Caught: Major Al Qaeda Terrorist Linked To Golden Dome
MNF-I:
BAGHDAD – Iraqi forces, with U.S. Special Forces as advisers, detained two individuals believed to be linked to the al-Qaeda in Iraq criminal network Oct. 2, near Baghdad.
During one of the operations, Soldiers from the 6th Iraqi Army Division detained a suspected al-Qaeda financier in Kindi. The extremist financier is suspected of traveling to foreign countries to acquire financial support for terrorist activities and is suspected of supplying more than $50,000 to al-Qaeda each month. He is believed to have received $100,000,000 this summer from terrorist supporters who cross the Iraq border illegally or fly into Iraq from Italy, Syria and Egypt.
The terrorist is linked to financing cells in Doura, Tarmiyah and Baqubah, and uses a leather merchant business as a front to smuggle weapons and explosives from surrounding countries. Intelligence shows he has stores in Fallujah, Syria and Jordan.
He allegedly employs 40 to 50 extremists who help deliver and emplace improvised explosive devices to attack Iraqi and Coalition Forces. The group allegedly pays cell members $3,000 for each operation.
The financier is additionally linked to purchasing explosives and weapons that were used to destroy the dome of the sacred “Golden Mosque” in 2006 and then re-attacking it in 2007. In April, the suspected terrorist allegedly shot at a Coalition patrol in Al-Mansour, killing three U.S. service members and wounding one.
During a separate operation, Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained a suspected al-Qaeda platoon leader Oct. 2 in Radwaniyah.
The extremist commands 15 men to attack Iraqi and Coalition Forces with IEDs and direct firefights. In April, the leader and his group emplaced and detonated an IED along the main highway in Radwaniyah, injuring several Iraqi Army Soldiers and destroying a tactical vehicle. In May, the group attacked an Iraqi Army traffic control point and killed several Soldiers during the firefight.
No U.S. or Iraqi members were harmed during these operations.
Related: September Senior Al Qaeda Catches
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What is the fate of these captured BG’s? Are they warehoused for later release as POW’s? Do they get a fast tribunal and a bullet? What’s the plan?
October 4th, 2007 at 4:28 amOne hundred million? Just this summer? Hard to believe.
October 4th, 2007 at 4:45 am$100M is some pretty serious jing. That loss will disrupt things for a while. Bet he can cough up a lot of intel when they waterboard the shit out of him.
October 4th, 2007 at 5:31 amWe keep rolling these haji up, and haji keeps comming back for more. Must be alot of masochists in Islam huh?
October 4th, 2007 at 5:42 am“No U.S. or Iraqi members were harmed during these operations.”
F’n A! Always love to see no injuries or deaths to
October 4th, 2007 at 6:07 amthe joint forces. They are doing outstanding work
and they are going to crush them all!
Success after success that’s not heard about in the MSM…Thanks to Pat and all the rest of you who are doing the real work and keeping us informed
October 4th, 2007 at 6:40 am