Legal expert: Abdul-Mahdi is accused of murder and ruin .. He must be tried internationally

[yota691]

07-05-2020 01:27 PM

Legal expert: Abdul-Mahdi is accused of murder and ruin .. He must be tried internationally

 

 

Baghdad / news

The legal expert, Ahmed Al-Ziyadi, confirmed that the former Prime Minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, is facing charges of murder, ruin and waste of public money, and he must appear before domestic and international courts.

Al-Ziyadi told Al-Ikhbaria that "the huge amount of ruin, killing, chaos, wasting public money, conspiracy, and helping militias to kill, kidnap, and torture activists and demonstrators, all of which are charges involving Abdul-Mahdi."

He added, "The neglect, indifference, insult, and sitting of Abdul-Mahdi in the house in exceptional circumstances and his violation of the constitution and laws, all of these charges constitute crimes that will lead to his appearance before the courts, if not local and international."

 

[KristiD]

YIKES!  Them's fightin' words!!  I wonder who this Ahmet Al-Ziyadi is, I did a search and nothing came up.

[horsesoldier]

14 minutes ago, KristiD said:

YIKES!  Them's fightin' words!!  I wonder who this Ahmet Al-Ziyadi is, I did a search and nothing came up.

 

Pretty soon it will be - who WAS Ahmet Al-Ziyadi...just something to be on the lookout for. Opposition like this has a very brief “ shelf life “

[Floridian]

Yeah let's get Mahdi, but make sure you leave Maliki alone.

[WheresmyRV?]

I'm sure he's planning a getaway plan to Tehran about now.

[KDuesing]

And we thought Maliki was the bad guy.

[Laid Back]

Well, the new PM was chief of intelligence. I bet he have many files involving government officials in corruption, murder, waste of public money terrorism support and money laundering.

 

Go justice

Go punishment 

[yota691]

Ahed ended bloody and with an assassination .. Abdel Mahdi, who practiced his mission in the field of mines

Reports | 02:31 - 07/05/2020

 

 

 

 

BAGHDAD - Mawazine News
from Adel Abdul Mahdi, Iraq’s modern history will mention an independent prime minister who came to power with a consensual democracy as a figure capable of holding the stick from half internally and externally in a country that was then proud of the victory over ISIS, and came out carrying a button and a covenant that ended in bloody killing of demonstrators, and the operation An assassination has fueled tensions in the region.
And Abdul-Mahdi, 77, who took office in October 2018, has a long history in Iraqi politics. He is an economist who was born to a Shi’ite family in Baghdad whose roots are in Nasiriyah, which lived months before nights of blood and fire, and was familiar with the corridors of diplomatic circles, and he had before him the task of shaping the future of Iraq for four years.
But in December 2019, he became the first prime minister to leave office before the end of his term, in post-2003 Iraq, the date Saddam Hussein was toppled.
Abdul-Mahdi had multiple political affiliations during decades of his opposition in exile to the regime of the late dictator Saddam Hussein.
It was expected to be a bridge between several forces, among the pro-Iran Iran, which has great influence in Iraq, the United States allies, and supporters of the country's independent political decision-making, in addition to the Kurds who dispute with Baghdad the oil revenues.
- A name associated with sensitive stages -
Abdul-Mahdi resigned under the pressure of demonstrators who linked him to a ten-year-old scandal, accusing members of his personal security team of committing a bloody crime in a bank in Baghdad, but also under pressure from the country's supreme authority and his allies who called for "change".
And Abdul Mahdi, as his critics say, was the weakest link in the face of parties that were trying to tighten their grip on a country rife with corruption and cronyism.
"He loves unanimity and hates making radical decisions," says a senior official who has worked for a long time with Abdul-Mahdi.
But in the face of tens of thousands of demonstrators who took to the streets, "he was convinced that he had to fight against a coup."
"He (Abdel Mahdi) knew he could not be revolutionary," the official added, and he stuck to his political allies because he had no party or popular support.
The resigned prime minister was introduced to politics by his father, who was a minister during the era of the monarchy that fell in 1958 in Iraq. In the beginning, he joined the Baath party, which brought Saddam Hussein to power in the late 1970s.
After that, he became a fierce opponent of Saddam’s regime, first among the Communists, then by the Islamists ’“ sword ”, in his exile between Syria and Lebanon, before returning to Baghdad after its fall in the wake of the American invasion of the country in 2003.
-“ Power ”and Assassination -
At that point, Abdul-Mahdi became a prominent leader in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, a movement founded by Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, and at that time he was a companion to the leader of the Badr organization Hadi al-Amiri.
After all those experiences, Abd al-Mahdi withdrew from the political formations and presented himself as an independent.
One of the former officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, says that the many moves in politics "say that Abdel-Mahdi wants only one thing: power."
After his resignation, Abdul-Mahdi remained head of the caretaker government for more than five months, with two characters failing before the current prime minister, Mustafa al-Kazimi, to form a government.
The Abdul-Mahdi government witnessed the assassination of the Americans by Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Deputy Chairman of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Organization, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, in Baghdad.
The career of Abdul Mahdi began in Iraqi politics as a member of the Provisional Governing Council that was formed by the US military after 2003, and then he was briefly appointed as finance minister in the transitional government, before he became vice president after the first multi-party elections in Iraq in 2005.
In 2014 He was appointed oil minister in the government of the then Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, but he resigned from the post two years later.
On October 25, when he took office, the resigned prime minister, who speaks French and English fluently, confirmed that the resignation book was "in his pocket," but he did not release it until two months after the protests that resulted in the death of more than 400 people. End 29 / A 43