...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) in Salahaddin province amid a countrywide spike in anti-ISIS operations, state media reported.
"The intelligence agency’s detachments specialized in combating terrorism in Salahaddin Iraqi security forces on Saturday announced the arrest of nine suspected members of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Salahaddin province amid a countrywide spike in anti-ISIS operations, state media reported.
"The intelligence agency’s detachments specialized in combating terrorism in Salahaddin were able to arrest nine wanted suspects through separate operations and high-level efforts and planning," state media said, citing a statement from Iraq’s Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency.
They were arrested in accordance with Article Four of the Counter-Terrorism Law of 2005, which says that anyone found guilty of committing a terror offense is given a death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
, with life imprisonment given to those who assist or hide those convicted of terrorism.
"Upon investigation, they explicitly confessed to belonging to the remnants of the terrorist ISIS gangs and to carrying out many terrorist attacks in Salahaddin province," the statement added.
On Friday, three ISIS suspects were arrested by Iraqi intelligence forces in the capital Baghdad.