Terrorism: Iraqi Special Force Captures ISIS commander, Abdul Nasser Qirdash
One of the top ISIS commander, Abdul Nasser Qirdash has been captured by the Iraqi Special Forces, the country’s national intelligence service has announced.
Abdul Nasser Qirdash, who was once listed as a possible replacement to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as head of ISIS, was arrested on Wednesday, May 20, 2020.
The Iraqi Special Forces Intelligence Service as monitored by Al-Arabiya states; “Today, the terrorist named Abdulnasser al-Qirdash, the candidate to succeed the criminal al-Baghdadi, was arrested. The arrest came after accurate intelligence”.
The statement continued; “Abdul Nasser Qirdash served as the head of the commission authorised by the terrorist organisation Daesh, and he worked with the organisation as a leader from the time of the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi until the battles of al-Baghouz that he led himself.”
Details on how he was captured or where the operation took place were however not disclosed.
The former head of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died in October 2019 when US forces stormed his compound in Northwestern Syria during which he detonated his own suicide vest in the targeted raid on his lair in Syria’s Idlib province and killed three of his children in the blast.
After Baghdadi’s death it was reported that Muhammad al-Mawla ‘The Professor’, was to take over as the caliph.