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Jaysh Muhammad al-Fatih (Arabic: جيش محمد الفاتح, romanized: Jaysh Muḥammad al-Fātiḥ, lit. 'Army of Muhammad the Conqueror') was an Iraqi militant group that is both politically and religiously motivated. The politically motivated faction within JM was primarily made up of former Ba'athist members mainly from the Sunni region. Many of the people who had enjoyed a special status during the leadership of Saddam Hussein, were from Tikrit, which is in turn within an area of Iraq where the Arab population is mostly Sunni.