[Allegra]

His name translates to "Our Next Bomb Crater."

[steve-b]

[kellynla]

Fast Facts on Abu Ayyub al-Masri:

Abu Ayyub al-Masri is an Egyptian with ties to Usama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri.

Abu Ayyub al-Masri is an Afghanistan-trained explosives expert.

Abu Ayyub al-Masri is a key figure in the Al Qaeda in Iraq network.

Abu Ayyub al-Masri was responsible for facilitating the movement of foreign fighters from Syria into Baghdad.

U.S. Military: Abu Ayyub al-Masri has been a terrorist since 1982.

Abu Ayyub al-Masri was involved with Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which was led by al-Zawahri.

Raids in April and May in southern Baghdad recovered material confirming al-Masri's high-level involvement in the facilitation of foreign fighters.

Al-Masri's ability to exert leadership over Al Qaeda cells remains unclear.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,199654,00.html

[keat]

I vote him most likely to die of internal bleeding.

[mad puppy]

I wonder how much of this is true and how much of this is spin from the CIA? Some day, years from now, I hope some report that comes out about how the US manipulated this situation how it ultimately lead to some huge advantage.

[Marine_Uncle]

With such high attrition rates for AQ and other factions being established at this point, and for all we know, things may well be in the works to TD hundreds more of them in many simultaneous raids, A/G attacks, that they could find people that wanted to run AQ Iraq from inside Iraq.
Perhaps as DevSix mentioned in another thread, the successor may have to limit themself to operating out of Syria. Which of course will limit their operations considerably.

[exit82]

I'm glad we identified him.

I'll be more glad when we identify his body.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Somebody please program his coordinates into the Predator ASAP.

[MD_Willington_1976]

The next big ticket on the "Terrorist power-ball" Wonder who gets the 25 mil for the last guy...

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

Is there a pool for how long it will take to get him?

Michael Frazier

[Enchante]

I vote him "most likely to enjoy a JDAM up his butt"


Interesting how another guy with ties to al-Zawahiri and Al Qaeda just happens to be in Iraq and just happens to be in line to succeed the dearly departed scumbag. But of course everyone knows that Iraq is merely a distraction from and not a central front in the War on Terror and Al Qaeda........