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Iraqi court sentences first foreign woman affiliated with ISIS to death
[RUDAW.NET] A German woman convicted for her affiliation with ISIS has been sentenced to death by an Iraqi court, said the spokesperson for Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council on Monday, the first time a foreign woman has been sentenced to death in Iraq."The Central Criminal Court looked into the case of a terror suspect who holds German citizenship and sentenced her to death based on article four of Iraq’s anti-terrorism laws," read a statement by Abdul Sattar al- Bayraktar, front man for Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council on their official website. The German citizen, who is of Moroccan origin, "confessed during the investigations that she travelled from Germany to Syria and then to Iraq because she had faith in 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... ," he stated, adding that she also brought two of her daughters with her and wedded them to other ISIS members. "The suspect provided logistical support and help to the terror group in their crimes and was convicted in being complicit in attacking Iraqi security and military forces," Bayraktar said. The front man refused to release the woman’s name. Although she is the first woman to be convicted of ISIS-related crimes and sentenced to death, she is actually the second foreign national to be sentenced to death in Iraq for affiliation with ISIS. Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council announced in September of last year that a criminal court in Baghdad sentenced a Russian man to death for being a member of ISIS. The ISIS member from Russia confessed "to carrying out several terrorist operations against the security services since 2015," Bayraktar said in a statement on September 12. In accordance to Article four of Iraq’s anti-terrorism law, he was sentenced to death by hanging, Bayraktar added. The US intelligence community estimates that some 40,000 imported muscle have joined ISIS in Iraq and Syria since the holy warrior organization first declared its caliphate in 2014 in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . Posted by: Fred 2018-01-22 |
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