Hundreds of Iranian-backed activists stormed the US Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday.
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Iraqi security forces failed to stop the siege of the US Embassy.
The Iraqi protesters were carrying Hezbollah flags.
The US ambassador and personnel were evacuated.
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1211966497180008450
UPDATE— The Iranian-backed “protesters” scrawled, “Qassem Soleimani is our leader” on the US embassy wall. Soleimani is the leader of Iran’s Qods Force. He built the Iraqi militias.
https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1212002901972934656
Qassem Soleimani is leader of the Iranian al-Quds Force -— a division primarily responsible for extraterritorial military and clandestine operations.
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The leader of pro-Iranian Shiite militias is at the protests today.
This gentleman monitoring the protest is Falih al-Fayyadh. He’s chairman of al-Hashd al-Sha’bi (the Popular Mobiliazation units) the official umbrella organization that knits together the pro-Iranian Shiite militias. pic.twitter.com/ddGAqMoO10
— Mike (@Doranimated) December 31, 2019
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, founder and leader of Kata’ib Hizballah.
https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1212012370081599488
Qais al-Khazali, the leader of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, a pro-Iranian militia.
https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1212018144178507777
Qais Khazali, served as a spokesman for the rebel Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, in Iraq for years.
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Qais Khazali, seen in a 2004 photo, has been a spokesman for radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the past. (CNN)
English-speaking Iraqi terrorists, linked to Khazali, kidnapped and murdered 5 US soldiers near Karbala in January 2007.
Today Khazali is at the violent protests at the US Embassy in Baghdad.
https://twitter.com/Kianoosh_sa1/status/1212039805867044865
Asaeb Ahl al-Haq chief Qais al-Khazali
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Heads of #Iran-backed militias among the crowd outside the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
-Asaeb Ahl al-Haq chief Qais al-Khazali
-Hashd al-Shaabi (PMF) chief Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes
-Badr Corps chief Hadi al-AmeriAnd Iraqi National Security Advisor Falih Alfayyadh, very close to Tehran pic.twitter.com/Bqj5CNbtQj
— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) December 31, 2019
Today’s marches are led by Badr Corps head, Hadi al-Amiri, and AAH’s head, Qais al-Khazali.
Security sources say “ISF lost the control over the Green Zone, and failed to stop storming it by marchers.”#IraqJournal pic.twitter.com/Aug1YLD2FI
— Iraq Journal (@iraq_journal) December 31, 2019
Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iranian-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia, and many other senior leaders were among the protesters.
“Americans are unwanted in Iraq. They are a source of evil and we want them to leave,” Khazali told Reuters. https://t.co/P7PHhTFsqj— Barbara Malmet (@B52Malmet) December 31, 2019