Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Qadimi announced today (Monday) that his country's security forces had captured Sami Jasmine, who was the deputy to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and served as the murderer of the murderous terrorist organization.
Prime Minister Kadimi wrote on the social network Twitter that Jasmine was captured during an operation across Iraq's borders and brought to Baghdad to be prosecuted.
The Iraqi prime minister did not specify the circumstances of the operation or when it was conducted.
An ISIS video commemorating an Islamic State activist forcing prisoners to dig their graves,
"This is one of the most difficult and complex operations that our forces have carried out outside the borders of our country and it included gathering intelligence in a foreign country," Kadimi wrote.
A senior Iraqi security official told the Washington Post that Jasmine, known as War Haji Hamid, was a loyalist of terrorist leader Musab al-Zarqawi - and after his assassination took part in the establishment of the Islamic State along with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2012.
Although the Islamic State organization in Iraq has been defeated and does not hold any inhabited territory, its people are still waging a guerrilla war against Iraqi government forces and northern Iraqi Kurds.
Last week, ISIS members sabotaged a shane station and caused a widespread power outage in the north of the country.