BAGHDAD — Iraqi security services on Sunday publish the names of 60 people wanted on suspicion of belonging to the Islamic State terror group, Al-Qaeda or the Baath Party of late dictator Saddam Hussein.
The list, seen by AFP, includes the name of Saddam’s daughter Raghad, who lives in Jordan.
An Iraqi man looks at a list of the country’s sixty most wanted people on February 4, 2018, in Baghdad. (AFP Photo/Sabah Arar)
It also features 28 suspected IS jihadists, 12 from Al-Qaeda and 20 Baathists, giving details of the roles they allegedly play in their organizations, crimes of which they are suspected and in most cases, photographs.
All are Iraqis apart from Maan Bashour, a Lebanese man accused of recruiting fellow citizens to fight in Iraq.
The name of elusive IS head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is absent from the list. A senior security official contacted by AFP declines to explain why.
— AFP
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