BAGHDAD (Dispatches) -- A senior Iraqi lawmaker says the country’s judiciary is likely to issue an arrest warrant against former prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi over his complicity in the assassination of top Iranian anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and his associates.
Fazil Zarijawi, a member of the State of Law Coalition, told the Arabic service of Shafaq news agency that the 55-year-old Iraqi politician is currently residing in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone under the protection of the US embassy.
He added that the chances are high that an arrest warrant would be issued against Kadhimi and he would undergo interrogation over his involvement in “the heist of the century” – a brazen multibillion-dollar plundering of state coffers – and targeted killings of the two high-profile anti-terror commanders.
On November 27, a total of 78 Iraqi plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against former U.S. president, Donald Trump, former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, former U.S. ambassador to Baghdad Matthew H. Tueller, al-Kadhimi, and former director of the National Operations Center Dhia al-Musawi over the assignation of Lieutenant General Soleimani and Muhandis, registering their case at the Federal Court of Appeal in the capital Baghdad.
Among the complainants was Muhammad Hassan Jaafar, a brother of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed in the U.S. drone strike near Baghdad international airport more than two years ago.