Iraqi secret agents successfully captured the top 5 deputy ISIS leaders Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi and used the person's phone to lure four ISIS officials into the trap. "Ismail Al Eithawi alias Abu Zaid al-Iraqi was arrested last February in Turkey and handed over to the Iraqi intelligence apparatus," Iraqi government security adviser Hisham Al Hashimi said on Thursday (10/05/2018). Hashimi calls Al Eithawi a close assistant to ISIS leader Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi who is responsible for ISIS's money traffic in a number of different banks in several countries.
Iraqi intelligence agents used the Telegram app on Al Eithawi's mobile phone to lure some ISIS commanders to cross the border from Syria to Iraq. "After entering Iraqi territory, we immediately arrested them," said Hashimi.
The ISIS officials arrested by Iraqi intelligence officers include Saddam Jamal, a Syrian man who served as ISIS governor of the Euphrates region. Al Eithawi and Jamal, according to Hashimi, are two of ISIS's most senior figures who can be captured in alive conditions. The arrest of senior ISIS commanders was announced by the government on television on Wednesday (9/5/2018). Hashimi added that the arrest operation is a collaboration between the Iraqi and US intelligence services as part of a war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Following the arrest of Al Eithawi, US and Iraqi intelligence agents successfully uncovered bank accounts used by ISIS and secret communications codes used by ISIS leaders. In addition to the two senior figures, this operation successfully captured three commanders of Syrian citizen Mohammad Al Qadeer, as well as two Iraqis, Omar Al Karbouli and Essam Al Zawbai.
"Now their space is getting narrower," said Hashimi, referring to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi whose real name is Ibrahim Al-Sammarai. Baghdadi, who proclaimed the establishment of the Islamic state of Syria, after seizing the city of Mosul, is now believed to be in hiding in the middle of a point on the border of Iraq and Syria. Baghdadi was forced to hide after the cities in Iraq and Syria he had occupied, one by one falling into the Iraqi army.
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