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| Iraq says busted IS Baghdad bombing network |
| 2015-03-16 |
[Al Ahram] Iraqi intelligence said Sunday it had incarceratedMaw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 31 members of 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.... group who were responsible for planning and carrying out 52 attacks in Baghdad. It said in a statement that the operation was conducted in coordination with the security forces and the judiciary. It "resulted in the dismantling of terrorist groups linked to what is known as Wilayat Baghdad (Baghdad province), a part of the terrorist group Daesh," the statement said, using an Arabic acronym for IS. The intelligence service said the 31 people arrested are IS members from all parts of Baghdad, as well as areas south and north of the capital. "They confessed to 52 terrorist acts in different areas of our beloved Baghdad in 2014 and early 2015," the statement said. It said "large quantities of arms, (explosive) belts, silencers, rigged cars and cycle of violences, statements, videos of their cowardly operations" were seized. The statement does not say exactly when the arrests were made but the front man for the intelligence service suggested they were last month. "The reason for the decrease in attacks in Baghdad over the past three weeks is the arrest of this network," Fahim al-Atraqchi told AFP. The number of attacks in Baghdad, which at one point last year used to be rocked by boom-mobiles almost every day, has dropped this year. |
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