For those who may be interested in viewing the original hyperlinks to the people mentioned in my NEWSBLAZE story regarding former Baathists working with Zarqawi in Iraq, the hyperlinks are below....
Abdel Fatih Isa – former Iraqi Army officer and al Qaeda emir, captured May 6, 2004
Ahmad Hasan Kaka al-’Ubaydi - Ahmad Hasan Kaka al-’Ubaydi is a former Iraqi Intelligence Service officer, and is now believed associated with Ansar Al Islam affiliate. Still at large
Rafid Ibrahim Fattah - He traveled throughout Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq for the last 15 years, forming a relationship with al-Qaida in 1999. He served as a liaison between terrorist networks, as an operations officer coordinating the activities of the various terrorist groups, and as a security chief for a terrorist training camp in
Muhammed Hila Hammad Ubaydi - aka Abu Ayman, Until his capture, Abu Ayman, the former aide to the Chief of Staff of Intelligence during the Saddam Hussein regime for 30 years, was the leader of the Secret Islamic Army in the
Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri – possibly dead, “The former vice chairman of Saddam's Baathist Revolutionary Command Council. He swore fealty to Zarqawi last year and commands a significant element of the Baathist/al Qaeda converts. H has significant links in
Unidentified man – “The man who was killed was later identified as a retired officer in the Iraqi Air Force serving under the Saddam Hussein regime. The male who initiated the gunfire is a suspected al-Qaeda terrorist for whom the troops were searching, as well as the retired officer’s son. “ killed on
Abu Asim - A former Special Republican Guard officer under Saddam Hussein, authorities believe Abu Asim has been active within the insurgency since the fall of the former regime. Associate of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, at large
Fadhil Ibrahim Mahmud Al-Mashadani, “the former leader of the Military Bureau in Baghdad during the Saddam Hussein regime, was apprehended by security forces in a military operation conducted at a farm in the northeast of Baghdad,” a government statement said.” caught April 13,2005
Abed Dawood Suleiman and his son, Raed Abed Dawood, - Abed was a former Iraqi general believed to be Jordanian extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's "military adviser“, his son Raed was a former Army captain in the Iraqi army, caught April 15, 2005
Abu Talha, also known as Mohammed Khalaf Shkarah al-Hamadani , a key facilitator and financier for al Qaeda, the purported head of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi’s terror cell and former member of Saddam Hussein’s once ruling Baath Party and a warrant officer in the former Iraqi army, captured June 5, 2005
Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi, brother of former Iraqi military officer Thamer Mubarak captured by Jordanian officials during the al Qaeda (Zarqawi orchestrated) suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan.
"Al-Hajji" Thamer Mubarak, a former Iraqi military officer turned key aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was involved in the August 2003 al Qaeda attack on UN headquarters in Iraq
Abu Aseel, a former high ranking Saddam official, has been working with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi since 2002. Sami Moubayed, Asia Times, 6-13, 06
Hasayn Ali Muzabir, formerly al Qaeda's emir of Samarra, was killed in Balad, Iraq on June 2, 2006. Muzabir was a former Intelligence officer (Mukhabarat) for Saddam Hussein’s regime
Muhammad Hamza Zubaydi, Zubaydi was a "Baath Party official in charge of security in central Iraq and had helped put down an uprising by Shiite Muslims in southern Iraq in 1991," later found to be associate of Zarqawi's group in Iraq
85 fighters were also killed in a joint Baath/al Qaeda camp in March 2005
Abu Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi, "believed to be a former officer in Saddam's army, or its elite Republican Guard, who has worked closely with al-Zarqawi since the overthrow of the Iraqi dictator in April 2003", was also considered to be the replacement for Abu Musab al Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq.
Abdul Hamid Mustafa al-Douri, an aide to Zarqawi and head of the Salaheddin province Al-Qaida branch, captured in a joint Iraqi police and army operation in a village in northern Tikrit. A relative to Saddam Hussein’s aide Izzat Ibrahim, al-Douri was behind a number of car bombings.
Salas Khabbas, "a former member of the Baath party and closely linked with al-Qaeda, specialized in attacking convoys and kidnapping." Captured 7-12-06 by Polish Intelligence agents.
Abu Zubair, linked to Saddam Hussein, was trained in Iraq. This report also said that in the 1990s, Zubair's “Supporters of Islam” organisation was sent by Saddam Hussein into northern Iraq to “assassinate leading Kurds and to build chemical warfare facilities.”
Rafid Fatah, "also known as Abu Omer al-Kurdi, was also trained by Saddam and worked with Zubair against the Kurds. It is not known when he left Iraq, but he too became a leading member of al-Qa'eda . His whereabouts are not known."
Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, #3 al Qaeda leader, former Iraqi Army officer,
Mohammed Hanoun Hamoud al-Mozani, former Iraqi intelligence officer captured by police after last week's bombings in Baghdad and Karbala has revealed that he was paid by al-Qa'eda to carry out attacks on civilians
Hamed Jumaa Farid al-Saeedi, former member of Saddam Hussein's Intelligence Services who rose to number 2 in al-Qaeda.
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