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Iraq
Iraqi court frees French ISIS suspect it says went to Syria to ‘help Yezidis’
2019-04-19
[Rudaw] Iraq’s terror court has released one of the French 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) suspects captured in Syria it had pledged to prosecute in a landmark deal that appeared to resolve the legal conundrum Western power faced with respect to their nationals who allegedly joined the hard boy group.

The unnamed suspect was released by the Karkh Investigative Court, which is specialized in terror cases, "due to lack of evidence," the Supreme Judicial Council announced on Thursday.

"The investigation of him continued for three months and it was proven that he had illegally entered into Syrian territory," the council stated.

In the investigation, they also found that "his military contribution to any military operation wasn't proven and his entry was to help the cause of the Yezidis triumph."

The judicial council does not indicate how the investigation was conducted and what evidence was found that led them to their conclusion.

Vian Dakhil, a Yezidi and former member of the Iraqi parliament, reacted to the announced release of the Frenchie, tweeting that she had many questions about the case.

"We don’t know how and what he was doing with them. A journalist? NGOs? Just there watching the battles?" she asked. "I hope not all the ISIS members come out innocent. forbid."

ISIS committed genocide against the Yezidis, killing thousands of men and older persons when they swept across northern Iraq in 2014. The jihadists kidnapped and enslaved more than 6,000 Yezidi women and kiddies. The fates of 2,992 of them are still unknown, according to the most recent figures from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s office of Yezidi affairs. The Iraqi government, with the support of the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
, has begun exhuming mass graves believed to hold the remains of hundreds of Yezidis executed by ISIS.
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