Career
He was primarily involved in the logistics of AQI"s effort in Iraq and assisted in smuggling weapons, money and fighters across the Syria-Iraq border. He was targeted and killed in a cross-border raid conducted by the United States. military on October 26, 2008. According to the United States Treasury Department, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi appointed Abu Ghadiya the lead Syrian commander for AQI"s logistics in 2004.
After Zarqawi"s death, Ghadiya took orders from his successor, Abu Ayyub First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Masri, either directly or through a deputy.
Abu Ghadiya provided false passports, safe houses, weapons and money to militants on the Syrian side of the Iraqi border before the fighters would cross into Iraq. Ghadiya was killed in a 2008 raid by United States Special Operations inside Syrian territory.
See article 2008 Abu Kamal raid.
