Iraq: 5 attacks against US military convoys in one day
20 May, 2022 07:58
USA lawmakers ask Biden administration if Saudi Prince Khalid bin Salman is subject to Khashoggi Ban. Two USA’s lawmakers sent a letter to the Biden administration on Wednesday seeking an explanation as to why Saudi Deputy Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman was granted a US visa, and asking whether or not he is on a list of Saudi citizens barred from entering the USA over the 2018 killing of Middle East Eye columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The letter, sent by congressmen Tom Malinowski and Brian Fitzpatrick, comes as Prince Khalid, the younger brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), arrives in Washington this week for a series of meetings with USA’s officials. “According to public reports, Prince Khalid met with a range of senior US government officials, seemingly undermining the Administration’s February 2021 statements indicating that you would seek to recalibrate the US-Saudi relationship by engaging your official counterparts,” the letter said. “We seek to understand the rationale for Prince Khalid’s multiple visits and whether the Department of State reviewed allegations regarding his alleged role in targeting Saudi dissidents, consistent with the Administration’s Khashoggi Visa Ban.” Prince Khalid, who also visited Washington last July, is the highest-profile Saudi official to visit the USA’s capital since the Biden administration released an intelligence report concluding that MBS was responsible for the murder of Khashoggi.
US military support convoys were hit by a roadside bomb for the fifth time in Iraq on Thursday.
The attacks began on Thursday morning in Dhi Qar province with an explosion in on the way of a US logistics convoy, then two US military logistics convoys were attacked in Samawah, al-Diwaniyah province, and the latest attacks in Babil province of Iraq occurred with two more explosions against the US convoys.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the allegations.
No information is available on the possible casualties or damage of these attacks.
The Iraqi people and resistance groups have always stressed the need to expel the United States from Iraq, especially after the US recent attack on al-Hashdal al-Shaabi forces on the Iraqi-Syrian border, which resulted in the martyrdom of four members of the organization.
On 5 Jan 2020, Iraq’s parliament passed a resolution calling on the government to expel foreign troops from the country.
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