The oldest members of the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades, authorities released on bail after their arrest for days, burned the flags of America and Israel and trampled pictures of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, while reactions continued to follow on social media sites about the speed of resolving this issue while the cases of thousands of detainees were not resolved in Prisons despite their innocence.
Local media close to the Popular Mobilization in Iraq published photos of the released Hezbollah operatives, showing people in the crowd's military uniform standing on pictures of al-Kazemi, while other images showing military elements setting fire to the Israeli flag and carrying the Iraqi flag.
Hezbollah Brigades celebrate the burning of the Israeli flag after their release by the Popular Mobilization Judge for lack of evidence 🥺💚 # the crowd _ oxygen_ Iraq pic.twitter.com/COJvzwQc1A
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An Iraqi military source told Reuters that all 14 detainees had been released due to lack of evidence that they had missiles or launchers, and the Asaib Ahl al-Haq movement confirmed this, and said, through his political office spokesman, Mahmoud al-Rubaie, on his Twitter account, that “all of the detainees are from the 45th Brigade According to the Popular Mobilization, they were released because malicious allegations against them were proven false, according to legal and judicial procedures.
For his part, the military spokesman for the Hezbollah Brigades Ja`far al-Husayni confirmed that the 14 fighters were released "because the evidence was not proven" by the crowd judge, saying that this is evidence that "the charge is malicious."
Al-Husseini added that "the next step is to file a case against the Prime Minister (Mustafa Al-Kazemi) to demonstrate that the rule of law must prevail, not the state of personal whims."
This faction had accused Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi for months in connection with the assassination of Washington of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy head of the PMF.
The leaders of the popular crowd considered that the release of the detainees was proof of the issuance of American orders to the government to carry out the arrest operation, while a number of the released detainees said that they believed that the security force that arrested them at dawn on Friday was accompanied by an American force, and some of the released individuals confirmed that the security force had found during the raid On missiles, weapons, and military hardware, since the site that was raided was a military site.
And the Iraqi army's anti-terror forces arrested - last Friday dawn - a number of members of the "Hezbollah" brigades that are part of the Popular Mobilization Organization during a raid in its headquarters west of Baghdad, and the Katyusha missile platform, which the authorities said was used to bomb a US base in the vicinity of Baghdad Airport, was confiscated. International buildings and government sites.
After hours of arrest, members of the Hezbollah Brigades stormed the headquarters of the anti-terrorist agency in the Green Zone in the center of the capital, Baghdad, where the government headquarters and a number of foreign embassies are located, including the American embassy.
It was the most daring raid in years of Iraqi security forces against a powerful armed faction backed by Tehran, which targeted the Hezbollah Brigades, which US officials accuse of firing missiles, at bases hosting American forces and other facilities in Iraq.
Since October 2019, more than 33 missiles have targeted Iraqi facilities hosting diplomats or foreign soldiers, as well as the US embassy in Baghdad, and have recorded 6 attacks in the past two weeks alone.