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February 2nd, 2018 
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nsnbc : The Iraqi Army’s Counter-Terrorism Service has announced that it transfers the Islamic Sate’s foreign members to the Justice Ministry in order to stand trial at Iraqi courts. Sabah al-Noaman, spokesperson of the Service said the detainees include nine women, including German and French nationals, and some European men.
Photo courtesy Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service, July 2017
Counter-Terrorism Service spokesman Sabah al-Noaman said “Those who were extradited (to the ministry) had committed terrorist crimes in Iraq. Thus, they will be brought to trial in accordance with Iraqi law.”
Noaman highlighted the efforts made by intelligence authorities to follow IS (a.k.a. ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh) sleeper cells, indicating, “coordination and exchange of information with foreign intelligence authorities.”
Earlier this week, the Diyala Criminal Court sentenced a suspect, involved with Al-Qaeda, to death over taking part in kidnapping and execution of eight civilians in 2007. Previously in January, the same court sentenced an Islamic State militant to death over involvement in killing 47 civilians in 2006.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced, in December 2017, the full liberation of Iraqi lands, declaring end of war against IS members. However, even though the Islamic State no longer holds large swaps of land it changed its strategy and is still present throughout the country.
Thousands of IS militants as well as Iraqi civilians were killed since the government campaign, backed by paramilitary troops and the coalition was launched in October 2016 to fight the militant group, which declared a self-styled “caliphate” from Mosul in June 2014.
Baghdad Central Criminal Court (archives)
Among those facing trial before an Iraqi court and possibly facing the death penalty is the German Linda Wenzel who ran away from home after converting to Islam was found by Iraqi troops in Mosul. The runaway teenager said she just wants to go home. She was 16-years old in July 2016 when news about her first broke could theoretically face the death penalty.
In July 2017 the then 16-years-old German runaway girl spoke with reporters in Mosul after she was discovered by Iraqi troops there. Apparently still shell-shocked she said “I just want to go back home to my family. … I want to get away from all the weapons, away from the noise.”
She was interviewed by reporters for the German State broadcaster ARD after she was found earlier that month as Iraqi forces liberated the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from the self-proclaimed Islamic State.
Iraq’s anti-terrorism laws stipulate that she could face the death penalty – an issue that not only would call German diplomacy but also provoke – unwanted – attention from the UN and rights organizations worldwide.
German officials reported that Linda Wenzel ran away from her home in the small eastern German town of Pulsnitz in the summer of 2016, shortly after converting to Islam. She had been in touch with ISIS members online and was married to one of the extremist group’s fighters after arriving in the group’s territory.
The German State broadcaster ARD reported that her husband died shortly after the marriage. The girl said she had been hiding in a basement in Mosul when Iraqi soldiers captured her. She said she is “doing fine” despite a bullet wound in her left leg that she said “is from a helicopter attack.”
Should Wenzel be sentenced to death in Iraq she could be executed when she becomes 22-years-old. Maria Adebahr, a spokeswoman for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in July 2016 that German Embassy staff visited Wenzel and another German woman. While Germany and Iraq didn’t have any official extradition agreements, the German government was looking into other ways of cooperation regarding the two German women, Adebahr said. Since July 2016 there hasn’t been heard much about her case.
Photos of a disheveled young woman in the presence of Iraqi soldiers went viral online earlier this month, but there were initially contradicting reports about the girl’s identity. The soldiers initially mistook her for a Yazidi woman, but the teenager told them: “I’m not Yazidi, I’m German.”
Iraqi officials reported that Linda Wenzel was one of 26 foreigners arrested in Mosul that month of July 2017. The Iraqis found three other women from Germany, with roots in Morocco, Algeria and Chechnya. Iraqi officials said the German-Moroccan woman has a child and both were arrested in Mosul.
A Chechen-German woman was reportedly identified as Fatima. In July 2016 she was reportedly sharing a room with Wenzel and had an arm injury. The woman, according to ARD, had told them that her two children were missing after a recent air raid in Mosul.
CH/L – nsnbc 02.02.2018
Source Article from https://nsnbc.me/2018/02/02/foreign-isis-members-including-german-teenage-girl-to-stand-trial-at-iraqi-courts/
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