Senior Al Qaeda operative Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi captured ~ in custody at Gitmo....

The Fourth Rail ^ | April 27, 2007 12:06 PM | Bill Roggio

[b4its2late]

Well.....another connection with Saddam and al-Queda.....

There's got to be some kind of mistake in that somewhere, at least where liberals come from.....

[Adder]

Abd?

How the hayell do you pronounce “Abd”? And what kind of mother would name her kid “Abd”?

[Jim Noble]

Got the panties on his head yet?

[Allegra]

Don’t forget ....Nancy Pelosi says.... "there are no al-Queda in Iraqi"....

She really said that???

What an idiot.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From a link on the other thread...:

Secular Baathist/Islamic extremist divide overcome repeatedly in Iraq

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For a regime long said to be sharply opposed to radical Islamic groups the secular Baath Party that formerly ruled Iraq has seen a conspicuously large number of its members caught in close collaboration with al Qaeda and other Islamic groups in post-invasion Iraq.

A recent arrest in Mosul identified a former Saddam Fedayeen leader as an insurgent leader responsible for al Qaeda/foreign fighter camps in Syria.

On March 23, the Tactical Report, an online Middle East intelligence service, reported that a former Saddam Hussein officer was appointed as an al Qaeda leader to set up attacks on Iraqi oil sites.

In addition to these "new converts" a number of older stories on the same topic were passed along to www.regimeofterror.com.

One story, from the Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat translated by a reader at Powerlineblog notes that one of the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's top men, Omar Hadid, was a former personal body guard of Saddam Hussein and had trained with al Qaeda in Afghanistan before fighting against coalition forces in Fallujah and elsewhere. Hadid, according to an al Qaeda biography after his death, also had a relative who was an official for Iraq's Intelligence Services and worked with Hadid on postwar operations. It should also be noted that, according to Knight-Ridder news services, Hadid's background included outright conflicts with Saddam Hussein's regime though he testified to the country's move away from secular restraints after the first Gulf War.

As previously detailed in a piece at The American Thinker by Ray Robison, the fighting in Fallujah a number of years back also saw the teaming up of many members of Saddam Hussein's former Republican Guard and foreign and domestic jihadist fighters.

Reportedly there were "scores of men" like Abu Mustafa (who) was one former military officer who told TIME that he spent his time in jail (post-invasion) "studying Salafi Islam and receiving lessons in jihad from bearded Iraqis and detainees who came from places like Syria and Saudi Arabia" before joining the jihadist fighters in Iraq.

Abu Ali was “Among those who have thrown their support behind the jihad is insurgent leader Abu Ali. A ballistic-missile specialist in Saddam's Fedayeen militia, he fought U.S. troops during the invasion and has served as a resistance commander ever since, organizing rocket attacks on the green zone, the headquarters of the U.S. administration in Baghdad. When interviewed by TIME last fall, he spoke of a vain hope that Saddam would return and re-establish a Baathist regime.” How Ali pictured a "secular" leader tolerating the type of violent Islamic extremism that Ali and others had helped spread in Iraq is quite a paradox.

One of the many anti coalition groups fighting in Iraq, called "Battalions of Islamic Holy War",
whose leaders also met with TIME magazine, was "founded by frontline officers from Saddam's intelligence services and the Republican Guard who once shunned terrorist attacks that killed innocent Iraqis" later represented a "significant Iraqi wing of al-Zarqawi's network." The Senate Intelligence Committee's report in 2004 revealed some intelligence that predicted these sorts of relationships.

These additions add to an already sizeable list of ex-Baathists/Saddam loyalists who sided with Islamic/jihadist fighters and al Qaeda in Iraq. While it is certainly possible that many of these religious conversions and new relationships were initiated post-invasion, drawn together by the common enemy of U.S. led forces in Iraq, it is unlikely that the countless (likely hundreds) remnants of Hussein's secular regime did not have at least some kind of a foundation for a relationship with these groups prior to March 2003. The type of trust and confidence necessary to give assets including money, weapons, arms, safehouses and training and reciprocal placement of Baathists into al Qaeda leadership positions only leads an outside observer to conclude that the two sides shared common grievances, common goals and common beliefs.

It has been 4 years since Operation Iraqi Freedom began and many of these relations that have been discovered post-invasion give cause for re-thinking prewar assumptions that secular Baathists wouldn't cooperate with Islamic militant/terrorist groups, just as some in the government had predicted as being possible prior to invasion, contrasting the conventional wisdom of then and now.

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• Islam
• Republican Guard

Posted by Mark Eichenlaub on April 8, 2007

[bill1952]

Move to America.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks:

***************************Profile**********************

Profile: Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi

Profile: Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi

The Pentagon has described Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, who has been detained and transferred to Guantanamo Bay, as a trusted lieutenant of al-Qaeda leaders Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi's role in Iran was a key interest of the US

The US said Mr Hadi, whose real name was Nashwan abd al-Razzaq abd al-Baqi, was arrested as he tried to return to Iraq.

However, no other details have been released on his capture.

A US intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the BBC that Mr Hadi had a long-standing and deep awareness of al-Qaeda's training activities and operational planning.

Mr Hadi, a man with a reputation for being a skilled and intelligent commander, had been in CIA custody since late 2006, the official said.

US intelligence services were particularly interested in his activities in relation to Iran, he said.

It believes in addition to supporting terrorist activities in Iraq, Mr Hadi was involved in "causing problems in Iran as well", he said.

Al-Hadi also met with al-Qaeda members in Iran and believed they should be doing more with the fight Pentagon Who's who in al-Qaeda

Mr Hadi wanted Iranian al-Qaeda operatives to be more aggressive in their attacks in Iraq and possibly in Iran as well, the official said.

Mr Hadi has cooperated during interrogation, providing insights into al-Qaeda's command and control structure, the official said.

Shura Council

Mr Hadi was born in Mosul, Iraq, in 1961, the Pentagon said.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was believed one of Mr Hadi's key links

He was formerly a major in the Iraqi army in the 1980s.

The US said he was in Afghanistan for 15 years, but that he had been a member of al-Qaeda "since the late 1990s".

Prior to the suicide plane attacks on the US in September 2001, Mr Hadi was a member of the 10-strong Shura Council - the advisory body to Bin Laden.

Mr Hadi was also said to be a member of al-Qaeda's Military Committee, which oversaw the group's operations and training.

The Pentagon said he was a direct link between al-Qaeda leaders and the Taleban in organising attacks on US forces in Afghanistan.

Later he was also believed to be a key link between Bin Laden and the head of the group in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who has since been killed.

Mr Hadi was also alleged to have been involved in plots to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and an unnamed UN official.

[Dog]

CNN Headline News just reported he has been CIA custody since 2006.....wow.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the BBC link just above:

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Mr Hadi, a man with a reputation for being a skilled and intelligent commander, had been in CIA custody since late 2006, the official said.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More from the BBC report above:

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Mr Hadi wanted Iranian al-Qaeda operatives to be more aggressive in their attacks in Iraq and possibly in Iran as well, the official said.

Mr Hadi has cooperated during interrogation, providing insights into al-Qaeda's command and control structure, the official said.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See above.....more ....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See above ....

[Dog]

He talked his head off.

How many pairs of Fruit of the Loom did we ruin to get this info.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We need an address to send replacements....I have a lot ( need replacing ) I would gladly donate to such a worthy cause....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We are starting a collection for replacement undies since they have surely used up a lot of pairs already....we’ve been working on him since late 2006.

[PA-RIVER]

Use the Pink Panties with flowers, this guy has to talk!

[SierraWasp]

Just give ‘em a thong, formerly worn by a big fat PORKER!!!

[SierraWasp]

How about some thong underwear previously worn in the barnyard by swine? I mean some really fineswine!!!

[Steve_Seattle]

And why was this SOB taken alive? Before we know it, the Dems will give him the rights of a U.S. citizen, he’ll sue Bush, be awarded $30,000,000 damages, and be playing golf with O.J. and Susan McDougal. Then he’ll go back to Iraq and start blowing up our troops again.

[MEG33]

Good News!