Syrian national of war crimes during the civil war, previously handing down prison terms of up to seven years.

    Al Khedr's sentence was more severe than those of previous cases with Syrian fighters because he was found to have personally participated in the execution.

    In the absence of a tribunal for atrocities in Syria, where a decade of civil war killed an estimated 400,000 people and drove millions more from their homes, European courts have tried a handful of suspects.

    But most alleged violations have gone unpunished.

    https://www.usnews.com/news/world/ar...ing-of-soldier
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    Mastermind of deadly 2016 Baghdad bombing caught, Iraq says

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    Iraq has detained the Islamic State militant who masterminded a suicide bombing in Baghdad in 2016 that killed 300 people, its prime minister says.

    Ghazwan al-Zawbaee was captured in an "intelligence operation outside the country", Mustafa al-Kadhimi announced.

    He accused the Iraqi national of being the "primary culprit behind the Karrada atrocity and many others".

    The attack in the Karrada district was the deadliest single bombing in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.

    A lorry filled with explosives was blown up next to a crowded shopping centre where people had been enjoying a night out after breaking their daily fasts for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Many of the victims were killed by a fire that ripped through the building after the bomb blast.

    "Bringing those complicit in the shedding of our people's blood is a national duty," Mr Kadhimi declared in the statement announcing Mr Zawbaee's arrest.

    The prime minister did not say where he was captured, but two Iraqi intelligence officials told the Associated Press that the operation was carried out by Iraqi forces with the co-operation of an unnamed neighbouring country, and that he was transported to Iraq two days ago.

    The spokesman for the Iraqi security forces, Gen Yehia Rasool, tweeted photographs that showed a blindfolded man sitting next to two armed guards on a military transport aircraft.

    The general alleged that as well as overseeing the Karrada attack, Mr Zawbaee was behind a string of other deadly bombings in Baghdad and other provinces in 2016 and 2017.

    They included two car bomb attacks on 30 May 2017 that targeted an ice cream parlour in Karrada and a group of Shia Muslim pilgrims on a bridge in the Shawaka area, killing 26 people, he said.

    Last Monday, Mr Kadhimi said intelligence agents had arrested the alleged IS financial chief, Sami Jasim al-Jaburi, in a similar operation outside its borders.

    Security sources later told Reuters news agency that Mr Jasim, who was also said to have been a deputy to late IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was hiding out in north-western Syria and that Turkish intelligence helped capture him.

    IS once controlled 88,000 sq km (34,000 sq miles) of territory stretching from eastern Iraq to western Syria and imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people.

    Despite the group's defeat on the battlefield in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, it is estimated that thousands of militants remain active in both countries.

    Cells continue to wage a low-level insurgency in Iraq, operating mainly in rural areas and carrying out hit-and-run attacks that often target security forces and infrastructure.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-58957048
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    British ISIS militant guilty in kidnapping and murder of hostages

    El Shafee Elsheikh became the first and only member of the group nicknamed ‘the Beatles’ to be convicted by a U.S. jury

    By Rachel Weiner and Justin Jouvenal
    The Washington Post

    Nearly eight years after the Islamic State published horrifying videos of an American journalist being beheaded in the Syrian desert, a British militant was found guilty of taking part in the group’s spree of kidnapping, torture and murder.

    On Thursday, El Shafee Elsheikh, 33, became the only member of the group nicknamed “the Beatles” to be convicted by a U.S. jury. He faces a mandatory life sentence for conspiring to murder American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff and humanitarian workers Peter Kassig and Kayla Mueller.

    Mueller and the other victims followed the ethos of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Assistant U.S. Attorney Dennis Fitzpatrick told jurors, believing “it’s always the right time to do the right thing.”

    Through the harrowing testimony of captives who escaped, aid workers who tried to rescue their colleagues and families who spent years responding to impossible ransom demands, prosecutors over weeks of the trial at the federal court in Alexandria, Va., laid out the terror group’s scheme to leverage Western hostages, for money or propaganda purposes, during Syria’s civil war. The trial also revealed that there were only three Beatles, not four as long reported and believed.

    The families successfully pushed for the Trump administration to forgo seeking the death penalty to secure support for the prosecution from Britain.

    “It’s what the families asked for,” Mueller’s father, Carl Mueller, said. “As arduous and painful as this trial was, it was a privilege to be a part of it, and see the American justice system at work.”

    Surviving hostages testified that John Cantlie, a U.K. journalist, came up with “The Beatles” as a code name for the particularly cruel guards that had British accents. Mohammed Emwazi, who executed several hostages in gruesome propaganda videos, was “George” — even though he was later dubbed “Jihadi John” by the media. Emwazi was killed in a drone strike in 2015. Alexanda Kotey, who pleaded guilty in the same court last year, was “John.” Elsheikh, according to the evidence at trial, was “Ringo.”

    As recently as late 2020, authorities pointed to another Londoner who is in a Turkish prison, Aine Davis, as a member of the group. But FBI Special Agent John Chiappone testified at trial that the investigation ultimately found there were only three hostage-takers, and none of the witnesses said otherwise. One survivor, Italian aid worker Federico Motka, testified that another ISIS fighter with a British accent was dubbed Paul, “but wasn’t part of the main group of Beatles.” When asked why U.S. officials for years said there were four Beatles, a spokesman for the Justice Department only pointed to Chiappone’s testimony.

    Elsheikh and Kotey were captured trying to flee Syria in 2018. While in Kurdish custody, they gave a series of media interviews in which they eventually confessed to taking part in the hostage scheme, although they claimed their roles were only guard duty and ransom negotiations. Elsheikh described Foley’s bravery, Mueller’s isolation, and the filming of a video in which a Syrian prisoner was killed in front of other hostages. He also said there were only three hostage-takers, and that the fourth was a misconception created by the press.

    Defense attorney Nina Ginsberg posited in closing arguments that Elsheikh made those confessions only “to avoid being sent to Iraq for a summary trial and execution.”

    When they came into a prison, “The Beatles” always wore masks and made the hostages face the wall with their hands up, the hostages testified — a point Ginsberg emphasized.

    If it was difficult for hostages to pick out particular Beatles, they were unanimous in describing the feeling their captors instilled with their depravity: terror.

    They were particularly harsh on the American and British hostages, witnesses testified — singling out Foley because he had embedded with U.S. troops, Kassig because of his military background and Sotloff because they suspected he was Jewish. Europeans were freed through private or government funds. But British and American governments had forbidden such payments, and Danish journalist Daniel Rye Ottosen said it became clear at a certain point that the American and British hostages were “on a journey just for them.”

    They began banding together, he said. When Sotloff was caught trying to communicate with Mueller, Foley and Kassig said they were also to blame. When Foley was ordered to stand for 24 hours straight, Kassig and Sotloff did too.

    The wait was torture for the parents as well. While the U.S. launched a raid to try to save the hostages, that failed effort was the only attempt families saw to help them or their loved ones.

    Ottosen testified that Cantlie gave him a message to deliver to the British and U.S. authorities — “If you can’t get us released, kill us with a bomb so we can’t be used as propaganda.” Foley, Kassig and Sotloff were all beheaded for propaganda videos, along with British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.

    “To see him laying there in the sand, his head between his shoulders, did not make me angry or sad,” Ottosen testified of seeing the video of Foley’s death. “I felt happy for James that nobody could hurt him anymore; nobody could torture him anymore.”

    Foley, a 39-year-old teacher-turned-journalist from New Hampshire, was finishing a reporting trip in Syria when he was kidnapped. He was the first American killed. Sotloff, murdered next, was a 30-year-old freelancer from Miami. Like Foley, he was committed to making visceral stories out of complex conflicts in the Middle East.

    Kassig was 26 when he died; a former Army Ranger, he had gone to Syria to start a volunteer emergency medical service.

    Mueller was just starting to do humanitarian work in the region and was turning 25 when she was kidnapped leaving an Aleppo hospital. She was pronounced dead by ISIS in February 2015. The terrorist group blamed a Jordanian airstrike. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Raj Parekh told jurors that was a “propagandistic lie” and an “unlikely scenario.”

    Cantlie was last seen in an Islamic State video in December 2016. The Red Cross said in 2019 that Louisa Akavi, a New Zealand nurse who was held with Mueller, may still be alive.

    After the verdict, there were tears and embraces between the prosecutors, defense attorneys and witnesses who went through days of heart-rending testimony. In her closing on Elsheikh’s behalf, Ginsberg said “these extraordinary men and women, and the members of their families, were and are among the bravest people any of us will ever have the privilege to know.”

    Diane Foley said she thanked God for the verdict, and said it had special significance coming during a holy season for several religions.

    “It’s the very opposite of what our children experienced — justice, not revenge,” she said. “We sought the truth and the truth has emerged.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md...tles-hostages/

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    ISIS 'Beatle' member sentenced to life in prison for terror beheadings

    Alexanda Kotey sentenced for crimes he inflicted upon four Americans that ultimately resulted in their deaths

    By Caitlin McFall , Jake Gibson
    Fox News

    One of the men convicted of kidnapping and killing American journalist James Foley, along with three other Americans in Syria, was sentenced to life in prison in a Virginia court Friday.

    Alexanda Kotey, who was joined by El Shafee Elsheikh, was sentenced at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia for crimes he inflicted upon four Americans that ultimately resulted in their deaths.

    Elsheikh, who was convicted earlier this month and will face sentencing later, was directed by the judge to also be present at the sentencing Friday so that he could hear the impact statements given by family members of his victims.

    Kotey and Elsheikh, both of whom are British nationals, were a part of an ISIS cell dubbed "The Beatles" by their captives due to their accents.

    Ringleader of their group was the infamous Mohammed Emwazi, more commonly known as Jihadi John, who was killed in Syria in 2015.

    Foley was beheaded by Islamic State terrorists in Syria in 2014 after being kidnapped and held captive in 2012.

    "I pity you both for choosing hate," Michael Foley, brother to the American journalist said during his impact statement.

    Kotey, 38, is from west London where he converted to Islam before traveling to Syria and serving with ISIS from 2012 to 2015 when he was captured by Kurdish fighters.

    The U.S. Justice Department said Kotey participated in the "seizure, detention and hostage negotiations" of four Americans, including Foley, Kayla Mueller, Steven Sotloff and Peter Kassig.

    Kotey previously pled guilty to eight counts of hostage-taking and terrorism-related counts resulting in death.

    Foley, Sotloff and Kassig were all beheaded in 2014.

    Mueller later died in 2015 as an ISIS hostage during an airstrike.

    "We miss our beautiful daughter," her mother Marsha said during her impact statement, recalling details she learned of her daughter’s detention, torture and rape.

    "I lost my faith in God and our government," Mueller's father Carl said when addressing Kotey and Elsheikh.

    Kotey was charged with the crimes against the four Americans Friday, but he is known to have "participated in hostage operations involving British, Italian, Danish and German nationals, among others," according to the Department of Justice.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/isis-beat...life-in-prison
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    Islamic State ‘Beatle’ gets life term for US hostage deaths

    By Matthew Barakat
    AP

    ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — El Shafee Elsheikh, who was formally sentenced to life in prison Friday for a leading role in the beheading deaths of American hostages, had a somewhat whimsical nickname as a so-called “Beatle” that belied the viciousness of his conduct.

    In fact, he is the most notorious and highest-ranking member of the Islamic State group to ever be convicted in a U.S. court, prosecutors said at his sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria.

    Elsheikh and British counterparts Alexanda Kotey and Mohammed Emwazi led an Islamic State hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago. The hostages dubbed them Beatles because of their accents. Their appearance, always in masks, invoked dread among the hostages for the sadism they displayed.

    “This prosecution unmasked the barbaric and sadistic ISIS Beatles,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Raj Parekh.

    The life sentence was a foregone conclusion after a jury convicted him of hostage taking resulting in death and other crimes earlier this year.

    The convictions carried a mandatory life sentence. The U.S. agreed not to pursue a death sentence as part of a deal that ensured extradition of Elsheikh and his friend, Kotey, who has already been sentenced to life. Emwazi was killed in a drone strike.

    The convictions revolved around the deaths of four American hostages: James Foley, Steven Sotloff,Peter Kassig, and Kayla Mueller. All but Mueller were executed in videotaped beheadings circulated online. Mueller was forced into slavery and raped multiple times by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before she was killed.

    They were among 26 hostages taken captive between 2012 and 2015, when the Islamic State group controlled large swaths of Iraq and Syria.

    Parekh said it was difficult to convey the brutality of Elsheikh’s actions. “We lack the vocabulary of such pain,” he said, paraphrasing Dante’s Inferno.

    Still, victims of Elsheikh and the Beatles testified at Friday’s hearing and gave voice to what they experienced. Danish photographer Daniel Rye Ottosen, who was released after a ransom was paid, said the worst moments were times of silence during and after captivity when he was alone with his thoughts.

    He said when Elsheikh and the Beatles beat him up, it was almost a relief.

    “I knew I could only concentrate on my pain, which is much easier than being alone with your thoughts,” he said.

    Ottosen was particularly close to Foley, and memorized a goodbye letter that Foley wrote to his family so he could dictate it to Foley’s parents when he was released.

    Foley’s mother, Diane Foley, said holding Elsheikh accountable at trial sends a message of deterrence to other would-be hostage takers.

    “Hatred truly overwhelmed your humanity,” she told Elsheikh on Friday, which was the eighth anniversary of James Foley’s beheading.

    At trial, surviving hostages testified that they dreaded the Beatles’ appearance at the various prisons to which they were constantly shuttled and relocated. Elsheikh and the other Beatles played a key role in the hostage negotiations, getting hostages to email their families with demands for payments.

    They also routinely beat and tortured the hostages, forcing them to fight each other to the point of passing out, threatening them with waterboarding and forcing them view images of slain hostages.

    Elsheikh, 34, did not speak during Friday’s hearing. His lawyer, Zachary Deubler, said Elsheikh will appeal his conviction. Elsheikh’s lawyers had argued that his confessions should have been ruled inadmissible because of alleged mistreatment after he was captured by Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Forces in 2018.

    At Friday’s hearing, Deubler confined his arguments to a request that Elsheikh not be sent to the supermax prison facility in Florence, Colorado, where he would face solitary confinement for the rest of his life. Deubler said a designation to Florence is almost a certainty unless the judge recommends otherwise.

    Judge T.S. Ellis III declined to make any recommendation to the Bureau of Prisons.

    “The behavior of this defendant and his co-defendant can only be described as horrific, barbaric, brutal, callous and, of course, criminal,” Ellis said.

    Outside court, Mueller’s parents said they are still seeking information about her death and to recover her remains. Carl Mueller said he could not help but reflect on the disparate outcomes for European hostages — who were released after ransoms were paid — and American hostages who were killed because the U.S. refuses to pay ransom.

    “Hopefully our government in the future will do like so many others do, and get them home, not leave them,” he said.

    The Muellers and Diane Foley both said they have been able to meet with Kotey, whose guilty plea requires him to meet with interested families. Marsha Mueller declined to comment on her conversation.

    Dian Foley said she met with Kotey three different times, and it was beneficial to her.

    “I was able to share some of who Jim was and he was able to share some of why he felt it was a war situation and his excuses,” Foley said. “But he did articulate some remorse and and I was grateful for that.”

    https://apnews.com/article/virginia-...bb6144d6d1adb3

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    Lebanon arrests Saddam Hussein’s grandson in connection with major jihadist massacre at Camp Speicher

    Daniel Stewart
    MSN

    Lebanese authorities have confirmed the arrest of the grandson of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in connection with his possible involvement in one of the largest massacres committed by the Islamic State jihadist organization, the one perpetrated in 2014 at the Iraqi military academy of Camp Speicher, in which more than a thousand cadets and Shiite militiamen were executed.

    The arrest of Abdullah Yasser Sabawi al-Hasan, grandson of Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hasan, half-brother of the dictator, was finally announced by the Lebanese National Security Agency on Friday after several weeks of unverified information about his arrest.

    Sabawi was arrested last June 13 in the Lebanese city of Jbeil, pursuant to an Interpol arrest warrant for his alleged links to the Islamic State and, specifically, his possible connection to the Camp Speicher massacre.

    "We operate in accordance with international law, the judiciary and the orders of exchange and extradition of fugitives between nations, especially a brotherly country like Iraq," the head of the agency, General Abbas Ibrahim, told the Iraqi channel IMN TV, in statements reported by the Lebanese news portal Naharnet.

    Sabawi had sought refuge in Lebanon in 2018 with his family, after having lived in Yemen following the fall of the Hussein regime. Now, it remains to be seen whether he ends up extradited to Iraq to be investigated there for his alleged links with Islamic State, according to the charge sheet collected by Naharnet.

    The Camp Speicher massacre occurred on June 12, 2014, when Islamic State killed between 1,095 and 1,700 Iraqi cadets and Shiite militiamen after storming this facility in Iraq's Tikrit province.

    At the time of the massacre, there were between 5,000 and 10,000 unarmed cadets in the camp. The jihadists singled out Shiites and non-Muslims for execution.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...3e408006c853b8
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    Iraq Issues Arrest Warrant For Donald Trump

    By: Liam Fegan
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    The Iraqi Supreme Court has released an arrest warrant for former U.S. President Donald Trump in connection with the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, on Iraqi soil, according to a report by IraqiNews citing a Baghdad news agency.

    A drone strike near the Baghdad airport in January 2020 claimed the lives of both Soleimani and the deputy chairman of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in Iraq. The warrant was issued on Thursday in connection with their deaths. Iranian attacks against the American base at Aia Al-Assad in Iraq were the result of that assassination mission. The warrant for Trump’s arrest alleges that he planned to kill someone. The death penalty is applied in cases of this kind, regardless of whether the warrant is essentially meaningless.

    Faiq Zaidban, the head of the Supreme Judicial Council, urged Baghdad to hold Trump “accountable for this heinous crime,” according to IraqiNews, which cited the Baghdad Today news agency. Ironically, in November, the speaker of the Iraqi parliament admitted that Iranian-backed militias had kidnapped and killed hundreds, if not thousands, of civilians between 2014 and 2016.

    Iraq, which currently produces more oil than any other nation in OPEC besides Saudia Arabia, is pitted between two rival powers, Iran and the United States. Since the 2003 U.S. invasion that led to the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iran’s influence in Iraq has significantly increased. In October, Iraq’s parliament appointed a new pro-Iranian prime minister, leading to the dominance of pro-Iranian parties. These parties have marginalized Shi’ite contender Moqtada al Sadr, who had been disrupting the government with protests against Iranian actions. The PMF leader who was assassinated in a military operation ordered by Trump was the head of an umbrella group that united pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, which were supported by the government as a part of the Iraqi armed forces.

    Time will tell whether anything more than symbolism comes from this warrant.

    https://theatlasnews.co/politics/202...-donald-trump/
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    That‘s just laughable. The guy was a terrorist and his death was legally justifiable
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