Iraqi Sunni armed group. Arabic name: Saraya al-Mujahideen. Has been fighting against the USA and its allies under appeals of the radical Islam, Jihad against the unfaithful. The group kidnapped a Brazilian engineer Joao Jose Vasconcelos (on January 31, 2005); American soldier John Adam (on February 3, 2005); two German engineers (on April 9, 2006). The group had also committed their other armed operations. It uses the black Jihad flag with the Quran’s aphorisms on both its top and bottom.
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