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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi reportedly arrested in Iraq
ITAR-TASS ^ | 01/04/05

Posted on 01/03/2005 9:57:11 PM PST by TexKat

DUBAI, January 4 (Itar-Tass) - Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, whom the US occupation authorities declared to be the "target number one" in Iraq, has been arrested in the city of Baakuba, the Emirate newspaper al-Bayane reported on Tuesday referring to Kurdish sources. Al-Zarqawi, leader of the terrorist group Al-Tawhid Wa'al-Jihad, was recently appointed the director of the Al-Qaeda organisation in Iraq.

The newspaper's correspondent in Baghdad points out that a report on the seizure of the terrorist, on whom the US put a bounty of 10 million dollars, was also reported by Iraqi Kurdistan radio, which at one time had been the first to announce the arrest of Saddam Hussein.

There have been no official reports about the arrest of the terrorist. Al-Zarqawi, 38, a Jordanian, whose real name is Ahmad al-Khalayleh, aims to turn Iraq into a "new Afghanistan". According to Arab press data, Al-Tawhid Wa'al-Jihad group has divided Iraq into several emirates. The group's independent subdivisions at a strength of 50 to 500 militants operate in the cities of Al-Falluja, Al-Qaim, Diala, and Samarra.

The personnel of the group is on the whole 1,500-strong and includes Iraqis and citizens of Arab and Islamic countries. There are demolition experts and missilemen among them.

The group has depots of weapons and explosives in various parts of the country. It intends to frustrate the upcoming parliamentary elections that are scheduled for the end of this month. Al-Tawhid Wa'al-Jihad threatens to do away with Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and members of the interim government.


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To: Windcatcher

"The original looks like Portuguese, not Spanish."

If so, then they are speaking Portuguese in Brazil :)


221 posted on 01/03/2005 10:55:37 PM PST by Gucho
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To: Windcatcher
The Army of the United States today denied the rumors

Well, there is a denial with a US name. Probably time for bed.
222 posted on 01/03/2005 10:56:42 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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To: BJungNan

Is that good?


223 posted on 01/03/2005 10:56:52 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Yaelle

Yeah, with the necks cut out of said shirts, so's we can see their hairy chests...

...yeesh. That guy was enough to make me reconsider evolution.


224 posted on 01/03/2005 10:57:04 PM PST by andie74 (Proud Resident of Fly-Over Country)
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To: TexKat
Al bayane- Journaux Google search Al bayane Description: a Moroccan daily newspaper in French Language on Internet. It contains the following heading: National, International, Economy, Regional, Culture, Company, Sports, Others

The Russian article says the paper is "Emirate" based. This story sounds fishy...

225 posted on 01/03/2005 10:57:04 PM PST by rumrunner
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To: Schwaeky

I had to go to Google to figure out your post.........now I REALLY feel like an ID-10-t!


226 posted on 01/03/2005 10:57:41 PM PST by bonfire
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To: BJungNan

That's the 07/29/04 report again


227 posted on 01/03/2005 10:57:44 PM PST by ChefKeith (If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?)
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To: hchutch
Barry Manilow CDs - check...

Now you've gone too far! I'm calling the Washington Compost!

228 posted on 01/03/2005 10:57:54 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham
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To: Gucho

That's what they speak there. Just about everywhere else in Latin America speaks Spanish, but they speak Portuguese in Brazil. It has to do with a Papal decree back in the 1500's that divided up South America between Spain and Portugal, who were fighting over colonization rights.


229 posted on 01/03/2005 10:58:05 PM PST by Windcatcher
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To: Howlin
Why does everything happen when we need to go to bed?

The only sensible thing is to give up sleeping.

230 posted on 01/03/2005 10:58:50 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham
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To: alancarp
How about something more like this?

. . . . . . . . .

231 posted on 01/03/2005 10:58:56 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (Al-Zarqawi in Wonderland.)
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To: Howlin
ROFLMAO- I'll stick with FNC here, can't handle cnn
232 posted on 01/03/2005 10:59:27 PM PST by ChefKeith (If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?)
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To: ChefKeith

It doesn't look to be true. How did these obscure news agencies get their hands of this type of news before anybody else?


233 posted on 01/03/2005 10:59:31 PM PST by winner3000
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

It looks like a lot of us have.


234 posted on 01/03/2005 10:59:33 PM PST by Howlin
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To: rumrunner

If we really did get Zarqawi, how will that leave his followers? Will they wither and slowly give up, or is a POA already underfoot to keep funding their insurgency? I wish we could just bomb the next city that gets us hit hard.


235 posted on 01/03/2005 10:59:37 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Arkinsaw

Yup. The first denial report.


236 posted on 01/03/2005 10:59:37 PM PST by alancarp (When does it cease to be "Freedom of the Press" and become outright SEDITION?)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Charles!!


237 posted on 01/03/2005 10:59:49 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Howlin

Yeah well, I FELT the earthquake! Big difference LOL!


238 posted on 01/03/2005 10:59:52 PM PST by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Are all other reports based on the TASS report?


239 posted on 01/03/2005 11:00:01 PM PST by CAluvdubya (From the RED part of California)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Moderator should pull this thread...denied by Barry Venable, a real Pentagon spokesman.


240 posted on 01/03/2005 11:00:05 PM PST by rumrunner
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