Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis

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Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis (2018)

Jamal Jafar Mohammed Ali Āl Ebrahim ( Arabic جمال جعفر محمد علي آل إبراهيم, DMG Ǧamāl Ǧaʿfar Muḥammad ʿAlī Āl Ibrāhīm , born July 1, 1954 ; died January 3, 2020 in Baghdad ), known by his battle name Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis ( Arabic أبو مهدي المهندس; al-Muhandis for "the engineer"), was an Iraqi - Iranian politician and leader of paramilitary units.

Life

Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and Qasem Soleimani (left) at the funeral of Soleimani's father, Tehran 2017

Jamal Jafar Al Ibrahim was born in 1954 near Basra to an Iraqi father and an Iranian mother. In 1977 he completed an engineering degree and in the same year joined the Shiite Dawa party , which fought against Saddam Hussein . After Saddam Hussein's ban on the Dawa party, he fled to Iran for the first time in 1979, where he joined Iraqi dissidents in Ahvaz who had set themselves the goal of fighting Saddam.

In 1983, he began working with the Iranian Pasdaran in Kuwait and organized attacks on embassies from countries that supported Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war . A few hours after the attack on the US and French embassies in Kuwait on December 12, 1983, he again fled to Iran. He was sentenced in absentia to death by a Kuwaiti court for planning the attacks.

At the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003 he returned to Iraq and became security advisor to Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari . In 2005 he was elected to the Iraqi parliament as a representative of the Dawa party in Babil governorate. When US authorities became aware of his involvement in the attacks in Kuwait in 1983 and discussed this with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in 2007 , he fled again to Iran. In December 2011, after the withdrawal of the US troops was completed, he returned to Iraq and became the military head of the Kata'ib Hesbollah , which is part of the Popular Mobilization Forces .

On December 31, 2019, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo , together with Qais Khazali , Hadi al-Amiri and Falih Alfayyadh , named him responsible for the sometimes violent protests in front of the US embassy in Baghdad at the turn of the year 2019-2020. At the time of his death, al-Muhandis was the head of al-Hashd al-Shay'bi in Iraq, which had fought against IS . He was killed in a US drone attack in Baghdad along with Qasem Soleimani and five other people.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Othman al-Mukhtar: Fugitive from international justice now militia leader in Iraq Al-Araby, English edition. 4th January 2015
  2. ↑ Iraqi lawmaker was convicted in 1983 bombings in Kuwait that killed 5 . The New York Times , February 7, 2007
  3. ↑ He obtained Iranian citizenship and became a military advisor to the Quds unit . Inside the plot by Iran's Soleimani to attack US forces in Iraq Reuters, January 4, 2020
  4. ^ Daniel Gerlach : Drone attack against Abu Al-Muhandis. The man who died at Soleimani's side . Book excerpt titled "Obituary" in: Zenith , January 3, 2020
  5. ↑ Peter Beaumont: Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis: Iraqi killed in US strike was key militia figure . Guardian
personal data
SURNAME Muhandis, Abu Mahdi al-
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi-Iranian politicians and military
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1954
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 2020
Place of death Baghdad