THI-QAR / Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces arrested one of the most important financiers of armed groups in Thi-Qar and found explosives in his possession, a local police chief said on Wednesday.“The Thi-Qar police arrested the man in al-Juwieber region, Karmat Bani Saad district, eastern Nassiriya,” General Sabah al-Fatlawi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The forces raided his house and arrested him after trading fire for some time,” he added.
“They found six bombs, a Katyusha rocket and a number of light weapons and explosive materials,” he said.
Nassiriya, the capital of Thi-Qar, is 380 km south of Baghdad.