BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 20 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, ordered a probe into the attack by an unmanned aircraft on a paramilitary Hashd Shaabi camp, in Iraq’s central province of Salahudin.
Mahdi, also the commander-in-chief of Iraqi forces, issued a directive “to form a fact-finding committee, composed of the Joint Operations Command (JOC), representatives of the Air Force Command, Air Defence Command and the Hashd Shaabi, to show what really happened at the Martyrs’ Camp.”
Earlier, the JOC said the Hashd Shaabi camp was bombed twice in the early morning, by an unknown drone.
The attack resulted in the wounding of three Iraqi militiamen and two Iranian advisers, in the Hashd Shaabi brigade, a local security source said.
The two Iranian advisers died of their wounds, after being transferred to hospital, the source said later.
All the brigade members are from the Shiite Turkoman minority, and the brigade itself is affiliated with the Iranian-backed Badr Organisation, headed by the Shiite leader, Hadi al-Ameri, the source added.
Previously known as the Badr Brigades, the Badr Organisation was first setup during the eight-year Iraqi-Iranian war in the 1980’s and has maintained long-time ties with Iran.– NNN-NINA
