Zarqawi's Right Hand Man: ASHKRAF

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You know, you can't make this stuff up.

http://www.ocnus.net/artman/publish/article_11737.shtml

How Terror Groups Vied for a Player

WASHINGTON – All the terrorists wanted Shadi Abdallah on their team.

Like many disenchanted Muslim youths in the late 1990s, the Jordanian-born Mr. Abdallah had embarked on a wandering journey that ended in the terror training camps of Afghanistan. But Abdallah was apparently a better student than most. As his time in the camps neared its end in 2001, at least two major Islamist factions began vying for his services.

In a face-to-face meeting, Osama bin Laden invited him to join Al Qaeda - and even asked him to serve as a personal bodyguard. Meanwhile, Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the now-infamous Jordanian deemed responsible for recent attacks in Iraq, wanted Abdallah to join Al Tawhid, Mr. Zarqawi's rival organization. Abdallah opted for Al Tawhid, in part due to Jordanian ties. He went to Germany to carry out attacks, but his plans were interrupted when German authorities arrested him in April 2002.

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Abdallah says that because Ali suspected German authorities were watching him, Zarqawi replaced him at the beginning of 2002. The new man, referred to in the papers as "Aschraf," was from then on in charge of the cell that included Abdallah. Aschraf's assignment was to carry out "two or three" attacks against "Jewish institutions" in Germany. Zarqawi, Abdallah says, gave the orders for the kinds of attacks, in this case, suicide bomb attacks.

But the details had to be worked out locally. Aschraf directed Abdallah to phone members of other cells to inquire about explosives, which they referred to as "black pills" and "Lebanese or Russian apples," the transcript says. Abdallah claims he purchased explosives from "Albanians in Hamburg."


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So "Ashkraf" is the new terra'ist in town, folks.

Ever get the feeling that disinfo is staffed by a bunch of wannabe comedians?