Iraq arrests ISIS leader Abdulnasser al-Qirdash

[Kailash Kumar]

Iraq arrests ISIS leader Abdulnasser al-Qirdash said to be al-Baghdadi’s successor

Ismaeel Naar

20 May 2020

ISIS leader Abdulnasser al-Qirdash pictured after his arrest.

Iraqi intelligence has arrested Abdulnasser al-Qirdash, the ISIS leader said to be a favored candidate to succeed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to several Iraqi media outlets.

“Today, the terrorist named Abdulnasser al-Qirdash, the candidate to succeed the criminal al-Baghdadi, was arrested. [The arrest] came after accurate intelligence,” the statement from the Iraqi National Intelligence Service read.

Al-Qirdash was one of the candidates to succeed al-Baghdadi, who was killed by US forces in a raid in the Syrian city of Idlib last October.

The latest raid that led to the capture and arrest of al-Qirdash comes a month after Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Iraq’s former intelligence chief, became the country’s prime minister.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/Ne...al-Qirdash-said-to-be-al-Baghdadi-s-successor

 

[Imran Khan]

no mercy hang him

 

[SHAH BAAZ]

He looks like a laanti from his face.

 

[ArabianEmpires&Caliphates]

Iraq arrests ISIS leader Abdulnasser al-Qirdash said to be al-Baghdadi’s successor

Ismaeel Naar

20 May 2020

ISIS leader Abdulnasser al-Qirdash pictured after his arrest.

Iraqi intelligence has arrested Abdulnasser al-Qirdash, the ISIS leader said to be a favored candidate to succeed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to several Iraqi media outlets.

“Today, the terrorist named Abdulnasser al-Qirdash, the candidate to succeed the criminal al-Baghdadi, was arrested. [The arrest] came after accurate intelligence,” the statement from the Iraqi National Intelligence Service read.

Al-Qirdash was one of the candidates to succeed al-Baghdadi, who was killed by US forces in a raid in the Syrian city of Idlib last October.

The latest raid that led to the capture and arrest of al-Qirdash comes a month after Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Iraq’s former intelligence chief, became the country’s prime minister.

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/Ne...al-Qirdash-said-to-be-al-Baghdadi-s-successor

Great news but I don't think that he is the current ISIS leader. The current ISIS leader is an Iraqi Turkmen from Tal Afar whose real name apparently is Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ibrahim_al-Hashimi_al-Qurashi

I think that this terrorist is one of their regional "emirs" or "ministers". Not a familiar (for the public) name from what I gather.

Most of their old leadership has been killed or caught and there is great deal of uncertainty about who has replaced those terrorists. I don't think that they have replaced all their key positions at all and I believe that ISIS is heavily weakened. Many of the recent largely harmless attacks are probably small pockets of small ISIS cells. They are now reduced to hit and run attacks at night on lone or small army or federal police patrols. They don't have any large-scale or even significant support among locals to do what they once did before the chaos in 2014.

I don't predict any "revivals" anytime soon and I believe that this organization will die out not far from now similar to have AQ is dead nowadays outside of some small groups in the Sahel pledging allegiance to AQ.

ISIS is no longer the main challenge for the Iraqi state to "reign in", rather certain militias that try to act against the interests of the Iraqi state are a bigger headache although they will be easier to deal with as not as extreme as ISIS.

 

[Kailash Kumar]

Great news but I don't think that he is the current ISIS leader. The current ISIS leader is an Iraqi Turkmen from Tal Afar whose real name apparently is Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ibrahim_al-Hashimi_al-Qurashi

I think that this terrorist is one of their regional "emirs" or "ministers". Not a familiar (for the public) name from what I gather.

That could be true.

I searched for more information on the Internet.

This is what a journalist says on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1263197445879672832

It might be that the Iragi intelligence came with this news because of political reasons, which another newspaper suggests:

"The matter seems to have a direct relationship to internal accounts, as the intelligence service is still affiliated with Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, although information confirms that he has been in detention for some time and is being questioned, perhaps before the formation of the government that was announced a few days ago."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1284946/ISIS-candidate-arrested-iraq-terror-war-latest-us-trump