...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) suspect accused of plotting attacks in the Kurdistan Region, the military announced on Saturday.
The suspect nicknamed Abu Ibrahim Dabq is the "first" wanted man by the security forces in the Kurdistan Region, the Security Media Cell said in a statement published on its Telegram channel.
He is accused of being responsible for setting up "terrorist checkpoints" in Anbar, Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
and other governorates, it added.
Dabq’s wife has already been arrested, the statement added. She was suspected of smuggling weapons and explosives into Erbil for ISIS and was in-charge of distributing some funds to Death Eaters.
An ISIS official and coordinator between leaders was also arrested, according to the military statement.
ISIS holy warriors and sleeper cells remain active, particularly in parts of northern and western Iraq. Four people were killed in two villages near Makhmour in a suspected ISIS attack on Saturday morning.
Last week, Kurdish security forces arrested a group of ISIS suspects that were planning terror acts in Erbil. They are accused of plotting to plant bombs inside the city’s bazaar as well as targeting foreigners and security personnel.