Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the arrest of ISIS leader “Professor Zeid” on Thursday evening.
According to reports, this leader is nicknamed “Abouzid” and his real name is Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Samidai.
While the President of Turkey did not mention the actions taken or even the date of this arrest, Amaq Agency, the media arm of the terrorist organization ISIS, announced on March 10 that after the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi, the leader of this organization and the spokesperson of Abu Hamzah. Al-Muhajar, Al-Samidai pledged allegiance to the new leader of the organization.
Erdoğan said that a UN report published in July said that al-Samidayi was “one of the most senior leaders of the terrorist organization”.
He continued: The connection of this terrorist in Syria and Istanbul was followed long ago and the intelligence services obtained information about his intention to enter Turkey illegally.
Iraqi intelligence had previously announced that “Al-Samidai is 47 years old and grew up in Al-Wahda neighborhood in the city of Mosul.” According to the information, he was a member of the Ansar al-Sunnah group that joined ISIS in 2013, before Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi merged his Iraqi group with his Syrian branch and renamed it the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. “
In early 2014, al-Samidai was a “blood judge” in Nineveh, a judge specializing in murder or the death penalty. After al-Baghdadi was killed, al-Samidai tried to re-establish the senior leadership of the organization. along with two other assistants, Haji Hamid and Haji Taysar.
The President of Turkey mentioned yesterday evening that his affiliations in Syria and Istanbul have been followed for a long time and information about his intention to enter Turkey was obtained illegally, but he was arrested with a fake birth certificate and made changes in it. Is. His outward appearance
According to the American magazine “New Lines”, “Haji Zaid” joined ISIS only in 2013 and before that he was one of the leaders of “Ansarullah” group.
This magazine noted: “Haji Zaid” was assigned important roles immediately after joining the organization due to his fame in the Jihadi community for many years. In addition, he was a missionary at the “Imam al-Mutaqeen” center, which he graduated from. A number of ISIS missionaries
Source: Lebanon Debate
