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January 25, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/25/international/middleeast/25iraq.html

Captured Al-Qaeda Terrorist Masterminded Assault on UN Headquarters in Baghdad

(New York Times) Edward Wong - An al-Qaeda lieutenant in custody in Iraq has confessed to masterminding most of the car bombings in Baghdad, including the bloody 2003 assault on the UN headquarters in the capital, authorities said Monday. Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf, also known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi, "confessed to building approximately 75% of the car bombs used in attacks in Baghdad'' since the Iraq war began, according to the interim Iraqi prime minister's spokesman, Thaer al-Naqib.

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