Iraq arrests killer of respected analyst
Hisham al-Hashimi was gunned down outside his Baghdad apartment in July 2020.
Iraq's prime minister on Friday announced police had arrested the man who last year shot dead prominent analyst and government adviser, Hisham al-Hashimi.
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announed on Iraqi television Friday that Hashimi’s killer had been arrested. Iraqi media reported that four men involved in the murder have been arrested, and that an employee of Iraq’s Interior Ministry, Ahmed Hamdawi al-Kinani, had confessed to the killing.
Al-Iraqiyya TV showed what it said was footage of the suspected killer confessing to the murder. A man identifying himself as Ahmed Hamdawi al-Kinani, a first lieutenant in the ministry, said he was behind the killing.
Kinani claimed he had been assigned to the task, and that the group involved traveled from the Bo'aitga area to Baghdad to carry out the killing. Bo'aitga is where Kataib Hezbollah's headquarters is located and it's fully under the group's control.
