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Baghdad Iraq issued a warrant for the arrest of U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday as part of a Baghdad court s investigation into the killing of a top Iraqi paramilitary commander. Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of Iraq s largely pro-Iran Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary network, died in the same U.S. drone strike that killed storied Iranian general Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad airport on January 3 last year. The strike on their motorcade was ordered by Mr. Trump, who later crowed that it had taken out two (men) for the price of one.
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A member of the PMF stands in front of a mural marking the US drone strike that killed Iranian General Qasim Solemani and a major PMF leader one year earlier, Jan. 2, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – An Iraqi court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for outgoing US President Donald Trump over the killing of Iraq’s top paramilitary leader Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis along with his Iranian comrade Qassim Soleimani in a US-launched drone strike in January 2020.
“The special judge in the Rusafa Investigative Court, who is in charge of the investigation of the assassination of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Deputy Chairman Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis and his companions, issued an arrest warrant against former US President Donald Trump in accordance with Article 406 of the Iraqi Penal Code,” according to a statement reported by Iraq’s state media Iraqi News Agency.