Leader in Naqshabandiya Movement, 9 other elements, arrested

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi Interior Ministry’s Rapid Deployment Forces (RDF) has arrested a leader in the Naqshabandiya Movement and nine of its elements on Sunday, the semi-official al-Iraqiya TV Satellite Network reported. “An RDF force has arrested the Major-General of the Naqshabandiya Movement, Qaid Shehab al-Douri, nephew of Iraq‘s former rulinng Revolution Command Council’s Assistant Chairman, under form President Saddam Hussein’s rule, Izzat al-Douri, and nine of the movement’s members,” the Channel reported. Al-Naqshabandiay Movement is one of the armed groups that fought the Iraqi government troops and the Multinational Forces in Iraq, after the downfall of the former Iraqi regime in 2003, and it is believed that it was established by Izzat al-Douri, demanded by the Iraqi and American troops in Iraq since 7 years. The RDP, on 13/6/2010, had arrested Izzat al-Douri’s Assistant, Ahmed Shehab al-Douri, in al-Dour township, east of Tikrit, the center of Salah El-Din Province, who had been the Commander of al-Naqashabandiya Movement in Iraq. . SKH/SR 3