IRAQ: AL-QAEDA MEMBER SENTENCED TO DEATH

An Iraqi criminal court handed down two death sentences to a senior al-Qaeda religious leader member, the Supreme Judicial Council announced on 14 June 2021.
The unnamed person was the Sharia Mufti of al-Qaeda in Salahddin province, the Supreme Judicial Council stated. He confessed to working as a religious mufti in the terror group and to being a founding member of al-Qaeda in Shirqat, 250 kilometres north of Baghdad. He had several meetings with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda’s former leader in Iraq who was killed in a US airstrike in 2006.
"The terrorist admitted to issuing fatwas for killing members of the army and police, in addition to his participation in several kidnappings and murders, and his targeting of Peshmerga forces," the judicial council stated.
He also worked with the Islamic State group (ISIS) as head of the information department in southern Mosul, and he purchased weapons and distributed salaries to ISIS members.