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Iraq
Arrest ordered for Iraqi police commander for terror-related accusations
2018-04-18
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) An arrest warrant has been issued for a runaway Iraqi police commander and several other lower-ranking personnel after he was accused of perpetrating several terror incidents in Kirkuk province, security sources were quoted saying.

Baghdad Today quoted the source saying that Cap. Loai Mohammed Reda, commander of Kirkuk’s "SWAT" forces and 20 of his subordinates.

"The personnel escaped to an unknown destination after armed robbers, locked away
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
yesterday, confessed that liquidations, carjackings and detonations of booby-traps had been carried out by his orders," the source told the website.

The source noted that the latest car blast in the province occurred on Monday.

Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
a province of mixed Arab and Kurdish ethnicities, has witnessed tensional security conditions over the past months since Iraqi forces took over the province from Kurdish Peshmerga forces in response to Kurdistan’s September vote for independence. 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
snuffies have also grabbed credit for several killings of security personnel after the Iraqi government declared victory over the group and the end of its territorial influence late last year.

The Iraqi government had repeatedly rebuffed accusations against its troops of committing ethnically-driven human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
breaches throughout the military campaign to retake areas occupied by IS.
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