A little background has begun to surface on the latest USAF target of choice, Zarqawi's successor. (Bombs be upon him.)
Al-Qaeda in Iraq's new leader is a 40-year-old Libyan specialised in recruiting young Arabs to fight for the terrorist network, according to an "Iraqi expert" cited on the Internet site of the Dubai-based television network al-Arabiya.
According to the expert, Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir - named on Monday on several Islamist Internet sites as terror network in Iraq's new leader - lived in Sudan until 1995 from where he moved to Pakistan and also Afghanistan.“I believe he stayed with a group linked to the Osama Bin Zayd Mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan before leaving for Iraq in 2001. I've been informed that he is an educated leader, in the military rather that in the spiritual field.
"Abu Hamza al-Muhajir has been an al-Qaeda intelligence chief for three years during which he was responsible for maintaining links with cells in the Middle East and in certain North African countries," the unidentified expert told al-Arabiya."In Iraq, al-Muhajir was based in the small northern town of al-Qaim (near the Syrian border and some 400 kilometres nortwest of Baghdad) from where he would direct the operations of his Arab recruits.
One of his last tasks before his appointment as al-Qaeda in Iraq's leader was to organise the group's fighters in the city of Kirkuk," the expert said. Some observers have linked the series of bombs that went off in Kirkuk on Tuesday killing 24 Iraqis and wounding another 40 as possibly signalling a show of strength by the terrorist leader.
(Source: AKI)
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