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Iraq: showdown between Baghdad and militias

2020-07-08T22:53:07.691Z


The new prime minister wants to trim the wings of the powerful pro-Iranian paramilitary formations."Hicham was dancing to death," said one of his friends, who was contacted by phone in Baghdad on Tuesday. The night before, Hicham al-Hachémi, 47, a recognized specialist in Daesh and the armed groups swarming in Iraq, was assassinated outside his home in the capital by three men riding on two mopeds, who shot him four times in the air. point blank as he got into his car. Read also: Jihadist spec...


"Hicham was dancing to death," said one of his friends, who was contacted by phone in Baghdad on Tuesday. The night before, Hicham al-Hachémi, 47, a recognized specialist in Daesh and the armed groups swarming in Iraq, was assassinated outside his home in the capital by three men riding on two mopeds, who shot him four times in the air. point blank as he got into his car.

Read also: Jihadist specialist Hicham al-Hashémi murdered in Baghdad

While in Iraq and on social networks, sympathy messages poured in, the new Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kazemi, "shocked" , greeted his "friend" , liquidated by "cowards" .

The assassination of al-Hashémi is also a message addressed to the head of government, engaged in a perilous arm wrestling with the powerful pro-Iranian militias, true State in the State, regularly denounced by Hicham al-Hachémi.

During the night of June 25-26, just a month and a half after the appointment of al-Kazemi as head of government - the result of a local political agreement between Iran and the

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Source: lefigaro

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