Iraqi court sentences four Takfiri Daesh terrorists to life imprisonment

Iraqi judicial officials have handed down life terms to four people over membership in the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group and involvement in acts of terror across the war-ravaged Arab country.

Sadeq al-Husseini, the head of the Security Committee in Diyala Provincial Council, told Arabic-language Baghdad Today news website that the Judiciary issued the verdicts against the convicts, after they were found guilty to have joined the terror outfit and assisted the extremists in their attacks against security and military forces.

Ahmed al-Shimary of the Diyala Operations Command said on August 26 that a high-ranking Daesh militant commander, better known by the nom de guerre Abu Ahmed, had been killed in a clash between two Daesh groups at an orchard in the village of Mkheisa, located some 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) northeast of the provincial capital Baquba.

Shimary added that Ahmed was one of the aides of the former founder of the al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a US airstrike in 2006.

Ahmed, who was an Iraqi national, joined Daesh terrorist group in 2014, and became one of its main commanders in Diyala Province.

On August 19, the Iraqi Judiciary upheld death sentences against more than a dozen convicts involved in a June 2014 massacre by Daesh Takfiri terrorists at an air force camp in the country’s north-central province of Salahuddin.

Head of the Committee for the Commemoration of the carnage, Moin al-Kazemi, said in a statement that Iraqi judicial officials had passed the ruling on 14 convicts, urging the officials to carry out the sentences as soon as possible.

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