...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...ISIS terrorist group over their involvement in a kaboom in the country’s southern province of Dhi Qar, which claimed the lives of dozens of civilians and left many more injured last September.
A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, told Arabic-language al-Ghad Press news agency that the criminal court in Dhi Qar issued the verdicts on Sunday, noting that all convicts were Iraqi nationals.
At least 60 people were killed and dozens more maimed in two gun-and-car kabooms near the city of Nassiriyah on September 14, 2017.
The attacks started with person or persons unknown opening fire inside a restaurant on the main highway that links the capital Baghdad with the southern provinces.
Shortly afterwards, a boom-mobile targeted a security checkpoint in the same area.
ISIS terrorist group later grabbed credit for the attacks.
Yahya al-Nassiri, the province's governor, said the majority of the victims were Iranian pilgrims who were inside the restaurant.