SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The Kurdistan Regio’s Counter-Terrorism Group (CTG) and the Iraqi National Intelligence Service arrested a criminal involved in the Camp Speicher massacre in 2014 by the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.
The CTG in a statement on Thursday revealed that they had launched a joint operation with the Iraqi National Intelligence Service.
As a result, Abdulkhalq Khaz’al Sultan was arrested who is already wanted by the court, according to the statement.
It also added that Sultan is involved in dozens of terror actions against the security forces in Iraq’s Salahadin governorate.
“He is one of the key perpetrators of the Camp Speicher massacre,” the statement said.
“The operation was launched after thorough surveillance of the wanted criminal. He has been handed to the justice,” the statement added.
The Camp Speicher massacre occurred on 12 June 2014, when the Islamic State killed between 1,095 to 1,700 Iraqi cadets in an attack on Camp Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq.
At the time of the massacre, there were between 5,000 and 100,000 unarmed cadets in the camp, and ISIS fighters selected the Shias and Christians for execution. The Iraqi government blamed the massacre on ISIS.
