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Zarqawi Successor "In Egypt Jail"

by Open-Publishing - Friday 7 July 2006
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Zarqawi Successor "In Egypt Jail"
Aljazeera + Agencies
Thursday 06 July 2006, 13:59 Makka Time, 10:59 GMT

Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the purported successor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is in an Egyptian prison and not Iraq, a lawyer has claimed.

Egyptian newspaper Al-Masri al-Yawm has quoted Mamduh Ismail as saying he met al-Muhajir, also known as Sharif Hazaa, or Abu Ayub al-Masri, in Tura prison in Cairo, where he has been held for seven years.

"Sharif Hazaa [al-Muhajir] is in Tura prison, and I met him two days ago while I was visiting some of my clients," Ismail, a lawyer known for defending Islamist groups, told the newspaper.

Al-Muhajir is on the "most wanted" list issued by the Iraqi government last week. The US military in Iraq has put a $5million price on his head.

The US army media centre in Iraq said: "We cannot comment on the news that ... al-Masri is in an Egyptian prison and not in Iraq, we have to clarify that from the Egyptian government."

The US military had announced after the death of al-Zarqawi that al-Masri had been appointed the leader of al-Qaeda’s organisation in Iraq.

The military said al-Masri was born and brought up in Egypt. He then went to Afghanistan, where he trained in bomb-making before going to Iraq in 2002.

Forum posts

  • Interesting. If this is true and no one has stolen al-Muhajir’s identity and there is no problem of two people with the same set of names than the US needs to look at how it obtained its information about Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s successor. If the information was obtained from an unverifiable internet source, the source should not have been publicized until verified or should have been noted as from an unverifibale source. If the information was obtained from torture, the US needs to remember that infomation obtained from torture is by nature unreliable. Torture should never be used to obtain information for both humanitarian reasons and the unreliability of the information obtained.

    If the information was invented as an excuse to continue an alledged war on terror than that is one more crime to add to the list already committed by the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld administration.

  • Didn’t the military say that in the latest audiotape from Usama, that he personally named this guy the successor to Zarqawi? Why would he name someone who is in prison? Is it because Usama’s dead and the psy-ops is trying to invent a new boogie man. Makes you go HMMMM.

  • So he’s kinda like those 19 "terrorists" who "flew" planes into buildings(7-9 of whom are still alive).
    Those wwwwascally AAArabs!