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Iraq

Sulaimani security forces arrest 30 ISIS suspects

2024-02-29

From a week ago.

[Rudaw] Internal security forces (Asayish) in Sulaimani on Thursday announced the arrest of 30 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....
(ISIS) suspects who were found to be "spreading the turban ideas of ISIS" on social media platforms.

The forces "received information about the presence of two groups in the Pishdar and Bitwen regions who were spreading turban ideas on social media platforms and had planned to join the ranks of ISIS and become fighters for the terrorist group," the Asayish said in a statement.

The suspects were placed under surveillance for 20 days and later arrested in several large-scale operations in December of last year.

Confessions aired by the Asayish on Facebook on Thursday detail that the suspects had intended to leave their hometowns to join the ranks of ISIS on several occasions but were told by the group to remain in the Kurdistan Region and spread their ideology there.

According to the confessions, they considered the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), as well as all civil servants receiving government salaries and religious holy mans who they accused of spying for government agencies, as kuffar, or infidels (non-believers).

In November, 55 ISIS suspects, including three emirs, were arrested in a five-month long operation in Sulaimani.

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