Thousands of Iraqis packed the streets of the southern city of Basra on Tuesday ...
BASRA, Iraq - Thousands of Iraqis packed the streets of the southern city of Basra on Tuesday to mourn Iranian-backed militia leader Jamal Jaafar Ibrahimi, known by his nom de guerre Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was killed by a U.S. air strike last week.
A U.S. drone strike on Friday at Baghdad airport killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who oversaw Tehran’s campaign to extend its influence across the region, and Muhandis in an attack that has raised concern of a wider conflict in the Middle East. His death means Iran will have a harder time controlling its militia allies in Iraq, analysts say. Both the near-mythical status he had among these groups and the close personal relationship he had with Soleimani will be hard to replace.
Muhandis fought for decades with Soleimani and other prominent Iraqi militia leaders such as Badr Organization chief Hadi al-Amiri, now the most likely candidate to succeed him. “I pray I spend the afterlife with...those I fought with, from Kuwait, to Iran, to Iraq. The Badr youth, and later the resistance against the occupation, and now the PMF youth.”
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