Baghdad: Iraq said on Monday it has detained the top leader of the old al-Qaeda Islamic group and operative in cross-border operations.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi tweeted the news, identified the man as Sami Jasim, who oversaw the financial operations of the Islamic State Group and served as Deputy Leader under the deceased Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.
Al-Kadhimi described it as “one of the most difficult cross-border intelligence operations carried out by Iraqi forces.
Jasim has a $ 5 million gift on his head from the US State Department award program, which describes it as “playing a role in financial management for terrorist surgery.” “While serving like a representative in South Mosul in 2014, Jasim was reported to serve as it was equivalent to the Minister of Finance Is, overseeing the operation of group earnings from the sale of oil, gas, antiques and minerals,” said the website.
Iraqi intelligence officials told the associated press that Jasim was detained in a foreign country identified and transported to Iraq a few days ago.
They speak with anonymous requirements because they are not authorized to talk about operations on the note.
Jasim worked with al-Qaida at the Iraqi Leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian militant who was killed in US air strikes in Iraq in 2006.
He took various security positions in Iraq, and moved to Syria in 2015, after the Islamic State group , Al-Qaida Offshoot, expressed his caliphate in 2014 and became the representative of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extreme group leader.
Al-Baghdadi was killed in US LED attacks in Northwestern Syria in 2019, under former President A.S.
Donald Trump.