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Kurdish security forces arrest five ISIS suspects north Iraq
[ARA] Iraqi Kurdistan’s Asayish security forces in Erbil said they have enjugged
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
five Kurdish individuals who wanted to join the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) group.

"As part of Erbil Asayish’s ongoing efforts, today a group of 5 suspects affiliated with ISIS bandidos murderous Moslems was arrested," the Kurdistan Region’s Security Council (KRSC) said on Sunday.

"The individuals planned to joint ISIS in Hawija, South West of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
" the KRSC said.

Hawar Yusuf Abdul-Karim, Halmat Omar Osman Ahmed, Hani Ibrahim Rashid Faraj, Farhang Abas Abdul-Rahman Rashid and Abdulla Baqi Abdulla Rashid have been arrested over "terrorism" charges.

The arrest shows that there are still some Kurds that want to join the ranks of ISIS, although most Kurdish members of ISIS were killed in battle or coalition air strikes.

The Kurds have provided intelligence to the US-led coalition which led to targeted Arclight airstrikes taking out local senior ISIS leaders such as Mullah Shwan in September 2015 near Hawija and Falah al-Kurdi in October 2015.

Hawija is part of the Kirkuk province of Iraq, 30 miles west of Kirkuk city and north of Baghdad. The town has a population of about 100,000 inhabitants and has been under ISIS control since 2014. Some Kurds, such as Mulah Shwan and Falah al-Kurdi, took leading positions in Hawija before they were killed by coalition air strikes.

Noteworthy, ISIS used Hawija to plan attacks on the Kurdistan Region.

While Kirkuk city and its environs are controlled by the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Asayish, the Hawija town outside of Kirkuk is still under ISIS control since 2014. Operations to take Hawija were delayed after the Iraqi government decided to first destroy the Islamic State in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
‐which is ISIS de facto capital in Iraq.


Posted by: Fred 2017-02-12
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