I would love to someday...be able to see the headline drop the term..."aide"...
Posted on 01/24/2005 5:27:13 AM PST by iso
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have captured one of al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's top bomb-makers in Iraq (news - web sites), the prime minister's spokesman said Monday.
Sami Mohammed al-Jafi, known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi, is accused of being behind some 32 car bombings since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, it said.
Kurdi has been in Iraqi custody for over a month, but his capture was announced just a week before Iraq's landmark elections in which Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is running on a list that promises to bring security to beleaguered Iraqis.
"Kurdi has confessed to some 75 percent of the car bombs that were used for attacks in Baghdad since March 2003 and to making the explosives used in the attack on the Jordanian embassy in August 2003," spokesman Thair al-Naqib said.
"Kurdi also confirmed he was responsible for some of the bloody attacks on the police."
Iraqi forces said they also captured another insurgent earlier this month, Nayef Abbas al-Zubaydi, who heads the Abu Talha group linked to the Jordanian militant Zarqawi in the lawless northern city of Mosul, Naqib said.
Zubaydi, known as Abu Moawiya, was captured barely two weeks after the arrest of the previous leader of the group, Zain Abdallah Salah Khalaf al-Jib, or Abu Karam.
In an audio tape posted on the Internet Sunday, Zarqawi vowed all-out war against the elections and described those planning to participate as "infidel voters."
Insurgents have stepped up attacks intended to derail Iraq's Jan. 30 poll. Zarqawi has claimed responsibility for some of the bloodiest suicide bombings and hostage beheadings to hit the country.
I guess they are allowed to use better interrogation tactics that the panties thing.
How many "Top Aides" does this guy have?
I hope and pray this lead to the top bomb maker himself.
This was probably the source for the Kurdish story about the "Big Guy's" capture last month.
LOL! I can picture it like this..
"Now just speak into this little thing here while we give you some physical therapy"
How many "top aides" does this Zarqawi coward have?
ONE GUY is responsible for 75% of the car bombs in Bagdhad???
The way the MSM has been running the story, one would think there were THOUSANDS of insurgents causing all that havoc.
I wonder if "top aides" are all there is on the ground in Iraq.
With Kurdi being responsible for 75% of car bombs in Baghdad, one would have thought the number of car bomb attacks in Baghdad would have decreased during the month of his captivity. Unfortunately that is not the case which means one of two things, either the guy is a braggart or he has many qualified understudies, in either case he's not such a big catch after all.
I'm waiting for this headline minus 'top' and 'aide'.
"Get a rope..."
Could this report and the other on Front Page sidebar explain the sentiment from the other day that Zarqawi had been captured?
He sounds like a US big city mayor. :~)
I hope the new Iraqi Gov. kicks the MSM out of Iraq while it cleans it's house. Jail time with panties for any who refuse to leave or sneak in and get caught.
If they turn up the voltage coursing through his genitals from 120 to 150 volts, he'll probably cop to the other 25%.
Or he built an inventory. I do agree, claiming 75% of the bombings sounds braggadocious.
"This guy admitted to quite a bit. I suspect that he was forced to wear panties on his head to make him break this much."
He was forced to wear Barb Boxers undies and threatened with having HER grill him!!
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