Report on MSNBC is that US says we don't have him...
Of course, I don't have access to any better sources than you do on this. Just a couple of news channels that focus more on the Middle East.
Who to believe?
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Buried in the Reuters report just above we have this:
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In other developments, Iraqi and US forces pressed ahead with some of their most agressive action against the insurgency in months.
US troops battled rebels in the northern town of Tall Afar for a second day while Iraqi and US forces arrested 500 suspected militants in the heartland of the Sunni Muslim insurgency.
Iraqi police and national guardsmen, assisted by US forces, raided the town of Latifiya, 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of Baghdad, marking the first time the interim government has taken decisive action against a Sunni Muslim stronghold since it was sworn in on June 28.
Twelve policemen were killed and 17 people wounded in the operation, with 500 suspected "terrorists" arrested and a large haul of weapons seized, including five barrels of TNT, an Iraqi intelligence officer said.
The town is part of a virtual no-go zone for US troops, Iraqi police and foreigners and has earned the name "Fallujah's second head" after the Sunni rebel strongold west of Baghdad.
The spot is where two French journalists, held by a group calling itself the Islamic Army of Iraq, disappeared on August 20.
500 arrested?.........
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.Could we be the final stages of really taking out the final remaining fighters?????
Perhaps we now have enough human intelligence that we can set traps and capture them where they are congregating....???