The father of an Iraqi youth killed in Syria has filed a legal complaint in Baghdad against Iraq’s Hizbullah, calling for those recruiting young men to fight in Syria’s war to be held to account, according to USCENTCOM sponsored website.
Hizbullah exploited 23-year-old Qusay Saadoun Wali al-Kinany, his father said, by using money to entice him to fight in Syria, Central Asia Online reported.
My son Qusay’s naiveté and our wretched financial condition were undoubtedly behind his going to fight in Syria,” he said.
“I did not expect he would go to Syria, because he told me he was going on a trip to Iran, but a week later I discovered when he contacted me that he was in the Sayyida Zainab area of Damascus, where he had travelled two days after arriving in Iran,” he said.
“He refused to return, and gave as a pretext the protection of the Sayyida Zainab shrine and an excellent salary, promising he would be well,” his father said. “But only six days later, my son Qusay was killed, along with a friend of his who had travelled with him on that doomed trip.”
At least 250 Iraqi youth – some as young as 18 – have been killed in Syria since the beginning of the year.
Photo: Banners posted by Iranian regime-backed groups in Iraq announce the deaths of Iraqi killed in Syria fighting for Bashar Al-Assad.
