Pak Sahafat – Iraqi news sources reported the deployment of more than 8,000 members of the ISIS terrorist group in the country.
According to Pak Sahafat News agency, quoted by Al-Ma’loumeh News Agency, about 4,000 of these ISIS elements are currently active in Iraq, and the other half are operating covertly, mostly in Iraq’s Sunni provinces. ISIS in Iraq is divided into two parts, the political and the military, and both groups are moving in the same direction.
Yesterday, Hadi al-Amiri, the head of the Al-Fatah coalition, strongly criticized the return of criminals to the Iraqi political scene and called on the Iraqi judiciary to teach them a hard lesson by making an appropriate decision and finding them guilty.
Al-Amiri strongly criticized the return of some criminal leaders of the political currents to Iraq, saying: “We are very surprised by the return of those who paved the way for ISIL to infiltrate Iraq.”
Mehdi Taqi al-Amrli, the head of the Badr faction in the Iraqi parliament, also issued a statement opposing the return of political ISIS members who paved the way for ISIL terrorists to enter Iraq.
The head of the Badr faction added: In the strongest possible terms, we condemn the return of political ISIL to Iraq through the lens of sedition and the slogans of the Ba’athist sects and al-Qaeda elements, which have paved the way for the entry of terrorism and the expulsion of ISIL.
Former Finance Minister Rafi al-Issawi and Ali Hatem Suleiman, a nomadic leader from Iraq’s Sunni province of Anbar, are two political figures known for their outspoken support for terrorism in 2014 and they have alleged for incursion of ISIS into western Anbar province, was persecuted by the Iraqi judiciary and fled the country, but both figures have returned to Iraq in recent days with some shaky political deals and amnesty on some charges to resume their political activities.
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Reports on Rafi al-Issawi indicate that the Sunni political figure accused of terrorism and corruption cases, as a result of political guarantees he received from some of the ruling political parties in Iraq, voluntarily surrendered to the Iraqi judiciary on June 17, 2016, he was acquitted of some corruption charges on April 12, but the rest of his corruption and terrorism cases are still pending.
However, al-Issawi returned to Fallujah in Anbar and was welcomed by his tribe, who was later welcomed in Baghdad by al-Azm (Sunni) Coalition leader Khamis al-Khanjar, who offered to join the coalition until Resume political activity.
On the other hand, “Ali Hatem Suleiman”, one of the great leaders of “Al-Daleem” tribes in Anbar and accused of supporting ISIL terrorism, announced his presence in Baghdad last Wednesday without prior notice and said that he was trying to confront the corrupt, normalizers With the Zionist regime and the claimants of Sunni political leadership.
He is also said to have been based on flawed political agreements, the true nature of which has not yet been revealed, and only a handful of speculations have been made about it.
Coinciding with the return of the two Sunni figures, both from Anbar province, news reports indicate that Ahmad al-Alwani, another accused of collaborating with a terrorist in prison, recently went to the police station in the central Green Zone.
Iraqi media and social networks published a picture of al-Alwani today, saying that he was on his way to the Green Security Zone police station to subsequently secure his release.
Ahmad al-Alwani is also a prominent Sunni political figure from Anbar province who was arrested and imprisoned for supporting and collaborating with terrorism in the second term of Nouri al-Maliki’s government.
Former Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi and former Ninawa Governor Atheel al-Nujaifi are other figures who some sources have said may be pardoned and return to Iraq to return to politics after years.
In December 2017, after about three and a half years of fighting with ISIS, which occupied about a third of the country, Iraq announced the liberation of all its territories from the clutches of this terrorist group, but the remaining elements of ISIS are still in parts of Baghdad.