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Senior Fallujah terrorist aide captured

Multi-National Force-Iraq

BAGHDAD , Iraq -- Multi-National Forces raided a suspected terrorist location in the Hillah area Aug. 29 and captured Ayad Adnan Away Samir, a key terrorist facilitator in the Fallujah area.

Ayad Adnan, (aka Abu Ahmad), admitted to coalition forces of being a terrorist and the senior aide to the terrorist leader Sheikh Abdullah Al Janabi, the Emir of the Shura Council in Fallujah. Al Janabi is a known foreign fighter facilitator.

Abu Ahmad's duties for Sheikh Abdullah included the facilitation of meetings between high level terrorists and driving Sheikh Abdullah to numerous meetings in and around the Fallujah area. Additionally, he admitted ties with other senior terrorists in Fallujah, Ramadi and Baghdad and to fighting against coalition forces in the battle of Fallujah last November.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT MULTI-NATIONAL CORPS-IRAQ,

BY E-MAIL AT MNCI-PAO-VICTORYMAINJOC@IRAQ.CENTCOM.MIL.

 



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