Haitham al-Badri
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Haitham Sabah Shaker Mohammed al-Badri was an Iraq
i government official under Saddam Hussein
and is described as the Al-Qaeda
mastermind behind the February 22, 2006 Al Askari Mosque bombing in Samarra
.
According to officials, Badri also personally killed Atwar Bahjat
, an Iraqi reporter for the Al Arabiya
television network.
Badri was killed in an airstrike on August 2, 2007.http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L04311264.htm
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i government official under Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
and is described as the Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...
mastermind behind the February 22, 2006 Al Askari Mosque bombing in Samarra
Samarra
Sāmarrā is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah ad-Din Governorate, north of Baghdad and, in 2003, had an estimated population of 348,700....
.
According to officials, Badri also personally killed Atwar Bahjat
Atwar Bahjat
Atwar Bahjat was an Iraqi journalist and reporter for al-Arabiya television who was abducted and murdered while covering a story. She had previously worked for al-Jazeera...
, an Iraqi reporter for the Al Arabiya
Al Arabiya
Al Arabiya is a Pan-Arabist Saudi-owned Arabic-language television news channel. Launched on March 3, 2003, the channel is based in Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates, and is majority-owned by the Saudi broadcaster Middle East Broadcasting Center ....
television network.
Badri was killed in an airstrike on August 2, 2007.http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L04311264.htm