According to Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kasimi, Iraqi security forces have arrested the deputy head of the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS). Secret service employees had caught Sami Jasim Mohammed al-Jaburi during a “complex operation” abroad, Al-Kasimi announced on Twitter on Monday.
Al-Kasimi did not say where and when the operation took place. At the same time, the Iraqi security forces’ media office published a photo allegedly showing al-Jaburi in a yellow prisoner uniform with disheveled hair and a white beard.
Al-Jaburi was the deputy and close confidante of IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in Syria in autumn 2019 during a deployment by US special forces. According to US information, he overlooked the finances of the terrorist militia and their business with oil, gas, antiquity and mineral resources.
The US Treasury Department had named him in 2015 as responsible for IS’s financial affairs. The US had put a five million dollar bounty on him.
A few years ago, IS had ruled large areas in Iraq and Syria and proclaimed a caliphate there. The Islamists have now been militarily defeated there, but are still active and perpetrating attacks. (dpa)
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