[Rudaw] An Iraqi man who was in charge of transferring 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....
(ISIS) members from Kirkuk to Diyala province near the Iranian border in recent months has been incarcerated
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
, Kurdish security forces said on Thursday. This could be a major blow to the simmering insurgence that is brewing in the Sunni provinces in northern Iraq since the group’s territorial control of the area ended in late 2017.
"Over the past few days the Garmiyan Asayesh forces in Kalar managed to arrest an Arab suspect," Osman Abdulkarim, the spokesperson of the Garmiyan Asayesh announced in a presser. "The suspect confessed before the investigating judge that he had joined the ISIS terrorist organization in Kirkuk."
Abdulkarim added the ISIS member, 22, also confessed that "he was in charge of the transfer of ISIS bandidos turbans from Kirkuk and Hawija to Palkana."
Palkana village is near Sargaran town west of Kirkuk. Since the declared defeat of ISIS, the village and surrounding areas have been a hotbed for the group’s lingering and still deadly remnants.
"He had been trying to move from Kalar to Sulaimani using fake ID to hide himself..." he explained.
The ISIS member, whose name was not revealed, is also said to have been a member of the group’s security department.
As part of the continued campaigns against ISIS remnants, last week the Garmiyan court handed down a five year prison sentence to four ISIS members from Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Kifri, Tuz Khurmatu, and Kalar who had been arrested in raids carried out in mid-2018 after they had all confessed membership to the hard boy group.
"Our forces will continue to pursue those bandidos turbans who want hide themselves in these areas," added the official.
It was the seventh additional arrest of an ISIS member over the past two months in Garmiyan, Abdulkarim added.
Confessions, whether in earnest or coerced, are used frequently in courts across the Middle East as proof of one’s suspected guilt.
Rights groups have criticized Iraq for its prosecution of ISIS suspects. Human Rights Watch has reported judicial authorities are rushing trials and using coerced confessions.
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