U.S. Lists Leader Of Iran-Backed Shi’ite Militia In Iraq As ‘Global Terrorist’
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(Worthy News) – The United States has declared the leader of the Iran-backed Kataib Hizbullah (KH) militant group in Iraq a terrorist following a number of recent rocket attacks on bases hosting U.S. and other foreign troops in Iraq.
A State Department official on February 26 said the United States has listed Ahmad al-Hamidawi, head of the armed faction of the group, as a “specially designated global terrorist.”
The action will freeze U.S. assets that he might hold and make any transactions with him a crime. The KH group was in 2009 declared a terrorist group. [ Source: Radio Free Europe (Read More…) ]
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