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ISIS suspect arrested over planned attack on Erbil: security council
[Rudaw] A suspected member of the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) has been arrested by security forces in Erbil after planning to carry out an attack against the counterterrorism headquarters in the city, according to a statement from the Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC). Sabhan Abdulsalam, 51, from Nineveh province, was planning an attack on the counterterrorism directorate's building - which is affiliated to the KRSC - in Erbil as directed by ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, the statement said. The council also released video footage of an alleged confession from the suspect. It is not clear when he was arrested. "I joined Islamic State’s Nineveh vilayet [ISIS term for province] in 2014. I was employed at the development and industry board as well as in the earth-shattering kabooms section. I was working in the Islamic State ranks until djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... was liberated. Then, I moved to Kirkuk and stayed there for a while. Later, I came to Erbil," said Abdulsalam in the video released by the KRSC. He said he then called his brother in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... "to rejoin the Islamic State," before being called by someone asking for footage of the headquarters "in order to free the prisoners under the order of the Caliph." He sent the footage and was awaiting money and explosives when he was arrested, he added. The KRSC also released the voice recording of a person they claimed to be ISIS spokesperson Hamza al-Qaraishi, purportedly asking ISIS fighters to free the group’s prisoners in Iraq and Syria. Related: Erbil: 2021-07-04 Iraqi counter-terror forces arrest ISIS members in coordination with Sulaimani Asayish Erbil: 2021-07-03 Bomb explosion kills 1, injures 6 near Tuz Khurmatu Erbil: 2021-07-01 Family, friends curse US at funeral for PMF fighter killed in airstrike Related: Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi: 2020-05-21 Iraq security forces arrest the new ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi: 2019-11-01 Iraq ready to bring ISIS members once active on its soil to justice: FM Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi: 2019-10-31 The Emir is dead! Long live the new Emir! Posted by: trailing wife 2021-07-06 |
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