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Canadian allegedly leading insurgency
Ottawa checking into U.S. military commander's claim
Nov. 25, 2006. 01:00 AM
MICHELLE SHEPHARD
STAFF REPORTER
A top U.S. military commander says the most disciplined, intense
attacks from insurgency forces in Iraq to date are being masterminded
by an Iraqi Canadian.
Abu Abdul Rahman, who reportedly left Canada in 1995 after marrying an
Iraqi woman, is now one of the leaders of a disciplined insurgency
unlike anything the American troops have experienced in the past, the
New York Times reported yesterday.
The paper said training camps are now providing military instruction
for insurgents so they can withstand lengthy fights with the U.S.
forces, as opposed to the "hit-and-run" tactics employed during the
past.
A battle last week in the village of Turki, east of Baghdad, lasted for
40 hours of close combat, killing at least 72 insurgents and two
American officers, the Times noted.
"We hadn't seen anything like this in years," said Lt.-Col. Andrew
Poppas of the 82nd Airborne Division.
Poppas singled out the leadership of Rahman and told the newspaper the
Iraqi Canadian had been mentioned on jihadist websites as a future
replacement for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian who once headed Al
Qaeda in Iraq, a group known for its beheadings of foreigners.
Al-Zarqawi was killed earlier this year in an American air strike. But
news of a high-level Canadian insurgent left officials here confused
- and government sources said the name is not one that they
recognize.
A Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson last night said that they
would be looking into the newspaper report.
There have been Canadians singled out in the past for their alleged
involvement in Iraq - but the details of their cases differ from
those mentioned by the military commander.
Canadian Security Intelligence Service director Jim Judd mentioned
Toronto resident Hassan Farhat during a Senate committee hearing last
year, alleging he is a key commander of a terrorist group linked to Al
Qaeda in Iraq. Although Farhat is also known by other names, such as
Abdul Jaber, or Abu Khalid, he is not known to have used the name given
to the Times.
And Farhat was a landed immigrant and didn't leave Canada until October
2001, friends said.
Farhat reportedly went to Iraq to join Ansar Al Islam, a group the
United States said was the connection between Al Qaeda and deposed
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
The 9/11 Commission later dismissed this connection.
Two Canadian brothers from Toronto - Saeed Rasoul Sobrahatollah
Muhammad and Masoud Rasoul - also allegedly went to join Ansar Al
Islam.
Muhammad, a 32-year-old Seneca College graduate, was alleged to be
Ansar's computer expert but has not been heard from since early 2003
and is believed to be in U.S. custody.
Identification belonging to Rasoul - including his driver's licence,
social insurance card and a laminated card for Toronto sporting goods
store- were found after a U.S. attack on an Ansar stronghold near the
border of Iraq.
His family says that he has not been heard from since.
The most common reference to an Abu Abdul Rahman in Iraq refers to
al-Zarqawi's spiritual leader, who is not believed to be Canadian.
The SITE Institute, a Washington group that monitors terrorist
websites, found an Internet posting last year reportedly from Rahman,
calling himself the deputy emir of Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Rahman claims in the posting that the mujahideen have entered the
"threshold of a new stage in this war."

 American officers, the Times noted.
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