Iraq's Second-Ranked Terrorist Was A Swede

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Source: CBS/AP

Mohamed Moumou Died In Firefight Recently In Mosul; Was Wanted By U.S. Since 2006

(CBS/ AP) Al Qaeda in Iraq's second-in-command, killed recently in Mosul, was actually a naturalized Swedish citizen who's been wanted by the U.S. since 2006, a U.S. official told CBS News.

U.S. intelligence knew him as Mohamed Moumou, but in Iraq he went by the alias Abu Qaswarah, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr.

Moumou was identified in December 2006 in a U.S. Treasury release as an individual who was providing financial assistance to al Qaeda and facilitating terrorist activities. Moumou, who was born in Morocco and moved to Sweden as a teenager, was a well-known leader of an extremist group centered around the Brandbergen Mosque in Stockholm, reports Orr.

He had traveled in the past to Afghanistan and Pakistan and had numerous connections to senior al Qaeda leaders, including the now-dead Al Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Musab al Zarqawi, reports Orr. It's not known when he went to Iraq, but it is know he died there Oct. 5 following a firefight with U.S. forces near Mosul.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/16/world/main4527225.shtml?tag=lowerContent;homeSectionBlock202

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1. Wanted Poster

That's the guy on the top-left?

[Ian David]

2. I hear they caught him because he was the only one in Iraq ordering furniture from Ikea. n/t

[Doctor_J]

3. And ordered NHL Centre Ice on his DirecTV.

[ohio2007]

4. Mohamed Moumou, alias Abu Qaswarah, aka Sven 'ABBA' ahkbar Bjornic

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Muhammad Moumou, 43, a Moroccan native, was the man U.S. military officials in Baghdad identified Wednesday as Abu Qaswarah.

U.S. officials say Moumou, who was born in the Moroccan city of Fez and obtained Swedish citizenship in 1994,

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/16/AR2008101603615_pf.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ohr4P8E_io

Did he become a citizen in hopes his 72 virgins would be fair haired Swedes ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuB8xWeA59I&feature=related
now thats being slick ! ;)

[DebbieCDC]

5. When I first heard this story I thought it was from The Onion