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A new audio leak published online on Saturday allegedly reveals a plan by a faction within Iraq's��Popular Mobilisation��Forces in which they abducted at least 14 mentally ill individuals from the streets, forcing them to wear explosives, to present them as��suicide bombers for��ISIS.��

Ali Fadhil, an Iraqi journalist living in the United States who had previously leaked audio clips , and senior other , leaked the new audio on his Twitter account.

In the latest audio leak, a dissident, named Karim Salim Karim, from Iran-backed Brigades of the Imams of Al-Baqi��(KAB),��told Fadhil that KAB, with the cooperation of senior army commanders in the Iraqi army in Diyala province, abducted at least 14 mentally-ill individuals off the streets to present them as��ISIS militants.

The dissident said the militias once kidnapped a mentally ill person selling fuel on the streets. The militia��allegedly forced the individual to ingest sleeping pills, wear��an explosive belt and handed him a weapon, then released��him��near a��checkpoint in Diyala.

"Then the militias opened gunfire on the mentally-ill person and detonated him as if he was an ISIS suicide bomber," the dissident said in the audio recording.����

فالح الفياض انت ما تستحق ان تسرح بنعاج اثنين والدليل بعض قادة الحشد يقتلون العراقيين والجيش بأسم الحشد وانت نايم متدري وما بيك خير تعدل قميصك .
حبيب المالكي سعد طعيس يفجر العراقيين ( المجانيين ) على انهم دlعش ويسرق و يخطف بعلم ضباط وزارة الدفاع بديالى

— Ali Fadhil _ علي فاضل (@ali_alifadhil)

According to , KAB "was established in late 2014 by Saad Taees Al-Tamini (aka Abu Mujahid Al-Tamimi and Jihad Al-Tamimi)" and the militia - formally part of PMF - is close to al-Maliki.��

The dissident further said in the audio leak that he left KAB after he refused orders to attack an Iraqi army barricade��in the Hamrin Mountains as part of a false-flag operation to suggest that ISIS is still active and that the Iraqi army cannot maintain the security of the area.��

In response to the audio leak, KAB immediately released a statement refuting the claims and describing them��as "fake". The military requested Mustafa al-Kadhimi, prime minister of Iraq's caretaker government, to file a legal case against Fadhil on charges of mocking the militia.��

رداً على التسـريبات التي نشرها علي فاضل لواء ائمة البقيع يصدرون بيانًا من ديالى

— Abdulateef Alhajwel (@Alhajwel1)

Meanwhile, on Monday, the Karkh second court in Baghdad stripped immunity from MP Ahmed Al-Jubouri, the former governor of Salahuddin, also known as Abu Mazen, on charges of "wasting public money."����

On 25 August, an audio leak by��Fadhil��in which Abu Mazen speaks over the phone with another person called Mohammed al-Hajaf.

During their conversation, al-Hajaf delivers a demand by a judge called Faisal al-Azawi to al-Jabouri to��appoint the judge��to the Iraqi criminal court, as well as��15 other people in the ministry of education, in exchange for bribes.

Al-Hajaf, in the recording, also said��that he had passed on around 300 million Iraqi dinars (around US$200,000)��to a judge named��Khalaf.

IS militants dominated large swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014, declaring a "caliphate" before Baghdad, backed by an international coalition, fought the organisation and declared victory against the fundamentalist group in late 2017.

But a low-level jihadist insurgency persists, particularly in rural areas north of Baghdad around the city of Kirkuk and in the eastern provinces of Diyala and Salaheddin.