The top leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq has left the country for Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported Thursday, citing named sources in both the Sunni militant group and the Iraqi military. The report quoted the group's local leader in Fallujah, Abdullah al-Ansari, as saying in an interview with a Washington Post special correspondent that the group's national leader since 2006, an Egyptian known by the aliases Abu Hamza al-Muhajer or Abu Ayyub al-Masri, had departed Iraq and was now in Afghanistan, having transited through Iran. It was "not known yet" if his departure was permanent.
We should be shouting this loudly. I wonder how the lower level jihadis without travel plans (other than to Paradise) feel about being left behind?
And funny enough, Shia Iranians helped Sunni al-Masri cross Iran to flee Iraq and get to Afghanistan! I'm jealous. I too wish we had a supply line through a friendly Iran to Afghanistan .
