Abdullah Sabawi, dubbed the "grandnephew" of the executed dictator Saddam Hussein by Iraqi media, was extradited on Wednesday, a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Lebanese security forces extradited a descendant of Saddam Hussein's nephew to Iraq on charges of membership in ISIS and involvement in the Camp Spieker massacre. Many former Baathist leaders that Baghdad wants have taken to Jordan and Lebanon to hide from persecution.
A Lebanese judicial source said Sabawi "was detained on June 11" following an Interpol notice calling for his arrest over his alleged involvement in the massacre. The Sabawi family had rejected the charges and claimed that he was in Yemen when the killings happened, a claim that KurdSat English could not verify.
Abdullah Yasser, born in 1994, was arrested in Lebanon on June 11 on charges of participating in the Spiker massacre and committing war crimes in Iraq.
Abdullah Yasser Sabawi wanted in connection with the Spiker massacre, has been arrested in Lebanon and will be returned to Iraq, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
On June 12, 2014, ISIS killed about 1,700 cadets at the Spyker military base in Tikrit, the capital of Saladin province. The cadets were gathered and shot one by one on the banks of the Tigris River, per a video released by ISIS. The Spieker mass murder perpetrators are either on the loose or unknown, though Iraq has executed several terrorists in connection with the massacre.