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Iraqi officers find Islamic State jihadis hidden among the refugees fleeing Mosul

Mar 1, 2017 10:49 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Iraqi officers have found Islamic State members fleeing Mosul and hiding among refugees, which should come as no surprise. The Islamic State vowed to infiltrate the refugee stream and also threatened that it was “coming to America.” Nonetheless, Western authorities and media continue to accuse anyone with valid concerns about this of being racist and “Islamophobic.”

“An operative working for Islamic State has revealed the terror group has successfully smuggled thousands of covert jihadists into Europe”; and they will do the same thing in North America. In fact,  “’thousands’ of ISIS fighters are inside U.S cities” already.

“Iraqi officers find Islamic State members hidden among refugees fleeing Mosul”, by Stephen Kalin, Reuters, February 28, 2017:

A few hundred men who had scurried across front lines in a refugee exodus from Mosul sat on the ground in neat rows before an Iraqi intelligence officer who scanned the crowd for hidden militants.

The officer pulled a teenager onto a raised platform and asked the group if he belonged to Islamic State (IS). Muffled groans were followed by nods and muttered comments.

The youth was then dragged off to a pickup truck and his arms tied behind his back. He confessed to a three-month membership in IS and spending a week in a training camp, but said he had only been a cook and never carried a weapon.

As growing numbers of residents flee fighting between insurgents and Iraqi military forces seeking to recapture the IS-held western half of Iraq’s second largest city, security units have been transporting civilians to government-run camps and weeding out IS infiltrators.

Just over a week into the offensive on the militants’ last urban bastion in Iraq, some 14,000 inhabitants have slipped out of the city, trekking through stony desert. Most are women, children and elderly but there are also hundreds of young men who must pass screening by the security forces.

All are hungry and thirsty after three months under a virtual siege of western districts by Iraqi forces. Some have been wounded in the crossfire of a battle that could deal a hammer blow to Islamic State’s territorial ambitions.

Up to 400,000 people may have to leave their homes during the new U.S.-backed offensive launched this month after Iraqi forces finished clearing districts east of the Tigris River that cleaves the city in Iraq’s far north.

The intelligence officer, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said he had extracted seven suspected Islamic State members on Sunday, the first day of mass displacement from western Mosul. Reuters saw four more in detention on Monday.

“The fighters don’t come out,” he said. Those who were loyal to the jihadist movement but played a less public, mainly non-combatant role are more likely to try to slip through the dragnet, the intelligence officer added.

Security forces keep on hand some local Mosul inhabitants they refer to as “sources” to help them identify suspects.

One of the “sources”, a wiry young man wearing a green balaclava to shield his identity, stood with intelligence officers as a new batch of men handed over their identification to be checked against a computer database.

TELLTALE BEHAVIOUR

Most Islamic State militants are killed in battle, though Iraqi forces have captured alive a handful over the past week including a few from former Soviet republics and China.

The intelligence officer said he had learned to pinpoint IS associates from how they behaved with him.

“You can tell because they are afraid. Those who are not Daesh are also afraid but it’s different from the fear of those who are with Daesh,” he said, without elaborating, using an Arabic acronym for Islamic State.

The Iraqi military considers the screening process to be effective so far, but gives no figures.

“We have a mechanism. We have names and sources but even so we don’t know all of them. But there are people who cooperate; most of them are cooperative,” the intelligence officer said.

Some of those held in groups for interrogation were clearly motivated to expose IS supporters in their midst by the repression and brutality of Islamic State’s rule in Mosul.

“People are cooperative because two years is a long time to be under constant pressure,” the intelligence officer said.

“When you ask who among you is with Daesh, there are people who will point them out and say they did such and such. Like these guys, this morning I brought them one and asked if they knew him. Two of them got up and said he is Daesh.”

A U.S. intelligence official who asked not to be named said some Islamic State combatants had escaped Mosul as well as the Syrian city of Raqqa amidst the chaos of combat, but U.S.-backed forces’ encirclement of both cities had reduced the risk of militants making their way out to carry out attacks elsewhere….

 

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  1. mortimer says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 11:09 am

    These deserters will be invaluable sources of information about the whereabouts of command centers and the conditions of the commanders and those fighters still alive. Kurds, Iraqis and allies will be able to target remaining command centers with pinpoint accuracy.

    Deserters will help reduce the remaining time before the ISIS barbarians are brought to justice. The commanders should be tried at the World Criminal Court, but local Iraqi courts could try them under Iraqi law.

  2. Stan Lee says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 11:12 am

    What did the Iraqi troops think they would find among refugees? Concealing themselves behind women, the elderly, and children, is their universal tactic. Detecting them hiding behind, even dressed as women, or lying about their ages to be younger, is what they’ve done in Europe and the Iraqi troops are probably expecting to find these IS monsters in the refugee hordes.
    Arrest and fair trial is too good for them. There is no reason to question one’s self concerning how they treat prisoners, that issue has been demonstrated in the news photos of the dead non-combatants in their agonized positions of brutalized deaths. This is the IS way, though when it appears that they will be beaten and taken prisoners, they will hide behind the women and children that these demented monsters would usually torture or rape when the innocent are captured to be their victims.

  3. marina says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 12:11 pm

    Yet the leaders of Europe don’t care. They want more and more of these cretins in their country. Thankfully the Grand Mufti Obama is gone.

    • Itinerant says

      Mar 1, 2017 at 6:41 pm

      ‘don’t care’
      It would seem so;
      Manuel Valls the PM of France at the time- (speaking of jihadist terrorism) the enemy is ‘radical Islamism’ but that has ‘nothing to do with Islam’ .
      “……France is going to have to live with terrorism.”
      Mayor of Londonstan, Sadiq Khan apparently thinks much the same- after all, terrorism is just “part and parcel of living in a big city”.
      https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8522/france-jihadist-attack
      https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/16/world/europe/attack-nice-bastille-day.html?_r=0
      http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sadiq-khan-london-mayor-terrorism-attacks-part-and-parcel-major-cities-new-york-bombing-a7322846.html

      Apparently, jihadis perpetrating medieval atrocities and de-facto Sharia blasphemy executions, are the new normal- for the cognitive dissonant self-declared ‘progressive’.

      There seems a Maoist element, an indifference to collateral damage on the Great Leap Backwards to Eurabia.

  4. putridislam says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 3:39 pm

    If this was in Canada, they’d be invited with open arms because Trudeau is a traitor.

  5. Angemon says

    Mar 1, 2017 at 4:54 pm

    Iraqi officers have found Islamic State members fleeing Mosul and hiding among refugees, which should come as no surprise.

    Indeed. What’s stopping a member of ISIS to simply changing their clothes and pretending to be a civilian?

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