Iraq PM announces arrests for murder of prominent analyst Hashemi
Al Jazeera
Friday’s announcement marks the first reported arrests made over a killing that shocked the country.
Suspects in the murder of Iraq’s prominent academic and government adviser Hisham al-Hashemi have been arrested, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi said on Friday. Al-Hashemi, a specialist on armed-group networks with close contacts among top Iraqi decision-makers, was shot dead outside his Baghdad home in early July last year by gunmen on motorcycles. Iraqi state TV broadcast brief clips of an apparent confession of one suspect, 36-year-old police lieutenant Ahmed al-Kenani. Wearing a brown jumpsuit, al-Kenani confessed to shooting al-Hashemi dead using a pistol.
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