The terrorist who now leads Islamic State was as soon as a prisoner of the US navy and supplied his captors with in depth intelligence earlier than being let go, declassified experiences present.
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi was appointed head of the so-called caliphate in October 2019, following the demise of the fear group’s earlier chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in a US raid in Syria.
Removed from being a shadowy thriller, al-Qurashi is well-known to US counterterrorism officers – as a result of he was as soon as a prisoner of US-led coalition forces working in Iraq.
Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal Rahman al-Mawla – his given title – was captured in late 2007 or early 2008 and subjected to dozens of interrogations by US navy officers. On the time he was a mid-level official inside the Islamic State of Iraq, which later turned Islamic State (IS, previously often known as ISIS).
Whereas the US navy had beforehand disclosed that al-Mawla had been a detainee, a tranche of not too long ago launched interrogation experiences shed new mild on his time in US custody.
The paperwork present the Iraqi man as keen to supply data to his captors.
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“Detainee appears to be extra cooperative with each session,” one of many experiences learn, referring to al-Mawla, including that he was “offering lots of data” about his associates within the terror group.
He appeared significantly keen to expose particulars about his rivals within the organizations. For instance, he drew maps of the compound utilized by Islamic State’s second-in-command, and in addition supplied the title of the terrorist’s private courier. US forces later killed the senior IS commander in a raid within the Iraqi metropolis of Mosul in 2008.
Al-Mawla additionally divulged the placement of the key headquarters of the fear teams’ media wing, and assisted with artists’ sketches of high-priority suspects. He even recognized eating places that his fellow IS members frequented.
It’s not clear when the long run IS chief was launched from custody, however the final interrogation experiences mentioning him are dated July 2008. By then Mawla had stopped being cooperative, and paperwork from the time counsel that he had been led to consider that he could be rewarded for serving to his captors.
Like his predecessor, al-Qurashi has been laborious to trace down. Unconfirmed experiences emerged final 12 months that he had been nabbed by Iraqi intelligence officers, however it seems that the high-value goal remains to be on the run.
