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.
Checked with two sources who both said "no".
In the late evening, pajamas are perfectly acceptable attire. We are, after all, civilized. Yet the pajama brigade remains ever vigilant. :O)
That's all those threads take for you?
They take an valium IV drip for me.
If it is true, I hope they hang him up by his neck and blow him up with a gernade stuck where the sun don't shine. Have some pretty female Marine pull the pin. Have that shown on world wide television.
It is NOT made from a plant,but from a fruit and I have never heard that it is a supposed aphrodisiac.It doesn't cause glaucoma nor any other other eye ailments at all.
Frankly,I don't know where you are getting any of this garbage from! Try asking a South African (yes,there ARE South African FREEPERS!),or someone who actually knows about the stuff. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeash!
Always in our uniform!
"Was this denial from today?"
Yes - today
3 of January of 2005, 18h07
Army of U.S.A. denies arrest of Zarqawi
The Army of the United States today denied the rumors of that the ally of the Al-Qaeda and militant jordaniano Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi had been captured in the city of Baquba, to the north of Bagdá. In Washington, a spokesman of the Pentagon, lieutenant-colonel Barry Venable, said that any news article on the capture of Zarqawi was false. "Zarqawi was not captured", said Venable.
The rumors in the city of Baquba, about 65 km to the north of Bagdá, was of that the North American forces had catch Zarqawi in the area.
One carries voice of 1ª Division of Infantry, responsible for the security in Baquba, also said that it did not have information on the arrest, although to have heard the rumors. "I am not knowing of no operation in the area that would have taken the arrests", it said the sergeant Robert Powell.
Zarqawi is one of the looked men more in Iraq for the Army of the United States. Its group assumed the authorship of the majority of the suicidal attacks in Iraq and already it kidnapped diverse foreigners in the country.
http://noticias.terra.com.br/mundo/interna/0,,OI448460-EI865,00.html
The report says it was being reported on Kurdish radio, but I do not see anything in the Kudish Media News.
http://www.albayan.ae/
LOL
I guess I've just been living in Texas so long it is old news to me, I want something done about it but don't see it happen ing until W stops having V Fox at the ranch every few weeks for dinner and drinks.
You DA Man! Take care.
Why oh why does this kind of news always hit,when I plan an early night?
prisoner6
Night everyone.
See ya'll same time tomorrow!
(go on, go on......get some sleep!)
Ooohhhh, NP, I got some Uggs for Christmas; you NEED them!
"That's a wierd date timestamp."
Translated from babelfish.
http://babel.altavista.com/tr?
Perhaps we'll wake up to some good news tomorow.
We can only hope.
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