Zarqawi kin reportedly bombed shrine in Iraq [details on interrogations of top Zarqawi lieutenants]

Newsday.com ^ | February 7, 2005 | MOHAMAD BAZZI

[Boot Hill]

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's father-in-law carried out a suicide bombing in the Shia holy city of Najaf that killed a leading Iraqi cleric, according to two senior Kurdish intelligence officials.

The attack in August 2003 killed more than 85 people, including Ayatollah Muhammad Bakr al-Hakim, who led Iraq's largest Shia political party. The bombing was carried out with an explosives-laden ambulance driven by Yassin Jarad, the father of al-Zarqawi's second wife, the Kurdish officials said.

Jarad had slipped into Iraq several weeks before the bombing from the Jordanian town of Zarqa, where al-Zarqawi was born, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. At least a dozen other suicide bombers from al-Zarqawi's hometown have infiltrated Iraq over the past 18 months, the officials said.

[Boot Hill]

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Thanks to poster "Dog" for the heads-up on this article.

--Boot Hill

[Boot Hill]

ping

[wagglebee]

BTTT!

[nuconvert]

Thanks for posting. I saw this on that other thread.
So, does this let Moqtada alSadr off the hook for this murder? Or does it mean he's working with Zarqawi?

[Boot Hill]

Not sure, maybe someone reading this will fill in that detail.

--Boot Hill

[scannell]

Don't you just love the in-laws?

[LegendHasIt]

Too bad he didn't blow himself up earlier.... Say a couple of years before his scumbag son was born.

[LegendHasIt]

Oh, Duh--- IN-LAW...
I'd better learn to read.

[SandRat]

Now that's gonna win the terrs some friends, NOT!

Chapter 1 of the book "How to lose friends and Make Intense Blood Enemies!"

[GSlob]

Well, it seems like Zarqawi hit upon a cunning way of getting rid of in-laws. Give credit where due.

[Dog]

Thanks for posting the thread Boot.

[Coop]

But the level of detail being provided to interrogators by al-Zarqawi's operatives suggests Iraqi and U.S. officials are closing in on the militant and unraveling some of his security procedures.

Let's hope and pray it's sooner rather than later.

And I wouldn't mind seeing a few public executions of these scumbag terrorist lieutenants, either - the ones they've pumped dry (intel-wise).

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[RushCrush]

Uh oh, sounds like this is a holy shrine in a holy mosque in a holy city. Not good Mr. Terrorist!

[hchutch]

True. I kinda prefer to also take a bit of a "Los Pepes" approach, though. You cannot beat the efficientcy of the CONOPS that Los Pepes used against the Medellin drug cartel, and it works, I might add.

[LYSandra]

if it's such an honor to blow yourself up why hasn't this scumbag done the honors himself yet instead of sending others?!

[SunkenCiv]

"At least a dozen other suicide bombers from al-Zarqawi's hometown have infiltrated Iraq over the past 18 months, the officials said."

Sure would be a shame if Zarqa met with a little 'accident'....

[USNBandit]

This is no big deal, my father-in-law gets bombed all the time.

[nikos1121]

I'm curious it seems that Iraqi interrogation methods are quite effective. I wonder what they did to make Zarqawi top lieutenants sing like a canary?

nikos