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Iraq
Iraq's PMF apprehends ISIS top assassin in the Northern Baghdad Wilayat
2023-01-29
[SHAFAQ] Iraq's al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) on Saturday announced capturing the Islamic State
...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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
's top assassin in the so-called Wilayat of Northern Baghdad.

An official statement by the PMF media office said the terrorist was detained following a "tight ambush" set by the PMF's special force in al-Anbar, near al-Tahaddi checkpoint.

The arrestee, according to the statement, was in charge of the liquidation unit in the so-called Wilayat of Northern Baghdad when the holy warrior group took over swathes of Iraq's area in 2014.
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