ISIS Commander, Abdul Nasser Qirdash Has Been Captured, Details Below

Leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, Abdul Nasser Qirdash has been capture.

It was reported that Abdul once tipped to replace Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as head of ISIS was nabbed on Wednesday, May 20 by the Iraq special forces at a yet to be disclosed location.

Ekohotblog understands that the development was disclosed in a statement released by the Iraq national intelligence service a few moments ago.

It reads thus: “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, according to a report in Al-Arabiya.”

“He served as the head of the commission authorised by the terrorist organisation Daesh, and he worked with the organisation as a leader from the time of the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi until the battles of al-Baghouz that he led himself.”

Recall that the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo in January 2020 rejected the request of the Adele Abdul-Mahdi, Iraqi Prime Minister’s to commence move to remove US military troops from Iraq.

Former head of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died in October 2019 when US forces stormed his compound in northwestern Syria. He detonated his own suicide vest during the targeted raid on his lair in Syria’s Idlib province and killed three of his children in the blast.

After Baghdadi’s death it was reported that Muhammad al-Mawla ‘The Professor’, was to take over as the caliph.

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