Former Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi acknowledged that some parties within the Framework urged him to kill followers of Muqtada al-Sadr during their entry into the Green Zone during the protests of 2016, confirming that these parties requested him to use weapons and aircraft to harvest their souls. In a televised interview on the program "Confrontation," al-Abadi commented on the incursion into the Green Zone by the Sadrist movement, stating, "Some parties within the Framework asked me to use weapons and aircraft to harvest the souls of the people (the protesters)." He affirmed that "the protesters stormed my office at that time, which the parties considered a breach of sovereignty, but I did not use force against them as they are citizens."
Al-Abadi continued: "I informed them about the breach of sovereignty, that the protesters made a mistake by entering the Prime Minister's office, but that mistake does not constitute a breach of sovereignty," questioning, "Does the forced entry of citizens into parliament permit us to kill the protesters?" He noted that "the entry of the Sadrists into the Green Zone was a mistake on Sadr's part, and I disagreed with him about the issue and requested him to leave the Green Zone after 24 hours."
#### Who is al-Abadi?
Haider al-Abadi is a prominent Iraqi politician and public figure, born on April 12, 1952, in Baghdad, Iraq. He studied civil engineering at the University of Baghdad and obtained a master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Al-Abadi held several positions in the Iraqi government, most notably serving as Prime Minister from 2014 to 2018, during a critical period marked by the rise of the Islamic State and other security and economic crises. He is considered a moderate political figure and sought to promote national unity and tackle the security and economic challenges facing Iraq during his tenure.
