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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.
"The original looks like Portuguese, not Spanish."
If so, then they are speaking Portuguese in Brazil :)
Is that good?
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.
The Russian article says the paper is "Emirate" based. This story sounds fishy...
I had to go to Google to figure out your post.........now I REALLY feel like an ID-10-t!
That's the 07/29/04 report again
Now you've gone too far! I'm calling the Washington Compost!
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.
The only sensible thing is to give up sleeping.
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It doesn't look to be true. How did these obscure news agencies get their hands of this type of news before anybody else?
It looks like a lot of us have.
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.
Yup. The first denial report.
Charles!!
Yeah well, I FELT the earthquake! Big difference LOL!
Are all other reports based on the TASS report?
Moderator should pull this thread...denied by Barry Venable, a real Pentagon spokesman.
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