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Al Qaeda Announces Zarqawi's Successor
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An apparent al Qaeda website announced the successor to Abu Musa'ab al-Zarqawi today, a name different than the one U.S. military forces had cited last week. Abu Hamza al-Muhajir was described as "hoping to continue what Abu Musa'ab has started."
According to a translation by the ABC News bureau in Baghdad of the posting by the media department for the Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq, "The word of the Mujahideen Shura Council has gathered in one word to choose sheik Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir to be the successor for the deceased sheik Abu Musa'ab Zarqawi to head al Qaeda.
Sheik Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir, is a good brother, ex-member in Jihad with a lot of religious information. We ask God to lead him and us to the right path, and to accomplish what sheik Zarqawi has started."
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Abu Hamza al-Muhajer aka Abu Ayyub al-Masri,
Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell said the man he thinks is a possible successor to Zarqawi as leader of the shadowy terrorist group known as al-Qaida in Iraq has been operating in Iraq longer than Zarqawi and that the two first met in Afghanistan.
He was referring to Abu Ayyub al-Masri, whom he described as an Egyptian-born terrorist leader.
Posted by: Bill Warner | Jun 12, 2006 1:41:45 PM
Anyone staging a global terrorist operation is an odd enough aaspiration as to defy logic for me.
But anyone who would stage a global, international terrorist operation who would publicly announce responsibility for their actions or publicly name it's membership or leadership is beyond any and all comprehensible logic.
Naming a decoy I could understand. But naming and putting a bullseye on the very people who are supposed to champion your cause???
Especially after the Zarqawi hit, that's gotta be a recipe for failure.
Then again, maybe someone is just throwing out decoys.
Could be them. Could be us.
But I find it very hard to believe that the actual al Quida leadership would or has been revealed as obviously as an announcement in the international press.
Posted by: zach | Jun 12, 2006 5:28:27 PM
US intelligence officials made a huge mistake on revealing how Zarqawi was tracked and eventully eliminated. This will only help the new leadership in avoiding those same mistakes (eg, not using communication tracking devices such as cell phones and other traceable voice communications) These extremists will be harder and hard to track and eliminate as time goes on.
Posted by: LL | Jun 12, 2006 8:30:21 PM
ABSOLUTELY STUPID FOR ANY AGENCY AND THE MEDIA TO REVEAL HOW WE CONDUCT THE EFFORT TO LOCATE, TRACK AND ATTACK TERRORIST LEADERS. JUST GIVES THE ENEMY ONE MORE LEG UP ON CONTINUING THEIR ATROCITIES.
Posted by: E. M. BROWNE | Jun 16, 2006 10:36:09 AM
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