An Iraqi al-Hashd al-Shabi commander, referring to a committee visit by Baghdad to the site of yesterday’s US attack in western Anbar, said the United States targeted al-Hashd al-Shabi in the area with a bomb weighing more than a ton.
Ahmed al-Maksousi, commander of Iraq’s 14th Al-Hashd al-Shabi brigade, whose headquarters were targeted in a US-led offensive in western Anbar province yesterday morning, announced that the Iraqi government had sent a committee to US-targeted bases.
According to the Telegram channel “Al-Ma’loumeh”, he said: The government sent a committee to investigate the US invasion of western Anbar province. The targeted al-Hashd al-Shabi forces were stationed inside the Iraqi border, 13 kilometers from the border with Syria. These forces had no arsenal of weapons or clashes with foreign forces.
Al-Maksusi explained: The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a U.S. military base, killing at least 250 people and wounding more than 250 others.
The al-Hashd al-Shabi commander called on the United Nations and human rights organizations to condemn the US crime, which Washington has confessed to.
The Iraqi Al-Hashd al-Shabi organization said in a statement yesterday about the details of the attack: “At 2 a.m. today (Monday, June 28), US warplanes targeted three locations of al-Hashd al-Shabi (14th and 46th Brigades), 13 kilometers inside the Iraqi border, in al-Qaim city in western Anbar province.”
According to the statement, “The attack resulted in the martyrdom of four people who were carrying out their normal duty of preventing the infiltration of ISIS elements from Syria into Iraq. These forces were operating under the command of the Iraqi Joint Operations and were not involved in any activities against the presence of foreign forces in Iraq. “As the Al-Hashd al-Shabi organization has repeatedly emphasized.”
Yesterday morning, news sources in Iraq and Syria reported an unidentified airstrike on positions in the Bokmal area on the Syrian-Iraqi border, and minutes later it became clear that the attack was on a support and logistics base of the 14th Iraqi Al-Hashd al-Shabi Brigade.
Minutes later, the Pentagon issued a statement acknowledging responsibility for the attack, saying, “US fighter jets carried out precision strikes on areas in Bokmal on the Syrian border on Sunday night at the behest of President Joe Biden.” “Iraq has done it.”