...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) financing network that was planning "terrorist attacks" in European countries and against Iraqi interests abroad.
In a statement on X, the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) said that "through an exceptional and qualitative cross-border effort, and under the supervision of [Iraq’s] Supreme Judicial Council," it was able to dismantle the network "responsible for smuggling hard boyz across a number of countries around the world to support ISIS."
The agency added that arrests "have been made in several West African countries" following extensive surveillance of the network’s "movements and communications" with "other networks inside and outside Iraq." INIS further added that these networks were involved in financing ISIS and were "plotting terrorist attacks in European countries and against Iraqi interests overseas."
INIS noted on Monday, that the latest effort is "a continuation of a qualitative operation" it had carried out in Kirkuk in 2023, which targeted a network "responsible for financing ISIS cells."