IBU bestätigt Tod von Samir H. aus Aachen

von Florian Flade

Im März tötete ein US-Drohnenangriff in Pakistan den deutschen Islamisten Samir H. aus Aachen. Das hatte seine Schwester behauptet. Nun bestätigt eine Terrorgruppe den Tod und präsentiert den Islamisten als “Märtyrer”.

Samir H. wollte weg. Der Aachener war getrieben vom Wunsch, dass seine Kinder in einem muslimischen Land aufwachsen sollten. Deshalb entschloss sich der Sohn einer Deutschen und eines Tunesiers, im November 2009 auszuwandern. Samt Ehefrau und den beiden Kindern reiste Samir H. nach Pakistan. In der Grenzregion zu Afghanistan begann der Deutsche ein neues Leben – als Dschihad-Kämpfer “Abu Laith der Deutsche”.

Nur wenige Wochen nach H.s Ausreise folgte ihm seine jüngere Schwester nach. Die damals 18-jährige Muslima reiste allein in das pakistanische Stammesgebiet Waziristan zu ihrem Bruder und seiner Familie. Samir H. hatte sich dort inzwischen der “Islamischen Bewegung Usbekistans” (IBU) angeschlossen, einer gefürchteten Terrororganisation die in Pakistan gegen die Regierung und für die Errichtung eines islamischen Gottesstaates kämpft.

Anders als viele islamistische Kämpfer aus Deutschland, hatte Samir H. nur einmal einen kurzen Auftritt in einem Propaganda-Video der IBU. Im September 2010 war er in einer Videoszene zu sehen, vor einem Maschinengewehr sitzend, das Gesicht war verpixelt. Samir H. sprach über den “Heiligen Krieg” (Dschihad) gegen die pakistanische Armee.

Ende März meldete sich überraschend Samirs Schwester per Skype aus den pakistanischen Bergen bei ihrer Mutter in Aachen. Sie überbrachte die Nachricht vom Tod ihres 29-jährigen Bruders. Eine US-Drohne habe am 9.März einen Pick-Up-Truck angegriffen, berichtete die Schwester, es seien mehrere Taliban-Kämpfer und Samir getötet worden.

Deutsche Sicherheitsbehörden registrierte die Todes-Nachricht aus Waziristan. Einen Beweis oder andere Hinweise auf den Tod von Samir H. gab es aber bislang nicht. Jetzt hat erstmals die Terrorgruppe IBU bestätigt, dass Samir H. in ihren Reihen getötet wurde.

Ein einstündiges Propaganda-Video, das “Welt Online” vorliegt, zeigt für wenige Sekunden den Aachener Islamisten mit der Bildunterschrift “Ash-Shaheed Abu Laith aus Deuschland”. “Ash-Shaheed” ist das arabische Word für “Märtyrer”. Weitere Details nennen die Terroristen nicht.

Samir H. ist bereits der zweite deutsche Staatsbürger der von einer US-Drohne in Pakistan getötet wurde. Im Oktober 2010 starb der Wuppertaler Bünyamin E. bei einem ähnlichen Raketenangriff auf ein Haus nahe der Ortschaft Mir Ali. Inzwischen hat die Bundesanwaltschaft ein Ermittlungsverfahren gegen Unbekannt im Fall Bünyamin E. eingeleitet.

Vorausgegangen war ein fast zweijähriger Prüfvorgang, der klären sollte, ob die Bundesanwaltschaft in diesem Fall zuständig ist. Dies ist nur gegeben, sollte der Tod im Zuge eines bewaffneten Konfliktes eingetreten sein. Im Fall von Samir H. müsste die Bundesanwaltschaft nun bald den nächsten Prüfvorgang zu einem Drohnen-Toten einleiten.

German Jihadi Militant Killed in Drone Strike

by Florian Flade

Samir H. – German Jihadi killed by US drone in March

On March 9 a US drone fired several missiles at a Pick-Up carrying about a dozen Taliban fighters and foreign militants near the village of Nishpa in South Waziristan. At least six suspected terrorits  were killed in the attack – among them 26-year-old German national Samir H. from Aachen. German newspaper SPIEGEL revealed the news of Samir´s death after it had been kept secret for weeks.

The Islamist, born and raised in East Germany, had traveled to Pakistan in October 2009 with his wife and two children, and joined the “Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan” (IMU). In November 2009 Samir´s sister, at the age of 18, followed her older brother and made her way to the Waziristan tribal region.

Samir H., son of a Tunisian father and a German mother, is the second German citizen killed by a US drone strike within two years. Bünyamin E., a 20-year old from the city of Wuppertal, died in a similar attack in October 2010. His death caused German politicians as well as lawyers to protest the US policy of drone strike in Pakistan.

Canadian Resident Organized Al-Qaida Suicide Bombings?

by Florian Flade

Al-Qaida in Iraq Propaganda – “Martyrdom-Lovers”

Abu Muhammad, a policeman in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul explained to the news media what he had witnessed in the morning of April 10th 2009 when he was on duty in the southern part of the city. The policeman saw a truck filled with about a ton of explosives hidden under grain driving right behind two US Humvees on the street leading to Mosul´s police headquarters right next to U.S. Military’s Forward Operating Base Marez.
The American vehicles entered the compound and stopped. The next moment the truck driver rammed his vehicle through a metal barrier and slammed into a sandbagged wall. As Iraqi guards shot at the truck, the driver detonated the explosives next to the Humvees about 50 yards from the gate.

Five US soldiers died in the blast that left a 60-foot crater in the ground and destroyed the two US vehicles in the convoy. “There was more than 1,000 kg of explosives in the truck, which leveled three buildings”, an Iraqi police official said. Staff Sergeant Gary L. Woods, 24, of Lebanon Junction, Kentucky; Sergeant First Class Bryan E. Hall, 32, of Elk Grove, California; Sergeant Edward W. Forrest Jr., 25, of St. Louis; Corporal Jason G. Pautsch, 20, of Davenport, Iowa; and Army Private First Class Bryce E. Gaultier, 22, from Cyprus, California – all lost their lives in the suicide bombing that is said to have initially targeted the Iraqi police headquarter of Mosul.

The next day one of the leaders of the terror cell that orchestrated the deadliest attack on US troops since March 10th 2008, chatted over the internet with a man living in Canada. “Did you hear about the huge incident yesterday? Is it known?”, the Canadian resident asked the Iraq-based terrorist. “Yes”, responded the member of the Iraqi terror network. “He was one of the Tunisian brothers”, explained the man in Canada whose name is Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa (alias “Tahir Sharif Sayfildin”)

The 38 year-old resident of Canada obviously was proud of the action of the Tunisian suicide bomber. He had reason to be proud because he allegedly was the one who sent a group of Tunisian jihadis into battle in Iraq. Isa is suspected of being a member of the terror network that conducted the deadly bombing. He was arrested yesterday by Canadian authorities in Edmonton on charges filed by U.S. officials. Prior to the arrest there had been a cooperation of U.S., Canadian and Tunisian authorities to gain information about the terror suspect´s involvement with the Iraqi terror group.

In a complaint filed on January 14th by prosecutors in New York City, Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa is charged with providing support to a Iraqi bases terror network: “The defendant is charged in connection with his support for a multinational terrorist network that conducted multiple suicide bombings in Iraq and that is responsible for the deaths of five American soldiers.” The defendant Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa is also suspected of being involved in another suicide bombing on March 31th 2009. That day two Tunisian militants who traveled to Iraq via Libya and Syria in October 2008 with the bomber that killed the five US soldiers in the April´09 Mosul bombing, attacked a police station and killed seven Iraqis.
“A day or two after the bombing, the brother of one of the bombers received an anonymous phone call in which the caller repeated three times that the bomber had “been martyred two days ago in combat with the Americans in Mosul”, the U.S. complaint of the Department of Justice reads.

Canadian Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa allegedly recruited eight Tunisians via the internet and organized the two groups´ travels to Iraq where they joined al-Qaida in Iraq. In March 2009 he tried to recruit a second group of Tunisian jihadis according to the complaint. “Try to delete everything…off your computer.Don’t leave one character of information or anything behind…Don’t leave any trace…Do not forget to keep reading Qur’an and repeat the famous prayers on the way until you meet with God”, Muhammad Isa told one of the Tunisians in online communications. Upon his departure from Tunisia the militant was arrested by Tunisian authorities.

“There is no more pressing duty after the declaration of faith than fighting the enemy”, the Canadian man told his motives to another person in January 2010, “Fighting comes before the other four pillars of faith…Islam came for the good of humanity. So if someone doesn’t like good, we fight them, like those dog Americans.” The same month Faruq Khalil Muhammad Isa talked to the leader of a Iraqi al-Qaida cell about his plans to come to Iraq and take up arms against US troops. He is “1,000,000 percent” committed to the cause of Jihad in Iraq, Isa explained the Iraqi terrorist leader. “Even if I can’t work over there, I can work here”, he stated.

According to the complaint which includes information received by wiretapping, in November 2009 Isa told his mother his greatest wish was to die a martyr. On May 28th 2010 he told his sister living in Iraq she should carry out a “Go learn about weapons and go attack the police and Americans”, he said, “Let it be that you die.”

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