{"id":535,"date":"2005-01-24T20:57:29","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T02:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=535"},"modified":"2005-01-24T20:58:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-25T02:58:18","slug":"zarqawis-most-lethal-lt-nabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Zarqawi’s ‘Most Lethal’ Lt. Nabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a wealth of good news out of Iraq<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

Iraqi security forces have arrested the “most lethal” top lieutenant of al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a man allegedly behind 75 percent of the car bombings in Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion, the prime minister’s office said Monday.<\/p>\n

Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf, also known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi, was arrested during a Jan. 15 raid in Baghdad, a government statement said Monday. Two other militants linked to Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s terror group also have been arrested, authorities announced Monday.<\/p>\n

Al-Jaaf was “the most lethal of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s lieutenants,” the statement said.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Al-Jaaf was responsible for 32 car bombing attacks that killed hundreds of Iraqis, the statement said.<\/p>\n

“Abu Omar al-Kurdi claims responsibility for some of the most ruthless attacks on Iraqi police forces and police stations,” said Thaer al-Naqib, spokesman for interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.<\/p>\n

The statement said al-Jaaf “confessed to building approximately 75 percent of the car bombs used in attacks in Baghdad since March 2003,” al-Naqib said.<\/p>\n

Authorities also announced Monday that Iraqi security forces had arrested a man described as the chief of al-Zarqawi’s propaganda operations.<\/p>\n

And in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi forces seized one of al-Zarqawi’s weapons suppliers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Excellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a wealth of good news out of Iraq today. Iraqi security forces have arrested the “most lethal” top lieutenant of al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a man allegedly behind 75 percent of the car bombings in Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion, the prime minister’s office said Monday. Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}