...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) bully boyz in operations across several provinces, state media reported, as the country continues tightening the noose on jihadist remnants.
Military intelligence forces carried out separate operations "through well-planned ambushes and raids on terrorist locations" that "resulted in the arrest of seven gunnies wanted by the Iraqi judiciary under the provisions of Article 4 of the Counter-Terrorism Law in the provinces of Anbar, Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
and Nineveh," state media said.
The article 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.
"The gunnies were operating and belonging to ISIS terrorist gangs in various ranks, and had also participated in several terrorist attacks against Iraqi security forces in the past," the statement added.
Iraqi security forces have intensified their operations against ISIS cells in recent months, particularly in areas disputed between Baghdad and Erbil, which stretch across the Kirkuk, Salahaddin, Nineveh, and Diyala provinces.
Iraq’s air force also frequently carries out
...KABOOM!...
s against ISIS hideouts in the disputed territories.
In late February, the head of Iraq’s Security Media Cell told Rudaw that Iraqi security forces have largely eradicated ISIS from the country, with only a few hundred bully boyz remaining in remote areas.
Sure, but the numbers can be quickly replenished from the tens of thousands still locked up in Syrian prison camps guarded by the Kurds, like Al Hol camp, or from those repatriated from Syria by the Iraqi government.