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Iraq Monitorعين على العراقPrimary-source intelligence · updated 15:43 Baghdad
Militia violence30 Jul, 13:09 BAGHDAD

Nujaba and Badr blame US-Saudi strike; AAH omits attribution

Al-Nujaba TV and Al-Ghadeer TV published identical wording attributing PMF member Haider Mansour al-Shubaki's death to "American–Saudi bombing that targeted Popular Mobilization headquarters", while Al-Ahad TV carried the same funeral without naming any perpetrator

WHAT HAPPENED

Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official owned media) and Al-Ghadeer TV (Badr Organization — official owned media) posted the same text within two minutes this morning: Najaf buried "the martyr of duty Haider Mansour al-Shubaki, one of the heroes of the Popular Mobilization", a member of the armour-fighting directorate (مديرية مقاتلة الدروع), "after his martyrdom as a result of the American–Saudi bombing that targeted Popular Mobilization headquarters", amid wide official and popular attendance; imagery shows a coffin procession on Sheikh al-Tusi Street. Al-Ahad TV (AAH — official owned media) posted funeral footage in the same two minutes captioned only "moving moments from the funeral rites.. a child bids farewell to his martyred father" with the hashtag "#Al-Husayn_is_our_path", naming neither the dead man, the strike, nor any perpetrator. Neither the date nor the location of the alleged strike is stated in any of the three posts, and no independent reporting of such a strike appears in the material available for this window.

WHY IT MATTERS

A named PMF fatality attributed to a US–Saudi strike on PMF headquarters, published by two official faction outlets in identical words, is the ecosystem's own record of a combat loss it has not otherwise announced.

EVIDENCE · INTERCEPTED CHANNEL MESSAGE
View the original message (Arabic)🔴 النجف الاشرف تشيّع شهيد الواجب حيدر منصور الشبكي أحد أبطال الحشد الشعبي بعد استشهاده جراء القصف الأمريكي – السعودي الذي استهدف مقرات الحشد الشعبي، شيّعت محافظة النجف الأشرف، اليوم، شهيد الواجب حيدر منصور الشبكي، أحد منتسبي مديرية مقاتلة الدروع في الحشد الشعبي، وسط حضور رسمي وشعبي واسع.…
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