AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Hundreds of Indian Muslims in the mountainous city of Kargil held a symbolic funeral procession for anti-terror Commanders Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis who were assassinated by the terrorist army of the US in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad nearly two weeks ago.
In a minus 5-degree-of-Celsius cold weather, people from different parts of Kargil in the union territory of Ladakh in India, held ceremonies in commemoration of General Soleimani and his companions for the fourth day.
The participants voiced their strong condemnation of the terrorist act of the US in the brutal and unfair assassination of General Soleimani who was on an official visit to Iraq and was slated to have a meeting with the country’s Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi.
Lieutenant General Soleimani was martyred in a targeted assassination attack by the US drones at Baghdad International Airport early on Friday morning.
The airstrike also martyred Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), or Hashad al-Shaabi. The PMF media arm said the two were martyred in an American airstrike that targeted their vehicle on the road to the airport.
Five Iranian and five Iraqi militaries were martyred by missiles fired by the US drone at Baghdad International Airport.
The Pentagon confirmed the attack in a statement.
The attack came amid tensions that started by the US attack on PMF units that killed 28 Iraqi popular forces. A day later, Iraqi people attacked the US embassy in Baghdad. A few days earlier President Donald Trump ordered about 750 US soldiers deployed to the Middle East.
US officials earlier suggested they were to engage in further retaliatory attacks in Iraq.
The developments also represent a major downturn in Iraq-US relations that could further undermine US influence in the region and American troops in Iraq and weaken Washington’s hand in its pressure campaign against Iran.
The attack represents a dramatic escalation by the US toward Iran after months of tensions. The tensions take root in Trump’s decision in May 2018 to withdraw the US from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, struck under his predecessor.
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source : FNA
Monday
20 January 2020
2:16:48 PM
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Indians mourn for General Soleimani
Hundreds of Indian Muslims in the mountainous city of Kargil held a symbolic funeral procession for anti-terror Commanders Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis who were assassinated by the terrorist army of the US in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad nearly two weeks ago.