The attack a year ago that took out a senior Iranian commander, and an allied Iraqi paramilitary commander, has infuriated many Iraqis.
Iraq issued a warrant for the arrest of U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday as part of a Baghdad court’s investigation into the killing of a top Iraqi paramilitary commander. Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of Iraq’s largely pro-Iran Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary network, died in the same U.S. drone strike that at Baghdad airport on January 3 last year. The strike on their motorcade was ordered by Mr. Trump, who later crowed that it had taken out « two (men) for the price of one. » « An arrest warrant against the outgoing President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has been issued in accordance with the provisions of Article 406 of the Iraqi Penal Code, » Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council confirmed in a statement on Thursday, adding that the investigations would continue « to identify others who participated in committing this crime, whether they are Iraqis or foreigners. » The United Nations special rapporteur for extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, has described the twin killings as « arbitrary » and « illegal.
