[2] He played an instrumental role in establishing Iraq’s Iran-backed Shia militias following the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003.

[8] In November 2011 Reuters reported that the US was negotiating with the Iraqi government to hold Daqduq in US custody after the US pulled out of Iraq in December 2011.

[11] Following his release, the US added Daqduq to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) pursuant to Executive Order 13224.

[12] On 13 March 2019, Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus accused Daqduq of having come back to Lebanon and then Syria, and founded a Hezbollah-operated network of "a few" Syrian operatives manning outposts in the Golan Heights border village of Hader, Syria and collecting intelligence against Israeli targets.

[15] Daqduq's 2007 raid on US troops in Karbala and subsequent interrogation by CIA and Mossad agents was dramatized in the 2023 Showtime series Ghosts of Beirut.