War Iraq Issues an Arrest Warrant for President Trump

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Baghdad (AP) -- An arrest warrant was issued Thursday for outgoing President Donald Trump in connection with the killing of an Iranian general and a powerful Iraqi militia leader last year, Iraq's judiciary said.

The warrant was issued by a judge in Baghdad's investigative court tasked with probing the Washington-directed drone strike that killed Gen. Qassim Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the court's media office said. They were killed outside the capital’s airport last January.

Al-Muhandis was the deputy leader of the state-sanctioned Popular Mobilization Forces, an umbrella group composed of an array of militias, including Iran-backed groups, formed to fight the Islamic State group.

Soleimani headed the expeditionary Quds force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The arrest warrant was for a charge of premeditated murder, which carries the death penalty on conviction. It is unlikely to be carried out but symbolic in the waning days of Trump's presidency.

The decision to issue the warrant "was made after the judge recorded the statements of the claimants from the family of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis,” according to a statement from the Supreme Judicial Council. The investigation into the killings is ongoing, the court said.

The killings sparked a diplomatic crisis and strained U.S.-Iraq ties, drawing the ire of Shiite political lawmakers who passed a non-binding resolution to pressure the government to oust foreign troops from the country.

Iran-backed groups have since stepped up attacks against the American presence in Iraq, leading to threats by Washington to shutter its Baghdad diplomatic mission.
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Despite the potential in the symbolic angle, this will backfire in terms of PR for Iraq and Iran - it just furthers their current image of being internationally impotent and stupid. Who the fuck thinks that trying to use a local judiciary to convict a world leader makes sense in any way?
 
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Dark Edea said:
Did they spell "Bush", "Cheney" and "Rumsfeld" wrong? Even Obama gets a spot in that line before Trump.
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Trump assassinated an Iran general who was visited Iraq at the request of the Iraqi government.
This caused a lot of political turmoil between Iraq and the Trump administration

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Despite the potential in the symbolic angle, this will backfire in terms of PR for Iraq and Iran - it just furthers their current image of being internationally impotent and stupid. Who the fuck thinks that trying to use a local judiciary to convict a world leader makes sense in any way?
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Trump is the most hated man in the world right now and has been for some time. Anyone who does anything at all that could get Trump arrested is making a good move in the public eye.
 
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Bungus Scrungus said:
Remember that time we anally devastated the entire Iraqi army in not even a month? All that needs to be said.
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Welcome to Current Year Warfare, where the goal isn't to utterly and completely annihilate any enemy that finds themselves on the wrong end of your war machine; but rather to build them up and make them strong again after just wasting all those human lives and resources to destroy them in the first place.
 
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