...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) earlier this month in Erbil and handed him over to Baghdad, the Kurdistan Region’s counter-terrorism directorate said on Friday, denying reports he had been captured by Iraqi intelligence.
Several Iraqi media outlets reported Thursday that Iraqi intelligence had followed a suspected member of ISIS from Fallujah to Hit in Anbar, and on to Nineveh, before arresting him in Erbil.
The suspect was the "head of snipers" in the terror group, an "authorized source" told al-Sumaria news agency.
Erbil’s counter-terror directorate confirmed the arrest on Friday but said it was made by its own forces, not Iraqi intelligence.
"Our directorate conducted an operation in Erbil city on February 9, 2021, and arrested a member of ISIS [ISIS] terrorist organization, Bashar Mustafa Hafez Adwan al-Awaisi. He has carried out several terrorist activities inside Baghdad city," read a statement from the Kurdistan Region Security Council’s General Directorate of Counter Terrorism.
"Because this terrorist had carried out terrorist activities inside Baghdad province and he was officially requested by Baghdad security forces to be handed over, we handed the terrorist over to Baghdad forces on February 24, 2021 as per the judge’s order," added the statement.
There has been no official statement from Iraqi security forces regarding the arrest.