Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi Revealed?
Food for thought over at Tailsman Gate blog
Quoting from the site:
Alleged picture of Hamed al-Zawi, “Abu Omar al-Baghdadi”, as supplied by the Haditha police chief to Al-Arabiya
This is a response I posted to a comment earlier today about whether Abu Omar al-Baghdadi’s true identity has been revealed:
Hi Ali/Iraq,
This is an interesting revelation from the police chief of Haditha, who spoke about AOB to Al-Arabiya.
Hamid Dawood Muhammad Khalil al-Zawi! He’s supposed to have been an officer in the Amn al-’Aameh [General Security Directorate] under Saddam!
This account has credibility in so far as the Zawis of Haditha and Anah claim descent from Al-Hussein [much disputed by genealogists], and AOB in his last speech singled out the Jughaifis in his last speech and seemed to be knowledgeable about the tribes in that area above Haditha. He even mentioned the Zawiyeen even though they are a very small clan.
In fact, I remember reading a year ago, around the time when Muharib al-Juburi was killed, that someone on a jihadist chatroom made the assertion that al-Zawi was AOB.
So it could be Hamid al-Zawi afterall. However, I would have thought that Al-Qaeda would have been very sensitive about placing a former Saddam officer at the helm of their organization, and would have looked for someone completely unconnected to the ex-regime. Furthermore, this could be a very local problem between the police chief of Haditha who is accusing a top terrorist commander from his town to be the top dog of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
One more thing, if he was from Anbar, then why call himself al-Baghdadi? Such a title would come back to haunt him if he goes public with his identity in the future, exposing him to mockery.
We shall have to wait and see if the Islamic State of Iraq is going to respond in a public statement to this assertion.
I’ll still kind of convinced that it could be Khalid Khalil Ibrahim al-Mashhadani, Abu Zaid, but we’ve not seen anything to verify that. This claim that Hamid al-Zawi is AOB constitutes the most serious challenge to my AOB as al-Mashhadani theory.
Either way, I never bought the idea that he was a fictional character.
Let’s wait and see.
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