... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
accused of spying on Iraqi security forces and Kurdish Peshmerga for 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) in the disputed province, according to a statement from the Iraqi interior ministry on Thursday.
The unnamed "terrorist" was wanted by security forces for "his affiliation to ISIS snuffies and cooperation with them by transmitting information," stated the ministry, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
"During his initial investigation, he admitted that he provided information on the movements and locations of the security forces and Peshmerga forces [to ISIS] in exchange for money," added the statement.
Rudaw English reached out to several Peshmerga commanders for comment, but they were not available.