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| Iraq sentences “Belgian” Islamic State member to death | |
| 2018-05-23 | |
| Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi criminal court sentenced on Tuesday a Belgian member 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.... to death for involvement with the group and threatening attacks in Europe. Tarek Jadoun, aka Abu Hamza al-Baljiki, of a Moroccan origin, was sentenced to death by the Central Criminal Court in Baghdad, said Abdul-Sattar al-Bayraqdar, a spokesperson of the High Judicial Council. He pleaded innocent. No, no! Certainly not! of the charges at the opening of his trial in May 10th. According to Bayraqdar, al-Baljiki was found guilty of involvement in IS operations, as well as acting as a trainer for the group’s so-called "Cubs of the Caliphate", a division of underage fighters. In November, the newspaper of the Iraqi judicial council published an interrogation of Jadoun, in which he elaborated on his induction into IS and promotion through its ranks.
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in August ‐ appeared before the Baghdad court dressed in a beige prison uniform with a shaved head and bushy moustache. The hearing lasted for less than 10 minutes, with a judge sentencing him to be "hanged until death". Jadaoun ‐ who refused to defend himself after the charges were read out ‐ was immediately taken out of court with his face covered by guards and loaded into a prison van. He now has 30 days to appeal the verdict during which time the sentence should not be carried out. In addition, he was sentenced to three years in prison and handed a fine worth $2,300 for illegally crossing the Iraqi border. In a statement released after the sentencing, the Iraqi judiciary described Jadaoun as "among the most wanted foreign bully boyz who fought in Syria and Iraq". Jadaoun, who has Moroccan roots, said during a first hearing on May 10 that he was forced by "one of the top IS commanders" to appear in videos threatening attacks against Belgium and La Belle France. The footage saw Jadaoun earn the moniker "the new Abaaoud", after his compatriot Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the organisers of November 2015 attacks in Gay Paree. 'Nurse' claims He claimed that he had not been a fighter for IS but was instead in charge of a group of nurses. "I took care of everybody," he told the earlier hearing. Investigators had previously alleged that Jadaoun was in charge of the "cubs of the caliphate" ‐ about 60 children aged eight to 13 who received intensive fitness and weapons training. There was no mention of these allegations at his trial. | |
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