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Iraq

Kurdish counter-terror forces capture ISIS sleeper cell in Erbil: Coalition

2020-08-22

They’re getting productively busy over there. Congratulations, guys!

[Rudaw] Kurdish counter-terror forces captured an 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) sleeper cell in Erbil on Thursday, the global Coalition tweeted on Friday.

"Acting on a warrant, on Aug. 20, elite Kurdish Counter-Terrorism Director troops captured ISIS sleeper cell gunnies in Erbil," tweeted Coalition spokesperson Col. Myles B. Caggins.

One "ISIS terrorist" was captured in the raid, Caggins explained to Rudaw TV on Friday night. "And this terrorist wasn't a normal ISIS terrorist... This man was responsible for coordinating the movement of ISIS terrorists' money and weapons through the Kurdistan Region."

"I do not want to get into too many details because we are still using the intelligence to develop additional raids. But this terrorist was caught around the city of Erbil and it shows you that some ISIS will try to hide in an urban area to plan and facilitate terrorism because they think they are safe," said Caggins.

The Coalition’s special operations worked with the Kurdish forces in the raid.

"The sleeper cell that was caught in Erbil was talking to other ISIS managers — ISIS mid-level leaders — and arranging for fighters to move through Kurdistan into other regions in Iraq and Syria. This involves moving money, talking to safe houses and giving those fighters instructions," Caggins detailed.

He called the operation a "great success," but said the name of the man arrested would not be released as that is sensitive information.

The Kurdish forces have not immediately commented on the operation.

This is the second such operation reported within the Kurdistan Region this month. Sulaimani province's security forces (Asayesh) arrested six ISIS suspects in two raids in and around the town of Chamchammal on August 4 and 5.

Iraqi counter-terror forces (ICTS) also busted an ISIS sleeper cell in northern Saladin province, arresting eight people "who were planning to attack military units stationed in Sharqat district," the force tweeted.

Two other ISIS suspects were detained by ICTS forces south of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
. "This brings the number of the arrested gunnies to ten in the last 24 hours," read the tweet.

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