NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A police force arrested a "prominent leader" of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) group was in charge of collecting money and blackmailing local residents, a police source in Ninewa said on Saturday.
They bagged another number three! | "A force from the Ninewa Police Department's 7th Contingent arrested today (Dec. 25) Abbas Mohammed Amin al-Farahat in Tammuz 17 neighborhood, western Mosul, in accordance with Article 4 of the law on terrorism," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"Farahat is a member of the ISI who used to charge owners of fuel stations, power generators, stores and trucks forced financial tributes on a monthly basis," he added. |