The chief of the Iraqi intelligence has stated that the occupying Turkish state has revived ISIS.
The report shared that “senior ISIS members planned their mass escape from the prisons” and stated that the organization has started to recover and regroup in Turkey.
Speaking to CNN in an interview, the Iraqi Intelligence Chairman Saad al Allaq, shared that they had given files to Turkey about nine senior leaders of the organization, amongst these names are financiers.
He stressed that the organization is planning mass escapes in the camps and prisons in Syria and Iraq, and that it is trying to recover manpower. Underlining the need for a serious international effort on the issue, the Iraqi intelligence chief warned that these people could flee to their home countries and pose a major threat to the world.
It is estimated that there are about ten thousand ISIS fighters, including foreigners, in areas controlled by the SDF. The SDF-controlled Hol Camp has 70,000 women and children, most of whom are ISIL-related families. Both the fighters and the families in the camps are considered to be a time bomb, even after the murder of the leader of the organization, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
El Allaq said that they continue to work with the CIA and that they have gathered information about the remaining leaders of the organization.
Disclosing that ISIS controls large amounts of money and that they are creating new cells in Turkey, Allaq stated that “some of the key leaders of the organization crossed from the north, to cities like Gaziantep on the Syrian-Turkish borders. These people, who secretly crossed the Syrian-Turkish border regions, had access to smugglers easily because they had large amounts of money in their hands.”
Iraqi Intelligence head said that these people who had crossed played a key role in providing ISIS members. Disclosing that these seniors had planned raids to the prisons, under the name of operation “Break Bars,” to free the organisation’s imprisoned members in order to restructure.
In the list of names within the file delivered to Turkey, Hayrullah fatthina Abdullah and Hussein Ferhan Assleb el Cumayl take their places on the wanted list in Iraq and are known as the person who make the best bombs within the organisations.
El Allaq warns that if ISIS reclaims control in areas where it has a large fan base, the outcome may be catastrophic.
