Local sources in Nineveh province disclosed that the body of the commander of ISIL's females battalion, nom de guerre Um Qazanfar, who went missing last week has been found in the Tigris River near the city of Mosul.
"Um Qazanfar was
one of the highest-ranking members of the ISIL who was very close to the terrorist group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," Arabic-language media quoted an unnamed source as saying.
"She was also
the first female intelligence commander in charge of collecting security information from the opponents of the ISIL in Mosul," the report said.
ISIL had earlier declared that Um Qazanfar's disappearance was "suspicious".
The ISIL found Um Qazanfar's dead body near the fourth bridge over the Tigris River in the center of Mosul.
In
early August, the local sources in Nineveh province disclosed that
masked men attacked a house in the center of Mosul where ISIL's female terrorists worked, and abducted a number of them.
"Over 25 women,
some from Libya, Yemen and European countries, were working in ISIL's Hasaba (monitoring-security system) in a house in Mosul city center when unknown men attacked the house and kidnapped them," the Arabic-language media quoted an unnamed military source as saying on Tuesday.
No group had claimed responsibility for the abduction yet.
Comment: Coincidentally, a female U.S. intelligence officer was rescued by the Turks on their border with Syria after she was wounded while "on mission" in Syria
in early August. Wonder if she was actually 'on mission' in Iraq, then crossed into Syria?
Turkish Border Patrol Finds US Agent After Two Days of Searches by Military (Sputnik, August 7)
Turkish border patrol found on Sunday a US intelligence officer who US and Turkish military had been searching for two days, Turkish media reported.
Injured while on mission in Syria, the officer asked her command for rescue and headed to the Syrian-Turkish border, the Hurriyet newspaper said. Reportedly, US and Turkish military launched a search and rescue operation, involving helicopters and drones, but failed to find the intelligence agent.
On Sunday, the woman was found by Turkish patrol officers near the Syrian-Turkish border and brought to the Incirlik base. Her condition is unknown, the newspaper added.
Update: The plot thickens:
Sputnik Exclusive: 'Russian Female Spy' Causes Stir in Daesh Ranks
A local source in Mosul told Sputnik that Daesh declared search for a woman named Um Hafsa, who was living in the ranks of Daesh as a spy and was passing information to Iraqi intelligence services.
The source explained that Um Hafsa has Russian roots, but her exact name is not known. Details of her links to Iraqi intelligence also remain unknown.
"She was married to a Daesh militant in Mosul. They lived in the Seth area, when she suddenly disappeared, along with three other women from Daesh," the source said.
According to him, the militants in Mosul arrested dozens of people, who somehow could be associated with her or are in contact with her. The terrorists realized that she was an undercover spy after she left her apartment an hour before an air strike by the coalition struck her house.
When militants carried out interrogations of the surviving civilians it turned out that Um Hafsa warned residents about the air strike before leaving and asked all the residents to leave their houses immediately.
She warned everyone except the militants. In addition to this, Um Hafsa was the organizer of setting young Yezidi girls free by allowing them to escape sexual slavery from Daesh. The girls were taken as slaves following an attack on the town of Sinjar in 2014.
According to local residents, the Seth area and its surroundings are filled with Daesh militant patrols that are searching and interrogating local residents in order to find any evidence regarding whereabouts of the escaped spy.
does she get the virgins.