If we are going to talk about this guy, let's put a link to his WANTED Poster here:
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=masri
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060619-041656-5780r
Terror expert fleshes out Masri links
WASHINGTON, June 19 (UPI) -- The apparent successor to slain terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been heading Zarqawi's international networks, terrorism expert Alexis Debat said Monday.
Debat, a former French Defense Ministry official, a senior fellow at The Nixon Center and one of the leading authorities on Zarqawi, said Abu Ayyub al-Masri was put in charge of Zarqawi's overseas networks sometime in 2004.
Zarqawi ran two al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan in the 1990s, where he and al-Masri first met. From those camps, Zarqawi developed a personal network of fighters that is believed to be dispersed in the Middle East and Western Europe.
Debat said as many as 200 to 300 more fighters have trained under Zarqawi in Iraq and returned to their home countries.
According to Debat, al-Masri sent "envoys" all over the Middle East, North Africa and Europe to raise money and recruit international volunteers for the jihad in Iraq. The envoys apparently included a man named Yasser al-Misri, whom Algerian security services arrested in July 2005.
Al Masri is also suspected of playing a key role in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 bombings in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, which are thought linked to Egyptian elements close to Zarqawi.
Debat said al-Masri's apparent relationship with al-Qaida's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri suggests Zarqawi's networks will be more closely controlled by al-Qaida's leadership.
Al-Masri is said by the U.S. military to be in his thirties and was born and raised in Egypt. He joined the Egyptian Islamic Jihad in the 1980s, according to Debat.
There, al-Masri operated alongside al Zawahiri and eventually became one of his protégés, according to Debat who wrote the assessment for a blog known as the "Washington Realist."
>>>If we are going to talk about this guy, let's put a link to his WANTED Poster here:
Thanks, Cindy.
His picture reminds me of Johnny Depp.