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| al-Zarqawi's Aide Killed this Week: More about the Snuffee..... |
| 2004-09-25 |
| From DEBKA - grain of salt but it doesn't seem like they're blowing smoke on this one - EFT - RTWT: On Thursday, September 23, US forces resorted to targeted assassination to dispose of Abu Anas al-Shami, a senior aide of the Jordanian al Qaeda mastermind, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in Baghdad. His real identity, we reveal here, was Omar Yusef Jumaa, a Palestinian terrorist operations expert from the West Bank town of Tulkarm... No one knows exactly how many lieutenants Zarqawi has, probably 4 or five. But locating and killing a high-profile member of Zarqawi's organization a few days after the capture of another top Zarqawi aide, known as Omar Baziyani (an alias), is a considerable American feat in its relentless offensive against the group behind the deadly suicide bombings and hostage-taking atrocities afflicting Iraq. These operations go on clandestinely behind the well-publicized US air strikes... However on the Western Bank of the Jordan, DEBKAfile's Palestinian sources report, Yasser Arafat ordered Juma'a's kinfolk in Tulkarm to refrain from setting up a mourners' tent lest the true identity of a top al Qaeda operative be blown and his Palestinian movement implicated. The makeup of the stream of visitors thronging to the mourners' tent in Amman is instructive — Jordanian Palestinian notables, Palestinian Authority officials and officers based in Jordan, and Jordanian lawmakers, members of the fundamentalist Islamic Front. Upon leaving the tent, the visitors were interviewed by Jordanian intelligence and asked to explain why they saw fit to console the family of a high al Qaeda operative. "Got something you'd like to tell us?" "Not us, Boss; Moving along here, Boss" Aged 35 when hit by the American missile, the Palestinian terrorist took an Islamic studies degree at Medina University in Saudi Arabia. No! Who'd a thunk? Notice how none of these guys ever go to Notre Dame? In 2004, he became deeply involved in an al Qaeda operation outside Iraq. DEBKAfile's sources reveal that it was Juma'a who was behind the abortive chemical weapons plot against Jordan that was thwarted last April and first exposed on this site on April 21, 2004. It was his idea to send one of three chemical explosives trucks smuggled in from Syria to Jordan to the Adam Bridge linking Jordan and Israel and try to get it across for a large-scale poison attack on an Israeli target. If the truck failed to cross the border, it was ordered to blow up at the border terminal. In either case, he would have established the precedent of the first al Qaeda chemical attack against an Israeli target. Neither came off and the Jordanian authorities later rounded up an al Qaeda cell in Amman. Abu Anas distinguished himself as a key operations officer in the eighteen months he spent with the Jordanian master terrorist in Iraq and was elevated to number two spot. Two months ago, he received his last assignment, the sensitive mission of implanting a major al Qaeda team in the Shiite Sadr City of Baghdad. Zarqawi calculated that by quickly filling the vacuum left by the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's defeat in Najef, al Qaeda would draw in Mehdi Army militiamen deprived of their leader and establish a formidable anti-US anti-government presence in the Iraqi capital. By killing the Palestinian terrorist mastermind, the Americans stymied this plan. Sound like a much more satisying hit than just the "Spiritual Leader" of al-Zarqawi's group as was reported MSM. |
| Posted by:Mercutio |
| #5 Targeted assassination, untargeted assassination -- whatever works. I'll back that. Hell, beat 'em to death with chunks of a cinder block. Please, just kill these maggots quickly. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-25 11:19:42 PM |
| #4 Targeted assassination, untargeted assassination -- whatever works. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-09-25 8:24:56 PM |
| #3 "No! Who’d a thunk? Notice how none of these guys ever go to Notre Dame?" At least Harvard didn't get blamed this time. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2004-09-25 8:12:49 PM |
| #2 Might Fred be posting a pic of The Fat Lady? Here's hoping.... Wonder what the reporter meant when he said..."US forces 'resorted' to targeted assassination"....? Targeted assassination IS the way to go if you've got the intelligence. |
| Posted by: Mark Z. 2004-09-25 8:11:28 PM |
| #1 Abu Anas al-whacked Shami shall soon be seeing with his mentored Muslim serial killer friend, al-Zarqawi, in Hell. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-09-25 6:27:15 PM |