BAGHDAD – Iraqi security services on Sunday published the names of 60people wanted on suspicion of belonging to the Islamic State 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, wholives in Jordan.
It also features 28 suspected IS jihadists, 12 from Al-Qaeda and 20Baathists, giving details of the roles they allegedly play in theirorganisations, crimes of which they are suspected and in most cases,photographs.
All are Iraqis apart from Maan Bashour, a Lebanese man accused ofrecruiting fellow citizens to fight in Iraq.
The name of elusive IS head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is absent from the list. Asenior security official contacted by AFP declined to explain why.
“These are the terrorists most wanted by the judicial authorities and thesecurity services,” the official said. “This is the first time we publishthese names which, until now were secret.”
The IS fighters the document lists are accused of fighting in Iraq’s secondcity Mosul and the surrounding province of Nineveh, as well as in theprovinces of Kirkuk, Diyala and Anbar.
IS seized a third of Iraq’s territory during a lightning advance in 2014,before being beaten back by security forces backed by a United States-ledcoalition.
IS fighters on the list seen by AFP on Sunday are accused of murders,bombings, attacks on security forces, and the financing and transport ofweapons.