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To: ProudVet77

It's also on a Brazilian site. Here's a Babelfish translation from Portuguese to English:

Second, 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.


215 posted on 01/03/2005 10:54:48 PM PST by Windcatcher
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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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