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| Alleged Italian IS Member Held in Syria, Say Kurds |
| 2018-09-14 |
| [AnNahar] Kurdish fighters in northern Syria detained an alleged Italian 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.... group as he was trying to flee across the border to ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... , they said Thursday. The People's Protection Units (YPG) have captured several foreign IS fighters since the jihadists' so-called caliphate collapsed nearly a year ago. "On August 27, a mercenary called Semir Bogana was captured as a result of a special operation conducted by our Anti-Terror Units, when he was trying to flee to Turkey," said the YPG. It said Bogana -- an Italian citizen known also as Abu Hureyre al-Muhajir or Abu Abdullah al-Muhajir -- was responsible for weapons shipments to IS. The YPG makes up the bulk of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed alliance of Kurds and Arabs that spearheaded the fight against IS. The detained Italian was currently being interrogated and "his fate will be determined at the end of the investigation," an SDF source told AFP. "We are coordinating with the international coalition, which includes Italia, about all the ISIS detainees," he added, using an Arabic acronym for IS. At the peak of its "caliphate" in Syria and Iraq, IS attracted thousands of foreigners to join it. But it has since lost almost all of its territory, including its de facto capital in Syria, the northern city of Raqa. Since then, U.S.-backed forces have been detaining foreign IS members in both Syria and Iraq. Among their most infamous detainees are Alexanda Amon Kotey and El Shafee el-Sheikh, two survivors of a four-man IS unit that saw foreign journalists and others tortured and beheaded. They had been dubbed "The Beatles" because they were British. French IS members were also tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! in the months after Raqa's fall, including Adrien Guihal, Emilie Konig, and Thomas Barnouin. The fate of the foreigners, including whether they are handed over to their national authorities, is a controversial topic as some countries appear unwilling to accept extradited nationals who fought with IS in Syria. Last month, Washington said two Americans accused of supporting IS had been handed over to U.S. authorities by the Syrian Democratic Forces. Lebanese members of IS have also been transferred to Beirut. |
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| Posted by: Frank G 2018-09-14 08:33 |