Abu Umar al-Kurdi
Abu Umar al-Kurdi ( Arabic أبو عمر الكردي Abū ʿUmar al-Kurdī ; * 1968 ; † 2007 in Baghdad ) alias Sami Muhammad Ali Said al-Jaaf , was the chief bomb specialist of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terrorist organization in Iraq , at-Tawhīd wa al-Jihād . He was arrested in January 2005 and executed in 2007.
According to American and Iraqi authorities, al-Kurdi was a veteran from training camps in Afghanistan and became the top bomb specialist in Zarqawi's group in 2003. Allegedly, al-Kurdi made bomb-making possible through the use of hundreds of rockets and explosives stolen from Iraqi warehouses by another member, Ammar az-Zubaidi , at the beginning of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
When he was arrested on January 15, 2005, authorities said he was responsible for 75 percent of the car attacks in Iraq since August 2003, and allegedly confessed to 32 of them. These included the attack on the Jordanian embassy, on the UN headquarters, the killing of Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim , the attack on the Italian base in Nasiriyya and the attack in which Ezzedine Salim , chairman of the Iraqi government council , was killed .
Authorities said al-Kurdi planned to attack polling stations during the January 30, 2005 parliamentary elections. He also gave information about Zarqawi's movement, hiding places and communication channels. al-Kurdi was executed in Baghdad in 2007 .
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- ↑ Stephen Farrell: Iraq Hangs Insurgent Who Killed Shiite Leader in Bombing of Shrine in 2003 . ( nytimes.com [accessed July 19, 2018]).
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kurdi, Abu Umar al- |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kurdī, Abū ʿUmar al-; Jaaf, Sami Muhammad Ali Said al-; أبو عمر الكردي (Arabic) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iraqi bomb specialist, terrorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2007 |
| Place of death | Baghdad , Iraq |