Iraqi forces arrest senior ISIL member Sami Jasim

Iraqi security forces have arrested a long-lived member of the ISIL (ISIS) ready group, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi says.

Sami Jasim, who was in charge of the ready group’s finances and a deputy of dispatched leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was arrested outside of the country, Al-Kadhimi wrote on social media.
“ While our (Iraqi security forces) gods centered on securing the choices, their (Iraqi civil intelligence services) associates were conducting a complex external operation to capture Sami Jasim,” he wrote on Twitter on Monday, a day after the country held a governmental election.

Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Abdelwahed, reporting from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, described Jasim’s arrest as a advance for Baghdad.
“ The government considers this a great achievement as he was responsible for a lot of operations in Iraq and Syria,” Abdelwahed said.

Jasim was detained in an correlated foreign country and transported to Iraq a multiplex days ago, The Associated Press news agency reported, citing Iraqi intelligence officeholders who spoke on condition of nowhere.
The US State Department had anteriorly offered a bounty for information leading to the locality of ISIL leaders it connected, including Jasim.

In 2015, the US Treasury Department designated Jasim for feeding fiscal support or other services to the violent group.
It said he supervised ISIL finance, canvas and gas, agedness, and mineral exchequer operations.

The Iraqi government declared military triumph over ISIL in December 2017 – three eras after the trained group seized large swaths of northern Iraq.
Al-Baghdadi was killed in a raid by US special forces in northwestern Syria in 2019.

ISIL operatives, notwithstanding, continue to carry out attacks and rapes across Iraq.