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Kurdish, Iraqi forces arrest Daesh financiers — coalition
By AFP - Oct 11,2018 - Last updated at Oct 11,2018
WASHINGTON — Ten members of a key financial network for Daesh have been arrested in Iraq, the US-led coalition fighting the militants announced on Thursday.
Iraqi commandos and Kurdish counterterrorism forces arrested the members of the Al Rawi network in operations October 7-9 in Baghdad and Erbil in northern Iraq, the coalition said in a statement.
According to the coalition commander, US army Lieutenant General Paul LaCamera, the arrests “deal a major blow to the desperate attempts by Daesh to reemerge in Iraq”.
“Those who provide support to Daesh, in any way, will face the consequences,” he said.
Fawaz Muhammad Jubayr Al Rawi, who headed the network, was killed in June 2017 during a strike in Albu Kamal in eastern Syria.
The US Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on Al Rawi and his company in 2016.
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