U.S.: Insurgent figure killed in Iraq - Another big fish?

AP ^ | April 3, 2007

[ryan71]

U.S.-led forces conducting a crackdown on al-Qaida in Iraq killed a senior member of an insurgent group who was responsible for the high-profile kidnappings of several Westerners, a military spokesman said Thursday.

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said the killing of Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri, described as al-Qaida's information minister, had apparently led to confused reports that its top leader or the head of an umbrella group of insurgents had been killed.

Caldwell said the U.S. does not have the bodies of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the head of the Islamic State of Iraq, or Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, and doesn't know of "anybody that does."

[2banana]

But I thought the war was lost...?

[jveritas]

Excellent news.

[ryan71]

Jubouri - AQ Information Minister - DNA confirmed
Masri - Leader of AQ Iraq - No confirmation, no body
Baghdadi - Head Islamic State - No confirmation, no body

“Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said the killing of Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri, described as al-Qaida’s information minister, had apparently led to confused reports that its top leader or the head of an umbrella group of insurgents had been killed.”

It sounds like one guy was killed and in the confusion three names popped up.

[river rat]

"On Thursday, mourners gathered at al-Jubouri's house in Duluiyah, 45 miles north of Baghdad, as a huge funeral tent was being erected in the street, police said."

In a sane world, determined to defeat these lunatics -- that funeral tent would be a targeted for destruction the moment it was filled with all the attending mourners...

NO COLLECTION of the enemy or their supporters should be exempt from attack.

[GBA]

Yep, in my impatience and lack of tolerance for terrorist scum, I’m inclined to agree. Bomb ‘em, tag ‘em and bag ‘em.