{"id":1461,"date":"2004-11-15T18:05:50","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T01:05:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-11-15T18:05:50","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T01:05:50","slug":"beheading-mastermind-captured-not-zarqawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/15\/beheading-mastermind-captured-not-zarqawi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beheading Mastermind&#8217; Captured (not Zarqawi)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I thought Zarqawi was the beheading mastermind!<\/p>\n<p>But no.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/2004\/11\/15\/story176014.html\">Apparently, that title goes to Moayad Ahmed Yasseen (also known as Abu Ahmed).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahmed reportedly heads the group &#8220;Muhammad&#8217;s Army.&#8221;  Ahmed seems to be incredibly well-connected.  Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi said that Muhammad&#8217;s Army was known to have co-operated with Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and al-Qaida and Saddam loyalists and was responsible for killing and beheading a number of Iraqis, Arabs and foreigners in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>If Ahmed is working with Zarqawi <i>and<\/i> al-Qaeda <i>and<\/I> Saddam loyalists, he seems to be more of the terror mastermind than Zarqawi.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if his capture has any effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I thought Zarqawi was the beheading mastermind! But no. Apparently, that title goes to Moayad Ahmed Yasseen (also known as Abu Ahmed). Ahmed reportedly heads the group &#8220;Muhammad&#8217;s Army.&#8221; Ahmed seems to be incredibly well-connected. Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi said that Muhammad&#8217;s Army was known to have co-operated with Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}