The Fourth Rail (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
Hamed Dawood Mohammed Khalil al Zawi, who is better known as Abu Omar al Baghdadi. Image from Talisman's Gate via al Arabiya The identity of Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda's Islamic State in Iraq, has been called into question after the US military released letters written by senior al Qaeda leaders discussing the state of Iraq and the viability of the terror group's leadership...
Indymedia ireland (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... flight logs as a staging area for renditions operations. The men involved were Khaled al-Maqtari, Abu Omar, Khaled el-Masri and Binyam Mohamed.“I would like to pay tribute to our local Amnesty International Group in Limerick who worked with Cllr Greg Duff, who proposed the motion, ahead of the vote to ensure a successful outcome,” continued Mr O’Gorman.“The representatives of the people...
Tariq Nelson (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
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Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
... rhetoric of the AQ central leadership (especially Zawahiri) and AQ in Iraq (especially Zarqawi and Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi). Initially, AQC wanted to avoid confrontation with Iran, whereas the AQ in Iraq were fighting an open war with Iran. But now the AQC position vis a vis Iran has changed dramatically and this is most evident in Zawahiri’s response to close to 90 questions posed to him a...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Nine Italians, including Mr Pollari, are on trial together with the CIA agents, who however are being tried in absentia because the US has refused to extradite them. The case relates to the alleged kidnapping of Abu Omar, the imam at Milan's main mosque, by a team of CIA operatives with the co-operation and knowledge of SISMI officers as part of the controversial extraordinary rendition programme...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Baghdad - The government of Iraq responded angrily on Thursday to calls by the leader of an al-Qaeda-linked organization to have the country's top Sunni officials killed, local media said. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq mil...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Baghdad - The government of Iraq responded angrily Thursday to calls by the leader of an al-Qaeda-linked organization to have the country's top Sunni officials killed, local media said. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq militi...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
CAIRO — The purported leader of an al-Qaeda-dominated insurgent umbrella group in Iraq has called for the murder of all members of the country's main Sunni Arab political party, in an audio message posted Tuesday on militant websites. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State in Iraq, said in the half-hour audio message that members of the Iraqi Islamic Party had 15 days to repent but...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... main Sunni Arab political party, in an audio message posted Tuesday on militant Web sites. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State in Iraq, said in the half-hour audio message that members of the Iraqi Islamic Party had 15 days to repent, but that its leaders should be killed immediately. Afghanistan / Pakistan • House mistakenly hit: A NATO bomb mistakenly hit a house 1 1/2 miles...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
CAIRO, Egypt The purported leader of an al-Qaida-dominated insurgent umbrella group in Iraq has called for the murder of all members of the country's main Sunni Arab political party, in an audio message posted Tuesday on militant Web sites.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State in Iraq, said in the half-hour audio message that members of the Iraqi Islamic Party had 15 days...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Al-Qaida figure: Death to Iraqi Sunni leadersBy SALAH NASRAWICAIRO, Egypt -- The purported leader of an al-Qaida-dominated insurgent umbrella group in Iraq has called for the murder of all members of the country's main Sunni Arab political party, in an audio message posted Tuesday on militant Web sites.Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State in Iraq, said in the half-hour audio message...
Confederate Yankee (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
The letters, which have been sent exclusively to The Long War Journal by Multinational Forces Iraq, are a series of communications between Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second in command, Abu Ayyub al Masri, al Qaeda in Iraq's leader, and Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq. These letters were intercepted by Coalition forces in Baghdad on April 24, 2008. One...
The Fourth Rail (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... Iraq, are a series of communications between Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second in command, Abu Ayyub al Masri, al Qaeda in Iraq's leader, and Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq. These letters were intercepted by Coalition forces in Baghdad on April 24, 2008. One of the letters written by Zawahiri is dated March 6, 2008. Coalition forces found the letters...
