Sec. 2. Findings
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Congress finds the following: As-Saib Ahl al-Haq (referred to in this section as AAH ) is an Iraqi paramilitary group that was founded in 2006. Harakat Hizballah al-Nujaba (referred to in this section as Nujaba ) is an affiliated faction of AAH and the United States-designated foreign terrorist organization Kata’ib Hizballah, which was formed in 2013. AAH and Nujaba receive training, funding, and arms from the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force and are mentored by Lebanese Hizballah.
AAH leader, Qais Khazali, has pledged allegiance to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. AAH conducted numerous attacks against the United States and coalition forces in Iraq between its inception in 2006 and the United States withdrawal from Iraq in December 2011, including an attack on January 20, 2007 on the Karbala Provincial Headquarters, which resulted in the killing of Captain Brian S. Freeman, First Lieutenant Jacob N. Fritz, Specialist Jonathan B. Chism, Private First Class Shawn P.
Falter, and Private First Class Jonathon M. Millican. AAH and Nujaba deploy forces to Syria to fight on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime, including participating in the 2016 siege of Aleppo where the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights alleges pro-government Iraqi militia groups executed dozens of civilians. In 2015, Human Rights Watch alleged AAH participated in forced evictions, kidnappings, and extrajudicial killings of Sunni and Kurdish civilians in areas liberated from the Islamic State.
Nujaba is led by Akram al-Kabi, who— was designated by the Department of the Treasury under Executive Order 13438 for threatening the peace and stability of Iraq; according to the United States Government, participated in multiple mortar and rocket attacks on the International Zone, or Green Zone, in Baghdad in early 2008; and along with other Nujaba commanders, has claimed to follow orders from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and declared support for Lebanese Hizballah in March 2016.
In 2017, a Nujaba spokesman declared that Nujaba had formed a unit tasked to liberate the Golan Heights from Israeli control. Reports indicate that Nujaba is playing a key role in securing a land route between Iran and Lebanon to provide military aid to Lebanese Hezbollah.
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