Baghdad-INA
Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency-FIIA announced on Tuesday the arrest of suspects accused in terrorism-related cases and offenses involving threats to social peace in Baghdad.
The agency said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that, “In two separate operations carried out by the Baghdad/Karkh Intelligence and Counterterrorism Directorate, supported by intensive intelligence efforts and precise field surveillance, a suspect involved in a shooting incident targeting journalists and media personnel in an area of Baghdad's Karkh district was arrested.”
It added that, “In a separate operation, personnel from the same directorate arrested a suspect who had written tribal threat messages on a house in Baghdad's Karkh district,” noting that “both operations were carried out pursuant to judicial arrest warrants issued under Article 4 of the Anti-Terrorism Law.”
It added that “the suspects’ statements were formally recorded as confessions in preparation for their presentation before the judiciary,” stressing that it remains committed to continuing its intelligence efforts to pursue anyone attempting to destabilize security or threaten citizens, and to protect social peace.