The US government has transferred a senior Hezbollah leader who help set up the Shia terror groups in Iraq and was involved in the murder of five US soldiers in 2007 over to Iraqi custody.
US Transfers Dangerous Hezbollah Leader Involved In Murder Of 5 US Soldiers To Iraqi Custody -- Long War Journal
Musa Ali Daqduq, the senior Hezbollah commander who was tasked by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to establish Shia terror groups into a Hezbollah-like entity, was transferred to Iraqi custody today, White House National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Reuters. Daqduq was the last prisoner in Iraq who was in US custody. Vietor told Reuters that Iraq assured the US that it would prosecute Daqduq.
US officials fear that the Iraqi government will be pressured by Iran and Shia political parties to release Daqduq.
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