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Terror organization: PMF (Popular Mobilization Forces), Kata’ib Hezbollah.

Status: Senior leader and one of the deputies at the PMF (Popular Mobilization Forces), also he has the rank of Major General in the Iraqi army.

Role: Security chief of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). Aziz is also a former member of Iran-backed Shiite militia Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH), though he reportedly denies any formal ties to Iran or its militias. Aziz is director of the PMF’s Central Security Directorate, which maintains its own intelligence and military forces. The unit acts as an internal affairs branch and is authorized to discipline PMF leaders. Some analysts postulated that Lami was being groomed to eventually replace PMF deputy commander Jamal Jaafar Ibrahimi, a.k.a. Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, who also led KH.

Al-Lami is an Iran-backed militia leader, tasked by other senior militia commanders with suppressing the late 2019 protests in Iraq. Al-Lami was part of a committee of IRGC-QF proxies that approved the use of lethal violence against protesters for the purpose of public intimidation. In late 2019, al-Lami was responsible for ordering the assassinations and suppression of protesters in Baghdad. Al-Lami directed militia fighters who shot protesters in early October 2019, a time when dozens of protesters were killed. Until Soleimani’s death, the two maintained very close ties with each other.

Location: Iraq.

Born: 20 June 1969;

Place of Birth: Baghdad, Iraq;

Gender: Male;

Nationality: Iraq;

Address: Iraq;

Also Known As: Abu Zainab al-Lami; Husayn Falih ‘Aziz al-Lami; Abu Zainab Al-Lami; Hussein Faleh Aziz; Hussein Falah Al-Lami; Abu Zainab al-Lami