Major General Abbas Ibrahim announced Friday that "the General Directorate of Lebanese Public Security was able to arrest Abdullah Yasser Sabawi Al-Hassan (Sabawi's grandson, Saddam Hussein's brother), who is wanted by the Iraqi judiciary and is accused of the Speicher crime in Tikrit, and of carrying out criminal operations that claimed the lives of thousands of innocent people." 

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Major General Ibrahim added in an interview with the Al-Iraqiya news channel that "the Lebanese security services have executed an Interpol warrant, and this is our duty towards our people in Iraq." 

He continued, "We work under international law, the judiciary, and respect exchange and criminals' recovery warrants especially with a brotherly country like Iraq," stressing that his country "rejects any impunity and supports the application of the law without any interference and pressure." 

The Tikrit Air Academy massacre (aka Speicher Massacre) was perpetrated by ISIS terrorists on June 12, 2014. Close to 2,000 students of The Tikrit Air Academy, north of Iraq, were killed in the massacre.

ISIS terrorists executed hundreds of unarmed Iraqi youths, and savagely mutilated the bodies of some. The massacre was recorded and published in order to spread fear among Iraqis.

An Iraqi court sentenced on June 27, 2021, nine people convicted of partaking in the massacre, noting that all the men in question confessed to having partaken in the crime and in the killing of a number of innocents as part of their terrorist agenda.