The Department of Justice indicted 32-year-old Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al Saadi for directing nearly 20 attacks and plots against American and Jewish targets across Europe and the United States.This is not abstract terrorism. Kata’ib Hizballah, the Iranian proxy he commanded in Iraq, has the blood of hundreds of American service members on its hands.From the roadside bombs and sniper attacks that slaughtered U.S. troops during the Iraq War to the January 2024 drone strike in Jordan that killed three American soldiers and wounded more than 40 others, this group has spent two decades murdering Americans with direct Iranian backing and funding.
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Even more chilling, al Saadi pledged to assassinate Ivanka Trump. He possessed detailed blueprints of her Florida home and posted threats on X, declaring that neither her palaces nor the Secret Service would protect her. This was revenge for the 2020 drone strike that killed his mentor, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Phone evidence recovered from al Saadi shows direct coordination with Guard leaders and photographs of him with Soleimani himself.
But al Saadi is no longer operating from abroad. Arrested in Turkey and transferred to U.S. custody, he now faces justice in an American courtroom. One of Iran’s most dangerous terrorists sits in a U.S. cell, yet the group that spawned him still rots inside Iraq’s government and security forces.
