 The US military has captured a Tunisian man who specialised in bringing suicide bombers into Iraq. Imad Nassar Ahmed Amarah - also known as Abu Hamza - was captured in the northern city of Mosul, 360 kilometres north-east of Baghdad, the US military said in a statement on Monday.
| How the hell many "Abu Hamza's" are there in the Arab world? Do Arab men check into motels with strange women and register as "Mr. and Mrs. Abu Hamza"? |
"Abu Hamza, born in Tunisia, ran a series of suicide bomber safe houses in the Mosul area," the US military statement said. "Evidence collected indicated that over one hundred suicide bombers have passed through and operated out of Hamza's terrorist safe houses." Amarah is thought to have worked for an Al Qaida lieutenant called Abu Talha who was captured last week. Abu Talha served under Iraq's Al Qaida frontman Abu Musab Al Zarqawi. |