INA exclusively publishes how the Falcons cell penetrated the most dangerous ISIS leaders

Baghdad-INA

The Falcons Intelligence Cell revealed on Tuesday, the details of its operations to penetrate the most dangerous ISIS leaderships, which stopped many suicide bombings that almost targeted civilians and security forces during the year 2014, while indicating that it has many symbolic names of sources from within the terrorist gangs.
 
Penetrating the ISIS gangs’ security
 
The first breach of the terrorist gang leaderships occurred through the recruitment of those close to Abu Nasser, the incharge of the Southern Province, and special detachments working to target the southern governorates (Dhi Qar, Maysan, Basra, and Wasit).
 
 
The former head of the Falcons Cell and current head of the National Security Service, Abu Ali Abdul Karim Al-Basri, told the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “the enemy’s first security line at the level of the first-line leadership in ISIS was hacked in 2014, after more than ten years of targeting Baghdad and the other provinces with hundreds of bombs and suicide operations, this confrontation will be evidence of the cell’s success in penetrating the security of the terrorist organization and will establish a new stage to deceive the organization by controlling its terrorist operations planned by the cell."

 
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He added that " thoughts are intertwined and events are accelerating, and we are still in Baghdad despite the passage of 25 minutes after receiving the information from our reliable source, and we do not have any details about the type and color of the vehicle ," noting that "at 11 o'clock of the same day, we obtained the information and the code through which we were able to find out the path of the vehicles and their location and our only means to follow up and investigate the operation without blood was a code in vast distances, the matter that kept worrying us every single second and confusing our work, which increased our fears.


He added, "Ideas are intertwined, events are accelerating, and we are still in Baghdad, despite 25 minutes having passed since receiving the information from our reliable source. We do not have any details about the type and color of the two wheels," noting that "at 11 o'clock on the same day, we obtained the information and the code through which we were able to dismantle A path for the two-wheelers and their whereabouts, and our only weapon to follow up and investigate the operation without blood, a blade dangling in spaces that worry us every second and confuse our work, which has increased our fears.

He continued: "through hard work, we found that one of the two vehicles headed towards the Nasiriyah highway in the AL-bataha area reaching 200 km from the Sidra checkpoint, and there is no trace of the second vehicle, we had been left with less than three hours away from sunset," he said, explaining that "crossing of the two vehicles through Rumaila checkpoint, 100 km north of Basra means terrible explosions and innocent blood will be shed in the target area in the popular Jumhouryia market.

Preparing for a security operation
 
He stated: “I inquired in a phone call about the position of the cell and its preparations, and I was informed that they were fully prepared and waiting for the decision,” noting that “after communication, I directed to prepare, make technical and combat preparations, and go to Basra."

Al-Basri stated: "We were running out of time, and the best solution was to use a military plane to transport the technical and combat team to Basra Airport. Within minutes, the directive reached the plane, which was located at Al-Hussein Airstrip, 500 meters away, awaiting the force with strict instructions."

Al-Basri stated, “Events are taking place at an insane speed between a terrorist killer and a force to rescue innocent people in Basra less than an hour later, the plane made an emergency landing at Basra Airport, and the force was waiting for two vehicles belonging to the Basra cell, as the team needed 30 minutes to reach Rumaila checkpoint. At that time, orders were issued to form two technical teams consisting of 3 people, each team carrying a technical device for monitoring."

He pointed out that "while the Falcons Cell team was heading towards the specified location in Rumaila checkpoint to intercept the two vehicles, the control line update team discovered that there was another person communicating with the first terrorist, and that the second wanted terrorist had been captured, so the two vehicles became under technical surveillance, as the first left Batha the second was still in the city, and after a short period, the team received information that the route of the two vehicles was in one place."

He stressed: "We have achieved the most important step, which is the additional time for a smooth and orderly movement towards Sidra checkpoint before sunset (the arena of confrontation with ISIS face to face)."

Al-Basri describes the complicated situation on the Basra section of the highway as a struggle against time that passes faster than explosive-laden tires on the highway, adding, “We were informed of the need for our action to be in the form of professional technical reconnaissance groups for monitoring and follow-up, and others for confrontation and arrest."

 
Chasing the two explosive-laden vehicles
 
The head of the hunting team, chased the two vehicles. The first reconnaissance unit took up a position 3 km north of the Rumaila checkpoint, while a technical combat force was deployed inside it, another force took a position south of the checkpoint to cut off the road for the other vehicles if the two explosive-laden vehicles entered the killing zone."

head of the hunting team added, “The two bombs with unknown specifications are within the checkpoint of Rumaila. In contrast, the Falcons Cell team and its technical and combat groups are in the designated place to intercept the two bombs,” explaining that “any error in calculating timings and technical monitoring generates disaster and bloodshed for innocents, whether inside or outside the country control or target location."

He pointed out that "the two vehicles were late, and it later became clear that they had stopped at a gas station. Meanwhile, after a few minutes, the first vehicle passed, followed by the second vehicle, and the road to the north and south of the checkpoint was cut off," explaining that "within less than a minute, the two vehicles became under monitoring, that the first vehicle is driven by a man was later revealed to be from the people of Basra, the terrorist Sultan Mahdi, with the sound of songs and a pack of cigarettes for cover, while the second vehicle is driven by the terrorist Muhammad Abdullah, who covers his head with a piece of green cloth suggesting that he perform tayammum in the holy shrines and to camouflage, as believed by the terrorists is a way to deceive members of the security services."

A rare preemptive operation

He explained, "In a rare pre-emptive operation to avoid any misconduct that would raise suspicions, the two terrorists were controlled and arrested within a few seconds, ending the most dangerous terrorist operation in its beginning, and the two booby-trapes were dismantled by a team of Basra intelligence officers in a safe location close to the checkpoint," explaining that "the terrorists' confessions continued opening a quick path that led to thwarting subsequent operations by obtaining information that led to the interception of a large number of these terrorist operations, which placed the Falcons intelligence cell in front of a historic security challenge. It succeeded in obtaining a terrorist source and penetrating the leaderships of the terrorist organization, the Falcons cell had many symbolic sources names from within the terrorist organization and from the recruits affiliated with the Falcons cell, the most prominent of whom was the martyr Captain Harith Al-Sudani."


Taken together, these methods reflect a distinctive feature of Iraqi intelligence work, which does not rely solely on recruiting influential agents to obtain direct and sensitive information, as much as it relies on flooding the counter-espionage departments of ISIS gangs with hundreds of small-scale espionage operations, many of which appear worthless. The final achievement of the falcons is often the sum of what is extracted from these slow and complex processes, which reflects the traditional human characteristics of ISIS, which is famous for terrorism and murder.