Abdul Nasser Qirdash, once tipped to exchange Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as head of ISIS, was arrested on Wednesday, May 20.
“Today, the terrorist named Abdulnasser al-Qirdash, the candidate to succeed the criminal al-Baghdadi, was arrested. [The arrest] came after accurate intelligence,” the statement from the Iraqi National intelligence read, consistent with a report in Al-Arabiya.
“He served because the head of the commission authorised by the terrorist organisation Daesh, and he worked with the organisation as a pacesetter from the time of the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi until the battles of al-Baghouz that he led himself.”
Details on how he was captured or where the operation happened haven't been revealed yet.
Former head of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died in October 2019 when US forces stormed his compound in northwestern Syria. He detonated his own suicide vest during the targeted raid on his lair in Syria's Idlib province and killed three of his children within the blast.
After Baghdadi's death it had been reported that Muhammad al-Mawla 'The Professor', was to require over because the caliph.
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