Here you have proof positive that a known terrorist mastermind is now in Beirut. But wait a minute. The real story which the mainstream media won’t dare tell you because it doesn’t coincide with their Blame Bush theme is that Husayn al-Umari used to actually live in Iraq. Yes, a known terrorist was operating in Iraq. Imagine that for a second. The media could very well have been dead wrong about the war in Iraq being for no good reason. Known terrorists being in Iraq won’t even be mentioned in the mainstream media because it doesn’t fit with their current love fest with Obama, which is nothing short of being like pigs at the money slop trough. However, rest assured that the FBI knows about this, and now you do too. The only problem is that this asshole is now in Lebanon, and ironically Lebanon is expected to elect a Hamas government. You can put two and two together very quickly. There is likely to be war in Lebanon again, and the Iranian influence cannot be overlooked any further. Like we’ve been saying for quite some time, folks, there is trouble on the horizon and quietly Obama is morphing into Bush, while he throws leftist bones to the people who think he is on their side. The media that covered for Obama knows that the clock is ticking on their little escapades, and they had better watch their ass or else they might be next on the chopping block.
By Adam Goldman
Associated Press
May 29, 2009
A master bomb maker who once targeted commercial airliners and was suspected of aiding the Iraq insurgency has fled to Lebanon, an FBI official has confirmed.
There is information that 73-year-old Abu Ibrahim was reportedly in Tripoli, a city in northwest Lebanon, the official said earlier this week. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation continues.
The Palestinian terrorist is accused of bombings in the 1980s. He was indicted in the 1982 bombing of Pan Am Flight 830. The explosion killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded more than a dozen passengers as the plane headed to Honolulu from Tokyo.
The FBI has been looking to catch Ibrahim for decades and has recently increased its efforts to arrest him. In April, an FBI committee recommended Ibrahim be placed on agency’s list of most wanted terrorists.
The FBI is also trying to tap a State Department reward program to boost the bounty for his capture to millions of dollars. Ibrahim’s real name is Husayn al-Umari.
Ibrahim has remained out of reach for decades while living in Baghdad. With the help of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, Ibrahim ran a feared terrorist organization called “15 May,” according to federal court documents and terrorism experts. The group is named for the date Israel was founded.
Ibrahim, a devout Sunni who was born in Tripoli, is suspected of carrying out more than two dozen attacks on mainly American, Israeli and Jewish targets in a career that spans decades.
The Iraqi government also used him to conduct terrorism operations against Syria and Iran. In his book, former CIA spy master Duane R. Clarridge wrote that Ibrahim had a “talent for constructing ingenious machines of death, such as refrigerator trucks whose cooling pipes were filled with liquid explosives.”
He’s accused of training a slew of operatives in the art of bomb making whose expertise metastasized across the Middle East, including Mohammed Rashed and Abu Zyad. Rashed is behind bars at the Supermax maximum-security prison in Florence, Colo. He’s scheduled to be released in less than four years.
Some still remain unaccounted for, like Zyad.
Zyad, 60, was born in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. He assisted Ibrahim in Baghdad in the early 1980s, according to CIA investigative notes obtained by The Associated Press. The notes say Zyad lived in Sudan for two years before leaving for Algiers, Algeria, in 1989. His current whereabouts are unknown.
A former senior CIA official who was stationed in Baghdad after the Iraqi invasion in 2003 said there were serious suspicions that Ibrahim had helped the insurgency.
The official said Ibrahim had recently slipped into Lebanon through Syria after coalition forces began to increase efforts to drive insurgents out of the Mosul area and the Saladin Province in Iraq, where Ibrahim had been operating.
The former CIA official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he still works in the Middle East, said that Ibrahim had also gone to Tripoli. Ibrahim’s second wife, Selma, is from Tripoli.
“He’s got a lot of resources there,” the official said.
Ibrahim’s family also has connections to the Badawi Palestinian refugee camp on the northern fringes of Tripoli, according to the CIA notes.
The U.S. does not have an extradition treaty with Lebanon.
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