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Iran’s Resistance Axis Rattled by Divisions: Asaib Ahl al-Haq’s Leader Rejects the Ceasefire in Iraq
Publication: Terrorism Monitor Volume: 19 Issue: 3
AAH Leader Qais al-Khazali (source: timesofisrael.com)
On December 20, 2020, 21 Katyusha rockets struck the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, breaking an Iranian-sponsored ceasefire in Iraq for a second time (U.S. Central Command, December 23, 2020). The Iraqi security forces later arrested a member of the Iraqi political and militant organization Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH), Hussam al-Azirjawi, after finding conclusive evidence of his involvement in the attack (al-Hurra, December 26, 2020). Following al-Azirjawi’s arrest, multiple widely-shared clips on social media appeared to show a large mobilization of armed AAH militants in East Baghdad. A further clip showing masked AAH gunmen threatening to attack Iraqi security forces on command from AAH leader, Qais al-Khazali (al-Arabiya, December 25 2020). These arrests and video clips reveal t
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17 December 2020 11:04 AM
17 years ago Saddam Hussein had just been captured and I was on my way across the desert to to Baghdad, to write this. MISERABLE makeshift tombstones, hacked out of polystyrene, marked the place where they had hurriedly buried the body-parts hosed from the road in the poor suburb of Al Bayaah.
A grimy, tense crowd stood and stared among the puddles as rescue workers gathered up the debris from yet another explosion in Baghdad. I asked them who they blamed.