Palestinian Terrorist flees to Lebanon, FBI confirms

Terrorist flees to Lebanon, FBI confirms

NEW YORK (AP) -- 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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The guy is as good as escaped in lebanon. Lebanon is basically controlled by hezbolla and is about to go through some extremely difficult times right now as it is having its so called elections.

 

One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter

 

Hahaha. Sad but true.

 

Only if you can't tell the difference between men who purposely kill innocent civilians and those that don't.

Not being able to tell the difference says more about your morality than anything.

 

Agreed . So what do you call what we did to Iran in 1953?

 

Don't expect a reply

 

so what?

Abu Ibrahim made it clear when he said:

and when he said:

 

"15 may" lol. like a rock band. Even the most brutal Murderers, people whose life is dedicated to one purpose only: to kill in the name of Allah (and not because of an "occupier", imad) can also have a good sense of humour.
I find it very funny when osama bin laden, the hero of imad, is calling america "the crusaders"

U gotta love these guys

 

History.

It is silly to try and live life fighting historical misdeeds, whether true or not. It is 2009 and we need to deal with issues that abound today, not things that happened 50+ years ago.

The fact you bring this up hundreds of times, is pointless. You want to point to that singular event as though it has any bearing on what is happening today.

You seem to use it as a justification for not condemning Islamic terrorists, by saying "but look what America did 50+ years ago". That is the argument of a 3-year old.

 

the name means a lot for them, 15th of May is the day when Israel was established illegally, so the name tells all clearly their problem is with the illegal occupation that started on 15th May, not to kill in the name of Allah,

I found it really strange Chaos, you read my previous post and did not correct it??????

you know that these quotes were for Shamir, who later become the prime minister of the illegal state of Israel, and not Abu Ibrahim words,

so what problem those people have with terrorism ( this is assuming that Abu Ibrahim is a terrorist) since there is nothing in their morals that is against it, don't they always wished if Palestinians have the same morals??

I guess 2003 became history now, and also Abu Ghraib, and many other incidents since 1954?

it looks like pingpong is really annoying you each time he comes up with this, lol, but there is a better way to correct it else than saying "oh come on, this is history now" it will become history when U.S. apologize for it, admit they were wrong, and stop repeating it always

 

Imad, the Islamic terrorists of this world will one day be wiped out. Probably in your lifetime India, China, Russia, the US, and most every other civilized nation will join the fight together. Hope you are on the right side when the fight come to your country.

p.s. I don't really find pingpong's posts annoying, just boring.

 

The occupation of Iraq is illigal ................ Even Obama said it was the wrong war.
Why creating bases for terrorism against America? Why supporting the totally wrong Israely policies of oppressing the Palestians thus creating hundred of millions anti-Americans around the world?

 

already these countries and even most Islamic countries have joined the fight against terrorism, but those people are looking for another leadership than U.S. because I believe it is obvious now, U.S. can't be trusted, their acts and the so-called war on terrorism helped to strengthen terrorism, and for sure U.S. has a great interest in keeping that big lie of terrorism alive,

to fight terrorism, we need to identify terrorism, first, then to identify the term Islamic terrorists, identifying the problem is half of the solution, U.S. did not identify the problem or was not interested in identifying it because they have other goals than really fighting terrorism,

the problem is terrorism can't be fought by armies because terrorist groups are not armies, it needs intelligence and police work, with a big campaign against ignorance that may push some young people to join such groups,

if that has been followed early, then there would have been great progress since then.

all the calls to fight terrorism and Islamic terrorism is just dishonest calls, to make things worse, to achieve more benefits.

 

Imad, there is a saying in poker ....

If you look around the table after playing for a while and you can't tell who the sucker is, well then you are the sucker.​

I know it is hard for you since you just admitted in the other thread that the Taliban understand Islam correctly. The rest of us see them blowing up civilians in Pakistan and know unequivocally who the terrorists are. I feel bad for you that you have such difficulty identifying evil.

 

as I mentioned in the other thread you pointed to, I understand you are so eager to say Taliban is Islam, and trying hard in every way you can to portray Islam and Muslims in every bad image you can,

a bank robber understands the law very well, he knows that robbing a bank is not allowed, yet he still robs a bank, is the law bad in this case?

think about it

 

Quite the opposite. I hope Muslims prevail in their fight against Islamic terrorist/Extremist Islam. I think you are the one who confuses the two. Do you know which side you are on?

 

confusing what two?
Islam and Extremists?

it's strange because I think you are the one who does so.

would be useful if you posted what makes a Muslim becomes an extremist in your own point of view.

 

I consider anyone who tries to make others comply with their religious rules (or any fighting with the claim that God is motivating their actions) by threats of force or actual violence to be extreme, be they Muslims, Jews or Christians.

Groups like Hamas, Taliban, Hezbollah, Lashkar-e Tayyiba, Islamic Jihad, etc.

 

I agree with the first part of your post, but int he second part you have only Islamic groups, you did not include Israel, because their occupation of Palestine was motivated by God as they believe (promised land)

you did not include any Christian too, like Bush and Rumsfeld.

for the groups you mentioned, you included some resistance groups with Taliban, they can't all be looked at the same way.
if there was no illegal occupation, then Hamas and Hezballah would not be existing, since their establishment came long after big terrorist group called Israel, which been trying to make other comply with their religious rules (despite even other Jewish religious groups say they are nut cases ).