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| ‘Assassinating’ Saudi envoy in Baghdad an ‘honor,’ says Iraqi militia chief |
| 2016-08-27 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Aws al-Khafaji, head of the Iraqi militia group Abu al-Fadhl al-abbas, which is currently part of the country’s anti-ISIS Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), said the Saudi ambassador to Iraq Thamer al-Sabhan is a "wanted person" and it is an "honor for everyone if he was assassinated." "The animosity of the Iraqi people towards Sabhan is obvious," he added in an interview with Wesal TV on Monday. On Sunday, sources told the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat with full details that Iran has plans to assassinate the ambassador and has commissioned Shiite militia groups to do so. The envoy, Sabhan, meanwhile, told Al Arabiya net that despite liquidation threats from "sectarian radical groups," the embassy’s operations will continue. "We will not stop our support to the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people deserve all the sacrifice and love. We will not only continue all our normal measures and tasks, but more than before," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |