NAJAF (Iraq), Feb 23 — A minibus stopped outside the world’s largest cemetery in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf. Five women got out, telephone cameras filming the scene, and dashed excitedly towards a grave. Clad in black, they joined wailing women and men beating their chests in...
Visitors mourn at the grave of Iraqi paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, at the Wadi al-Salam cemetery in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf, February 19, 2020. — AFP pic
It has become a stop for the thousands of Shiite pilgrims who pass through Najaf each day to visit the tomb of Imam Ali, son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed. Iraq’s armed factions, the most hardline of which are financed, trained and armed by Iran, have vowed to avenge Muhandis’s death.But almost two months after the assassination, there has yet to be a heavy response, apart from Iranian missile strikes on January 8.
“Every time we come to visit Imam Ali, we will make a stop to see the hero and martyr Muhandis,” she said.From the early hours of the day until after sunset, the entrance to the cemetery is bustling with minibusses ferrying visitors. Muhandis, accused of involvement in deadly 1983 attacks against the French and US embassies in Kuwait, oversaw the Hashed and its integration into the state.
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