Abu Omar al-Kurdi
أبو عمر الكردي | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1968 |
| Died | 2007 |
| Nationality | Kurdish |
| Other names | Abu Omar al-Kurdi |
| Occupation | IED–maker |
| Organization | Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad |
| Criminal status | Executed in 2007 |
| Criminal charge | Terrorism |
| Penalty | Execution |
| Details | |
Span of crimes | 2003–2005 |
Date apprehended | 2005 |
Sami Mohammad Ali Said Jaff (1968-2007), also known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi, was a bomb-maker for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Biography[edit]
Abu Omar al-Kurdi was an ethnic Kurd from the Jaff tribe.[1] He was a veteran of Jihad in Afghanistan, where he allegedly mastered his bomb-making skills. He returned to Iraq in 2003 where he met Zarqawi and would later become his top bomb-maker. Allegedly, al-Kurdi's bomb-making was made possible by using hundreds of rockets and explosives stolen from Iraqi military warehouses by another member, Ammar az-Zubaidi, early in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. By the time he was arrested on January 15, 2005, he was already responsible for 75 percent of the car bomb attacks in Iraq since August 2003 but only confessed to 32 of them. These included the attack on the Jordanian embassy, the Canal Hotel bombing, the Imam Ali mosque bombing, the attack on the Italian base in Nasiriyya and the attack that killed Ezzedine Salim. The authorities said that al-Kurdi planned attacks on election polling stations during the January 30, 2005 parliamentary elections. al-Kurdi was executed in Baghdad in 2007.[2][3]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Abu Omar al-Kurdi, aka Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf — Iraqi Kurd.
- ^ Stephen Farrell (7 July 2007), "Iraq Hangs Insurgent Who Killed Shiite Leader in Bombing of Shrine in 2003", The New York Times, retrieved 2018-07-19
- ^ 'Iraq hangs man who confessed to UN attack' Archived 2013-09-28 at archive.today. National Post, undated. Retrieved 22 February 2015.