Posted on 01/04/2005 10:47:28 AM PST by vmoney
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
(Excerpt) Read more at drudgereport.com ...
AGAIN!!!!???
They must be playing tag and keep letting him go just so they can catch him again next week.
this is only like the 7 millionth posting of this story....
Please let it really be true!!
I rec'd an email from PhxNews about this and then decided to tune into FNC and the other cable networks. There was nothing on the subject. They are too fixated on the tsunami.
Count down till this gets pulled as a duplicate...
10..9...8...7...
Why not? It's only the gazillionth posting.
It's kind of like the November threads on Arafat's death.
will someone please confirm or debunk this report? Please!
SEARCH is your friend.
I guess you missed the article where foreign terrorists are now designated catch-and-release in Iraq, since they're getting fairly scarce.
I said three threads back that it was like a cat with a mouse. Just good ol' boys having fun.
I must have told you a billion times not to exaggerate. And yes, the search function doesn't seem to be getting lot of use today.
how many threads has this story created in the last two days?
URGENT: 'TARGET #1': al-Zarqawi arrest in Iraq postings causing critical bandwidth consumption...
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Earlier, Drudge reported that a top White House source had denied this.
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UPDATE //
Tue Jan 04 2005 11:18:47 ET
U.S. military and intelligence sources are denying print and broadcast reports that terrorist Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi has been arrested in Iraq, MSNBC reported Tuesday.
MSNBC said senior U.S. military and intelligence sources told it the reports are not true. A newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, al-Bayane, reported in its Tuesday edition that the Jordanian-born terrorist had been arrested in Baqouba, Iraq. Iraqi Kurdistan radio also reported the arrest of al-Zarqawi.
The U.S. military in December said al-Zarqawi likely is in the Baghdad area."
From the same Drudge link.
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