Iraqi sources provided more details about the new leader of the ISIS terrorist group.
According to Pak Sahafat News agency International Group, quoted by Nas News, Yesterday, the ISIL terrorist group issued a statement confirming the death of its former leader and introducing a new leader. The ISIL terrorist group has named “Abu al-Hassan Al-Hashimi Al-Qurashi” as its new leader.
Following the official announcement of the appointment of Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi as the leader of the ISIS terrorist group, Iraqi sources released more details about his identity.
A well-informed security source told Nas News that the name of the new ISIL leader is “Bashar al-Khattab al-Ghazal al-Samida’i”, who is known as “Hajji Zayd” and was previously in charge of the judiciary and sharia of the ISIL terrorist group.
According to this security source, “Abul Hassan Al-Hashimi Al-Qurashi” has other organizational letters such as “Abu Khattab Al-Iraqi” and “Abu Ishaq”.
The informed source, who did not want to be named, stressed that the new leader of ISIL returned to Syria from Turkey about a year ago.
According to the report, this person joined the terrorist group in 2013, before Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi attempted to unite the two terrorist branches of ISIL in Iraq and Syria.
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The official added: Four candidates have been nominated for the leadership of ISIL: Abu Muslim, one of the ISIL leaders in Anbar province, Abu Khadijeh and Abu Saleh, who were closest to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Abu Yasir al-Issawi, the ISIL field commander, and there have been reports of his death.
According to the report, al-Samidai, or “Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi,” was a member of the Ansarullah group, which was formed in 2001 and consisted of a group of Ba’athist and Arab forces fighting in Afghanistan and Chechnya before joining ISIS.
The Iraqi intelligence services have become the main center for gathering information about terrorist groups, and other countries are using Iraq to detect terrorist activities.
News sources have previously claimed that the information that led to the identification of Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi’s residence and that he was killed in a US-led operation was provided by Iraqis.
US President Joe Biden has said that al-Qurashi was killed in a military operation in Syria ordered by him.
Qurashi, known as Abdullah Qardash, originally named Amir Mohammad Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, was identified as the leader of the ISIS terrorist group after the assassination of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
He was arrested in 2008 and the only image of him at the time was that US forces interrogated him at Boka Prison in southern Iraq. He was interrogated for months. The U.S. military claims that during his interrogation, he provided them with good information about dozens of ISIS members. In early 2010, more than a decade ago, he approached Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a former ISIS leader. At the height of ISIL’s tenure, he served as Minister of Justice, overseeing severe punishments, including executions.