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Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Head of Pro-Iranian Kataib Hezbollah, Targeted by U.S.
(Ha'aretz) Yossi Melman - Kataib Hezbollah is one of the most important pro-Iranian Shi'ite militias operating in Iraq. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards' al-Quds Force arms, trains, and directs the militia's soldiers, whose strength has grown to 25,000 in recent years. The Iraqi militia was led by Jamal Jaafar Ibrahimi, 65, also known as Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Western intelligence attributes to him direct involvement in the terror attacks against the U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait in 1983, two months after the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings that killed 241 U.S. and 58 French soldiers. On Tuesday, al-Muhandis' militia led the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.