Hussein Falah Al-Lami
Born: 20 June 1969;
Place of Birth: Baghdad, Iraq;
Gender: Male;
Nationality: Iraq;
Address: Iraq;
Known also as: Husayn Falih ‘Aziz al-Lami; Abu Zainab Al-Lami; Hussein Faleh Aziz.
Activities:
Al-Lami is head of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Central Security Directorate (CSD) and a member of the designated terrorist group Kataib Hezbollah.
Al-Lami was tasked by other senior militia commanders with suppressing the October 2019 protests in Iraq.
He was part of a committee of IRGC-QF proxies that approved the use of lethal violence against protesters for the purpose of public intimidation.
Al-Lami was responsible for ordering the assassinations and suppression of protesters in Baghdad in October 2019.
He directed militia fighters who shot protesters in early October 2019, a time when dozens of protesters were killed.