Top secret report reveals how Al Qaeda executioners were captured by ingenious SAS... using Bisto granules

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Top secret report reveals how Al Qaeda executioners were captured by ingenious SAS... using Bisto granules

 

By Mark Nicol and Ian Gallagher

PUBLISHED:17:11 EST, 16 June 2012 | UPDATED:17:11 EST, 16 June 2012

They killed with apparent impunity, effortlessly dodging capture by the world’s deadliest special forces.

Nothing, it seemed, could stop Al Qaeda’s two top Iraqi terrorists as they orchestrated a campaign of high-profile kidnappings, car bombings and executions in Baghdad and beyond.

At the height of their reign, one of them, Maher Ahmed Mahmoud az-Zubeidi, better known by his alias Abu Rami, was believed to have been responsible for the murders of 200 people each month.

Yet perhaps even more ferocious was his charismatic co-leader, Abu Uthman, whose exploits in two battles in Fallujah earned him the nickname Abu Nimr – The Tiger.

The American military bestowed on him a more prosaic title: Number One HVI (high-value individual).

Uthman was linked to the murder of British aid worker Margaret Hassan and the kidnapping of British peace activist Norman Kember and – like Rami – had the blood of hundreds of soldiers and civilians on his hands.

 

The Russian diplomatic car from which the diplomat was kidnapped. SAS killed Rami in 2006

But by mid-2008, despite years of trying, US special forces were still no nearer tracing either of the men who, helped by a vast network of supporters, rarely slept in the same beds for longer than a few weeks.

The Russians were also searching. Rami was blamed for the beheading of four embassy workers abducted from a diplomatic car in Baghdad and Vladimir Putin put a £7 million price on his head and a team of assassins on his tail.

Until today the true extent of the Al Qaeda men’s murderous influence has never been revealed and neither has the extraordinary story of how they were eventually stopped.

The Mail on Sunday can disclose that it was not US special forces who finally killed Rami and captured Uthman – as was reported at the time by The Washington Post – but the Read More

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