Notorious terrorist indicted in US eludes capture in Iraq, slips into Syria

Why do I get the feeling that Ibrahim's case will be remembered as a testimony to a renewed US-Syrian intel-friendship?

 AP, here

"...He's been described as a "genius." The "grandfather of bomb makers." A "Michelangelo." Or as one former Pentagon official said, "Dr. Frankenstein."

His infamous career stretches back decades. He has been linked to several terrorist organizations, including Black September and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

But it wasn't until Ibrahim broke away from the PFLP in 1979 and formed his own outfit called "15 May" that he began forging his reputation as a master bomb maker, attracting the attention of foreign intelligence services around the globe.

Former intelligence officials say Ibrahim, a devout Sunni Muslim, was closely aligned with the intelligence service, teaching its officers for years while helping carrying out terrorist attacks against Syria and Iran. Ibrahim's 15 May also received monthly "support funds" as late as 1995 and perhaps longer, according to recently released U.S. military documents based on captured Iraqi intelligence records....

So where is Ibrahim today? Federal law enforcement and former CIA officials believe that Ibrahim has fled to Syria. His sons, daughter and longtime wife Selma could also be with him..."