Baghdad: Iraq said on Monday that it had detained a top leader of Islamic State group and a long time al Qaeda Active in cross border operations. Iraqi PM Mustafa Al-Kadhimi Tweeted the news identifying the man Sami Jassimo, which oversees the financial operations of the IS group and serves as deputy leader of IS under the late Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Al-Kadhimi described it as one of the “toughest” cross-border intelligence operations conducted by Iraqi forces. A senior Iraqi military source told AFP that Jasim Was arrested in Turkey with no details.
Jassim is headed by a $5 million reward from the US State Department’s Rewards for Justice program, which describes him as an “assistant in managing finances for IS terrorist operations.” The website says, “While serving as an IS deputy in southern Mosul in 2014, Jassim allegedly served as the finance minister’s counterpart to the IS group, fighting the illegal sale of oil, gas, antiquities and minerals to the group. oversees the revenue-generating functions of the Iraqi intelligence officials said Jasim was detained in a designated foreign country and taken to Iraq a few days ago. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to put the operation on record. Jasim worked with al-Qaeda in Iraq’s leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian terrorist who was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq in 2006. He has held various security positions in Iraq, and moved to Syria in 2015 after the Islamic State group. The al-Qaeda branch, declared its caliphate in 2014 and became a deputy of the extremist group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Jassim is headed by a $5 million reward from the US State Department’s Rewards for Justice program, which describes him as an “assistant in managing finances for IS terrorist operations.” The website says, “While serving as an IS deputy in southern Mosul in 2014, Jassim allegedly served as the finance minister’s counterpart to the IS group, fighting the illegal sale of oil, gas, antiquities and minerals to the group. oversees the revenue-generating functions of the Iraqi intelligence officials said Jasim was detained in a designated foreign country and taken to Iraq a few days ago. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to put the operation on record. Jasim worked with al-Qaeda in Iraq’s leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian terrorist who was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq in 2006. He has held various security positions in Iraq, and moved to Syria in 2015 after the Islamic State group. The al-Qaeda branch, declared its caliphate in 2014 and became a deputy of the extremist group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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