Iran Press/ Iran news: Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Second-in-Commander, Jamal Ja'far Muhammad Ali Al Ibrahim, better known as Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, was born in 1953 in Basra from an Iraqi father and an Iranian mother.
In 1970, Abu Mahdi joined Iraq's Hizb ad-Da'wa al-Islamiya. In 2001, he took command of the Badr Corps.
On the Badr Corps, he says: "The most important commanders of Hashd al-Sha'abi are from the Badr Corps. At that time, we launched a joint organization and contacted revolutionary groups inside Iraq; we carried out numerous operations against Saddam's Ba'athist regime in various parts of Iraq."
With plenty of combat experience, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis formed the Kata'ib Hezbollah of Iraq in 2007, the Kata'ib structure of Hezbollah is modeled on the Lebanese Hezbollah structure and the main pillar of Hashd al-Shaabi. The United States had blacklisted Abu Mahdi and this group in 2009.
With the rapid emergence of ISIS terrorists in the region, and their heinous crimes in Syria and Iraq, the Hashd al-Sha'abi organization was formed, modeled on Iran's Basij organization, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandes was one of its key commanders.
Hashd al-Sha'abi is a popular jihadist and nationalist force that has been instrumental in driving ISIS out of Iraqi cities, including Amerli, Jurf al-Sakhar, Erbil and Mosul.
Martyred Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and martyred Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, two old fighters, have fought side-by-side for years on the battlefields of the Resistance Front, ranging from Sacred Defense against Saddam's Ba'athist regime to cleansing the occupied territories in Iraq and Syria from ISIS Takfiri terrorists. But Abu Mahdi always referred to himself as "a soldier of Haj Qassem, and is proud of this."
Abu Mahdi was assassinated by American terrorists on Friday, January 3, 2020, along with his longtime friend, Lt. Gen Haj Qassem Soleimani.
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