Suspected Iraqi mastermind in DHL attack dies in US custody

AFP ^ | 12/30/03

[saquin]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The chief suspect in an attack on a DHL aircraft over the Iraqi capital last month died in US custody after soldiers wounded him in a firefight, the US military said.

US troops Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt also said troops had arrested 101 suspected combatants in 29 raids and 40 offensive operations over the last 24 hours.

"Ziad Sahid, a former director of military intelligence... suspected of responsibility for attacks on coalition forces to include the downing of the DHL jetliner, died in a coalition medical facility of wounds received during a targeted raid on his complex," Kimmitt told reporters.

Sahid died Saturday, he said. But it was not clear when troops raided his house in the course of its week-old Operation Iron Grip, a mission combining heavy weapons fire on suspected rebel positions and sweeps for top suspects around Baghdad.

A DHL airliner was hit by a surface-to-air missile in late November, prompting the cancellation of civilian flights to Iraq, although the German-owned international courier has since resumed services.

Thirteen insurgents were rounded up in Operation Iron Grip on Monday, Kimmitt said.

Meanwhile, in the hotspot town of Baquba, the US 4th Infantry Division captured eight or nine men, one of whom was a staff general for intelligence under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, a US officer told AFP.

The officer identified the men captured in the town northeast of Baghdad as members of the "al-Bandar terrorist cell" and said the general was recruiting "ex-soldiers for anti-coalition opposition."

No further information was immediately available on the so-called Bandar group.

[SAMWolf]

AWWWWWWWWW! Break my heart. NOT!!!!!

[Rollee]

They tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, and that's it hanging on the shed.

[Servant of the 9]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1049050/posts

Well that is the story anyway.
He could just as well be in Egypt being interogated by a whole different method. People who are already 'dead' have no rights to worry about.

So9

[USF]

What a shame... wonder if he still gets his raisins?

[SolutionsOnly]

awww, too bad..

[HP8753]

Feed him to the pigs !!

[CaptRon]

Where do I send flowers?

[Quilla]

Just damn.

[Normal4me]

Firefight? Good riddance.

[TYVets]

Perhaps Sadam is being interogated by a whole different method.

One is his methods ?

[DoctorMichael]

Good.

[Paleo Conservative]

You beat me.

[prairiebreeze]

It would be nice if we could have gotten some intel out of him before he met his virgins.

Prairie

[fso301]

The chief suspect in an attack on a DHL aircraft over the Iraqi capital last month died in US custody

Staircases sure are dangerous.

[Semper Paratus]

Staircases sure are dangerous.

Anybody here seen what happened to him?

CHORUS: "He Fell!"

[Kay Soze]

ha ha ha ha!

He fell down a flight of stairs 32 times!

Ha ha ha!

[Pagey]

"Ziad Sahid, a former director of military intelligence... died in a coalition medical facility..."

Congratulations to our Armed Forces for taking out one more Terrorist.