Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi

Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi
DiedNovember 2013
Allegianceal Qaeda
Criminal penaltyExecution by hanging
Details
Span of crimes
early 2000s –
CountryIraq
Killed4

Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi (Arabic: أحمد هاشم عبد العيساوي) was an al Qaeda terrorist operating in Iraq in the early 2000s.[1] He allegedly masterminded[2][3][4] the ambush and killing of four American military contractors whose bodies were then dragged by a spontaneously formed mob and hung from the old bridge over the Euphrates river in Fallujah, Iraq.[5] In September 2009, a team of U.S. Navy SEALs captured al-Isawi in a nighttime raid in Fallujah, and he was charged with orchestrating the slayings.[1] He was held for a time by the United States intelligence community and accused some of the SEALs who captured him of mistreating him while detained at Camp Schwedler.[3] al-Isawi was subsequently handed over to Iraqi authorities and was awaiting his own trial when he testified at one of the resulting 2010 courts-martial.[6] His own trial was held some time before November 2013, and al-Isawi was executed by hanging for the killings.[7]

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