[Dhaka Tribune] A list of 173 potential jacket wallahs Iraqi security forces discovered while battling 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....
holy warrior group (IS) in northern Iraq contains around 20 Iraqi minors.
US intelligence obtained the secret list, apparently created by the group to identify those who could reach Europe and carry out attacks there. Intelligence then passed the list to the global crime agency Interpol, which distributed it to European security services. Details of the list have begun to emerge.
IS has regularly used minors in its propaganda output, referring to them as "cubs of the caliphate." There is little information about the ages of the minors on the list.
A French source with links to the country’s security services said that there are a number of Frenchie-loving jihadists on the list. The disclosure is unsurprising, given that Europe’s deadliest attacks in the name of IS, in Gay Paree and Brussels, have been committed by French or Belgian nationals of North African heritage.
The spokesperson for the Gay Paree prosecutor’s office declined to confirm their presence on the list.
The German newspaper Die Welt reported Thursday that one person on the list is a 27-year-old German national from the city of Solingen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, who traveled to Egypt from Germany in 2012 before entering Syria via
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
to join IS with his wife and child.
Other countries with suspects on the list are Iraq, which has the most nationals on the list, as well as Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, Tajikistan, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Interpol supplied images of the suspects and the mosques they are believed to have frequented in their home countries.
An Interpol spokesperson told German news site Deutsche-Welle that once the agency receives such information, it decides "which other authorities it should be shared with at the national level. This may include border agencies, specialist counterterrorism units and customs, for example."