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July 16, 2021
Iraq s prime minister on Friday announced police had arrested the man who last year shot dead prominent analyst and government adviser, Hisham al-Hashimi.
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announed on Iraqi television Friday that Hashimi’s killer had been arrested. Iraqi media reported that four men involved in the murder have been arrested, and that an employee of Iraq’s Interior Ministry, Ahmed Hamdawi al-Kinani, had confessed to the killing.
Al-Iraqiyya TV showed what it said was footage of the suspected killer confessing to the murder. A man identifying himself as Ahmed Hamdawi al-Kinani, a first lieutenant in the ministry, said he was behind the killing.
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