Iraq received from Lebanon an Iraqi citizen presented by Baghdad as the grandson of one of the brothers of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, accused of participating in a massacre committed by the Islamic State in 2014.
The Iraqi Ministry of Interior said - in a statement - yesterday, Friday, that the formations of the Interpol police in the Arab and International Police Directorate at the Ministry of Interior succeeded, after an exceptional effort and intelligence tracking, in recovering the accused, called (YYS), from the Lebanese Republic.
An official told Agence France-Presse - on condition of anonymity - that Baghdad received Abdullah Al-Sabawi on Friday.
The source added that he "is considered one of the perpetrators of the Speicher (massacre)", which witnessed the execution of hundreds of soldiers by the Islamic State in 2014.
According to a Lebanese judicial source, Sabawi (born in 1994) was arrested "on June 11, 2022, under an Interpol arrest warrant at the request of an Iraqi, and he is accused of committing crimes and massacres in Iraq."
In response to a question by Agence France-Presse, the Sabawi family rejected these accusations, stressing that he was in Yemen at the time of the events.
The Speicher massacre is one of the worst massacres committed by ISIS;
In June 2014, after taking control of several cities in northern Iraq, ISIS elements kidnapped hundreds of young recruits from the Speicher base (north of Baghdad), then executed them, killing up to 1,700 of them, and some of the bodies were thrown into the Tigris River, while most of them were buried in Mass graves.
Iraqi courts have sentenced dozens of people to death for their involvement in this massacre, and their sentences were executed.