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farscott - I'm sure the circumstances were deliberate. The Iraqi militia leader meets
the Quds Force commander to whom he is beholden and both get killed in a very public way, with the US claiming responsibility almost immediately. The QF has been training and funding Iraqi Shia militia units for over a decade with almost no blowback from the US, even when they openly targeted US and coalition forces. Now those militias see there's a price for working for Iran.
This wasn't an attack against Iraqi leaders. It was an attack against
Iranian-controlled militia leaders. I'm pretty sure there's no confusion over there about why this happened.