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Great new @HamdiAMalik piece here in @WashInstitute #MilitiaSpotlight on 3 new facade brands being readied for use by militias in Iraq. What does this herald? A real escalation of security threat or fake resistance & whitewashing of other militia leaders? washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
None of the three new facades - Kataib al-Sabereen, Kataib Karbala and Kataib Saifollah - has yet claimed an attack, nor do they have any obvious specialization (such as a geographic focus or method of attack, such as anti-air operations) washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
All three new facades critique Mohammed Shia al-Sudani's failure to secure a timeline for U.S. military withdrawal. The main Coordination Framework groups - Badr, AAH, KH - have refrained from bashing the US presence, even on Quds Day. What gives? washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
See the new #MilitiaSpotlight @WashInstitute piece by @HamdiAMalik and myself on how Iran-backed militias immediately justified the killing of a U.S. citizen in Baghdad yesterday. Zero hesitation, zero regard for the truth washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
The Iran backed militias are feeling hugely confident under this new Iraqi govt, and it shows in how unrestrained is their glee that a US citizen can be killed with no consequences - and that the attack can be turned into a non-sequiter attack on USAID, who are uninvolved.
The Iran backed militias that undergird the Sudani government did not hesitate for a second to justify the killing of an unarmed teacher on the grounds that he may have been a spy. This coincides with an immediate snap back of militia presence at key Baghdad intersections. 
