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{{Short description|Islamist bomb-maker (1968–2007}}
{{Infobox criminal
| name              = أبو عمر الكردي
| alias             = Abu Omar al-Kurdi
| occupation        = IED–maker
| birth_date        = [[1968]]
| birth_place       = {{flag|Iraq}}
| death_date        = 2007
| death_place       = [[Baghdad]]
| criminal_status   = Executed in 2007
| beginyear         = 2003
| endyear           = 2005
| apprehended       = 2005
| organization      = [[Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad]]
| criminal_penalty  = Execution
| criminal_charge   = Terrorism
| nationality       = Kurdish
}}
'''Sami Mohammad Ali Said Jaff''' (1968-2007), also known as '''Abu Omar al-Kurdi''', was a bomb-maker for [[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi]].
== Biography ==
Abu Omar al-Kurdi was an ethnic [[Kurd]] from the [[Jaff (tribe)|Jaff]] tribe.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051130233121/http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/iraqi_elections_zarqawi_gambled_and_lost-print.php Abu Omar al-Kurdi, aka Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf — Iraqi Kurd].</ref> He was a veteran of [[Jihad]] in [[Afghanistan]], where he allegedly mastered his [[Improvised explosive device|bomb-making]] skills. He returned to [[Iraq]] in 2003 where he met [[Zarqawi]] and would later become his top bomb-maker. Allegedly, al-Kurdi's bomb-making was made possible by using hundreds of rockets and explosives stolen from Iraqi military warehouses by another member, Ammar az-Zubaidi, early in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. By the time he was arrested on January 15, 2005, he was already responsible for 75 percent of the [[car bomb]] attacks in Iraq since August 2003 but only confessed to 32 of them. These included the [[2003 bombing of Jordanian embassy in Baghdad|attack on the Jordanian embassy]], the [[Canal Hotel bombing]], the [[Imam Ali mosque bombing]], the [[2003 Nasiriyah bombing|attack on the Italian base in Nasiriyya]] and the attack that killed [[Ezzedine Salim]]. The authorities said that al-Kurdi planned attacks on election polling stations during the January 30, 2005 parliamentary elections. al-Kurdi was executed in Baghdad in 2007.<ref>{{citation|access-date=2018-07-19|author=Stephen Farrell|title=Iraq Hangs Insurgent Who Killed Shiite Leader in Bombing of Shrine in 2003|work=The New York Times |date=7 July 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/world/middleeast/07iraq.html}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref name="al-kurdi">[https://nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=eb1cec1e-566d-4f9f-afcc-f794145f64b7&p=2 'Iraq hangs man who confessed to UN attack'] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130928230142/http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=eb1cec1e-566d-4f9f-afcc-f794145f64b7&p=2|date=2013-09-28}}. National Post, undated. Retrieved 22 February 2015.</ref>
== See also ==
* [[Mullah Shwan Kurdi]]
== References ==
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[[Category:1968 births]]
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[[Category:Deaths by firearm in Iraq]]
[[Category:Kurdish Islamists]]
[[Category:Fugitives wanted by Iraq]]
[[Category:Members of al-Qaeda in Iraq]]
[[Category:Salafi jihadists]]
[[Category:21st-century Kurdish people]]