They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06

Friday, July 07, 2006

Purported successor of Zarqawi in Egypt jail

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Abu Hamza al-Muhajir (the immigrant), the purported successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is in an Egyptian prison and not Iraq, a lawyer claimed on Thursday. According to Al-Masri al-Yawm newspaper, lawyer Mamduh Ismail conveyed he had met al-Muhajir, also known as Sharif Hazaa, or Abu Ayub al-Masri, in Cairo's Tura prison, where he has been held for the past seven years.

"Sharif Hazaa is in Tura prison, and I met him two days ago while I was visiting some of my clients," Ismail told the newspaper.

The US army media centre in Iraq said in respone: "We cannot comment on the news that... al-Masri is in an Egyptian prison and not in Iraq, we have to clarify that from the Egyptian government."

It should be mentioned that a claim posted on an Islamist website last month said that Abu Hamza al-Muhajir personally killed two U.S. soldiers who were captured in Iraq on June 16, 2006. Their bodies were later found mutilated and booby-trapped in Yusufiya, Iraq on June 19, 2006 Link