Hisham al-Hashimi

Al-Hashimi was born in 1973 in Baghdad. He became a historian[7] and researcher[8] in security[9] and strategic affairs.[10][11][12] He was a follower of the Iraqi Islamic groups since 1997.[13] He worked in the field of modern and "jurisprudential" manuscripts, although his academic achievement was Bachelor of Economics and Administration - Statistics Department. He held a scientific degree in Hadith, and had an interest in the history of Al-Dhahabi.[14] He was arrested and sentenced to prison by Saddam Hussein's regime, due to his affiliation with Salafi jihadism, then he was released from prison in 2002.[15] After 2003, he went to work in the press, began writing reports and documents with foreign newspapers and channels, and began writing a blog about the map of armed groups in Iraq.[16][17][18][19][20] On 1 July 2020, he published a report titled "The internal dispute within the Popular Mobilization Forces", his last work before his assassination.[21]

On 6 July 2020, al-Hashimi was shot outside his home in Zayouna, Baghdad by two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle.[22][23] He died in the nearby Ibn Al-Nafees hospital shortly after arrival.[24] In July 2020, a BBC investigation said Kata'ib Hezbollah was implicated in al-Hashimi's death.[25]

He was buried at Wadi-us-Salaam, Al-Najaf, Iraq.[26]

Al-Hashimi's death triggered a uproar in Iraq and among the larger international community,[27][28][29] leading to allegations accusing paramilitary groups such as Kata'ib Hezbollah and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,[1] while the official investigation has not accused any group, and no group claimed responsibility. However, Al-Hashimi had reportedly received direct death and kidnapping threats from members and commanders within Kata'ib Hezbollah and the Popular Mobilization Forces.[30][31]

In July 2021, four men were arrested including Ahmed Hamdawi Owayid Kinani who confessed that he assassinated al-Hashimi with a licensed gun, as he had previously worked in the Ministry of Interior.[32] In May 2023, a court in Baghdad sentenced the aforementioned former police officer to death for the murder of al-Hashimi, a decision that could be appealed.[33][34]

• Alem Daesh (book)[35][36]
• (History of al-Qaeda in Iraq) book[37][38][39][40]
• (organization of the Islamic State from within) book
• More than 500 articles and research published in Iraqi and Arab newspapers and magazines about extremist groups.[41][42][43]

• Director of the National Security and Counterterrorism Program at the AKD Center for Strategic Studies and Research.
• Security Adviser to the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Baghdad Conference on Combating Terrorism.
• Lecturer in combating terrorism in security academies.
• Visiting Scholar at the Rivers Center for Strategic Studies.
• Member of the team of advisors of the Committee for the Implementation and Follow-up of National Reconciliation in the Office of the Prime Minister of Iraq.
• Security Adviser to the Iraqi Journalistic Freedoms Observatory.

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• An Interview with Hisham al-Hashimi on Alhurra