Writer Basem Sakijha, described him as “a professional intelligence man whose experience and profession have brought him to the most prestigious sites, but when you were sitting with him or seeing him driving his car himself, or walking on a street, you would never know that this person is the owner of that site, and it is not in the margins of speech to remind that he has led the intelligence apparatus for more than six years, which were among the fiercest in our history, during the first Gulf War, and the repercussions of the April, Madrid, Oslo and Wadi Araba bombings, and others.”