INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
2023-02-16T11:10:33.000000 Z Share fontEnable Reading ModeA-AA+Shafaq News/ Australias department of foreign affairs has actually been
required to discuss why its ambassador to Iraq met a US-designated international terrorist last month, ABC said on Thursday.The
controversy emerged after photos on social media showed ambassador Paula Ganley in a conference with political and paramilitary leader, Qais
al-Khazali, in January.Al-Khazali was listed as a specially designated global terrorist in 2020 by the United States, and his celebration
Aasib Ahl al-Haq (AAH) a foreign terrorist organisation
Then-secretary of state Mike Pompeo said al-Khazali and AAH were violent proxies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who used violence and
fear to even more the Iranian programs efforts to undermine Iraqi sovereignty
Australias foreign affairs department stated the party and its leader were not noted as terrorists here, but that they understood the
Hes the head of a political celebration in Iraq, that political party becomes part of the governing coalition of the Iraqi government, his
party has a minister in the present Iraqi federal government, department official Marc Innes-Brown told a senate estimates hearing
So the ambassador as part of her continuous work to be in touch with different political stars, political party leaders in the country to be
across political developments has fulfilled this individual
Senator Claire Chandler questioned the purpose of the conference
The reality is in Iraq, a nation thats had decades of dispute, there are a variety of individuals that have various backgrounds, and now a
few of them remain in the political mainstream, Innes-Brown stated, [al-Khazali and AAH] certainly have strong connections to Iran, theres
The United States State Department say AAH, led by al-Khazali and his brother Laith, was accountable for more than 6,000 attacks against
United States and Coalition forces since 2006, including the downing of a British helicopter and an attack that resulted in the capture and
murder of 5 American soldiers.The US has likewise blame al-Khazali and others for an attack on its embassy in Baghdad on New Years Eve
2019.Al-Khazali was caught by British SAS forces in 2007 but launched in 2010 in exchange for British nationwide Peter Moore, who had been
