Mosul police capture ISI leader

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A police force arrested a “prominent leader” of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) group was in charge of collecting money and blackmailing local residents, a police source in Ninewa said on Saturday. “A force from the Ninewa Police Department’s 7th Contingent arrested today (Dec. 25) Abbas Mohammed Amin al-Farahat in Tammuz 17 neighborhood, western Mosul, in accordance with Article 4 of the law on terrorism,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Farahat is a member of the ISI who used to charge owners of fuel stations, power generators, stores and trucks forced financial tributes on a monthly basis,” he added. Mosul, the capital city of the multi-ethnic violence-ridden province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 5