Bin Laden associate killed. Multi—National Forces—Iraq announced April 13 the killing of a wanted terrorist and known al—Qaida associate, Rafid Ibrahim Fattah aka Abu Umar al Kurdi. Abu Umar al Kurdi died in an early morning raid March 27 in the vicinity of Abu Ghraib, Baghdad . Officials confirmed he had ties to Jaysh al—Islami, Ansar al Sunnah, Taliban members in Afghanistan , Pakistani—based extremists, and senior al—Qaida leaders to include Osama bin Laden and Ayman al—Zawahiri. The terrorist worked as a Jaysh al—Islami cell leader in Baquba for the last six months, and was allegedly involved in the kidnapping of an Iraqi woman. Over the past 15 years, Abu Umar al Kurdi traveled extensively throughout Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq and had met with senior al—Qaida leaders in Afghanistan in 1999. In the 1980s he formed ties with the Muslim Brotherhood while in Iran and Pakistan before joining the Jihad in Afghanistan in...(Read Full Post)