Reality or fabrication? .. The story of targeting Muqtada Al-Sadr's house in Najaf

Firas al-Nasser - Najaf

News conflicting about the fact that a plane targeting a leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, was in the city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, at dawn on Saturday, amid reports that he is currently in Iran. Opinions differ as to the motives for this targeting. This comes at a time when sources excluded Al-Jazeera Net that the drone is coming from outside the borders or distant areas, as it is likely that it is homemade aiming to deliver a message and not an assassination attempt.

The beginning of the story, when the songwriter Saleh Muhammad al-Iraqi, who is close to the Shiite leader, revealed through the communication sites the incident of the attack on the al-Sadr house, explaining that the area of ​​al-Hanana, where the house is located, was bombed by a drone in response to orders issued to the blue hats belonging to the "Saeron" coalition to protect demonstrators in Al-Senak and Al-Khilani Square in Baghdad while they were attacked last Friday.

Details of the accident
On his part, Najaf Governor Louay Al-Yasiri told Al-Jazeera Net on the sidelines of his meeting with the head of the Parliamentary Defense Security Committee, MP Mohammad Reza Al-Haidari, "The news of the attack, we arrived at exactly twenty-one minutes from Saturday afternoon, and immediately we went with the security leaders to the scene to see the effects of the attack, where we reported From protecting Al-Sadr's house, the attack was carried out with bombing from a drone. "

On a question about the type of plane, Al-Yasiri replied, "According to the information we have from the preliminary investigations, that it was homemade and was launched from the northern neighborhoods of Najaf."

Regarding the reasons for targeting Al-Sadr’s house, Al-Yasiri stated that the reason is clear: “There are those who are trying to drag the city into bad matters, but we found an understanding with the Al-Sadr office, and we assure the people of Najaf that the situation is stable and there is a battalion of air defense present in the province and has explicit orders to deal with foreign objects and that The old city and Shia reference offices are very secure. "

For his part, a security source in Najaf police told Al-Jazeera Net that the shell used was homemade and did not explode completely and its impact was limited.

He added that the Air Force information confirmed that any plane did not penetrate the airspace of Iraq, and that preliminary investigations showed that it was local and small and came from an uninhabited area, that is, often from the northern regions of Najaf where the vast desert and the ease of flying and its proximity to the area of ​​tenderness, as the energy carried by it does not exceed Twenty minutes.

Hidden targets
Al-Jazeera Net investigated the issue of targeting, where a source in Sadr’s office in Najaf revealed to Al-Jazeera Net that the targeting is a reality (as a result) of the positions of the Sadr movement leader regarding the events in Iraq or the region, which is not the first time. “Whenever there is a position for Sadr, we find a threat to it.”

He added that there are three scenarios for targeting and who is behind him, especially that the reason this time is the descent of blue hats owners to protect the demonstrators, the first of which is the corrupt who Sadr demanded to exclude them from the political process and expose and expose them after supporting the people's demonstrations.

He added that the second scenario is what he described as rude militias and who is behind them, while the third is an American plan to mix the cards in Iraq by targeting religious and national symbols. "But we confirm that this time the targeting came as a message as Sadr is currently in the Iranian city of Qom.

Political analyst Ali al-Amir says that the targeting message was clear as Sadr and his followers arrested the killers of the rebellious youth in the Al-Khilani and Al-Senk areas, and revealed who killed, intimidated and kidnapped the protesters.

He suggested that "militias supported by neighboring countries stand behind the attack, because the Sadr National Project is the cause of the threat message."

For his part, member of the Sadrist movement, Hassan Al-Husseini, said that targeting the Al-Sadr house was supported by an American-backed Israeli plan to mix the cards in Iraq.

As for the political analyst Ahmed Al-Aboudi, he said in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net that Al-Sadr is in Iran "and I do not see a reason to target an empty house," noting that Najaf did not witness attacks by drone aircraft.

"Al-Sadr tried to ride the wave of demonstrations from the first day despite the presence of his followers in the government and has the largest shares in it from executive positions, so is there something undeclared that we do not know about? But we rule out the existence of such targeting, and that investigations will reveal this."