{"id":334,"date":"2006-07-07T18:58:58","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T18:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=334"},"modified":"2006-07-07T19:00:01","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T19:00:01","slug":"zarqawi-successor-in-egypt-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"Zarqawi successor &#8216;in Egypt jail&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><font size=\"5\"><span id=\"HtmlArticle\"><font size=\"2\">Egyptian newspaper Al-Masri al-Yawm has quoted Mamduh Ismail as saying he met al-Muhajir, also known as Sharif Hazaa, or Abu Ayub al-Masri, in Tura prison in Cairo, where he has been held for seven years.<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><font size=\"2\">&#8220;Sharif Hazaa [al-Muhajir] is in Tura prison, and I met him two days ago while I was visiting some of my clients,&#8221; Ismail, a lawyer known for defending Islamist groups, told the newspaper.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><font size=\"2\">Al-Muhajir is on the &#8220;most wanted&#8221; list issued by the Iraqi government last week. The US military in Iraq has put a $5million price on his head.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><font size=\"2\">The US army media centre in Iraq said: &#8220;We cannot comment on the news that &#8230; al-Masri is in an Egyptian prison and not in Iraq, we have to clarify that from the Egyptian government.&#8221;<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><font size=\"2\">The US military had announced after the death of al-Zarqawi that al-Masri had been appointed the leader of al-Qaeda&#8217;s organisation in Iraq.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><font size=\"2\">The military said al-Masri was born and brought up in Egypt. He then went to Afghanistan, where he trained in bomb-making before going to Iraq in 2002. [&#8230;]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/A924A436-D330-42C8-83C3-FEAF91E6B326.htm\">http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They obviously have a list of &#8216;bad guy assets&#8217; and didn&#8217;t check to see if this name was on the action list.<\/p>\n<p>Pathetic lapse!<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"5\"><span id=\"HtmlArticle\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian newspaper Al-Masri al-Yawm has quoted Mamduh Ismail as saying he met al-Muhajir, also known as Sharif Hazaa, or Abu Ayub al-Masri, in Tura prison in Cairo, where he has been held for seven years. &#8220;Sharif Hazaa [al-Muhajir] is in Tura prison, and I met him two days ago while I was visiting some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,11,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}