Then again...
IRAQ: US SOURCES DENY REPORTS OF AL-ZARQAWI'S ARREST
Washington, 4 Jan. (AKI) - American military sources have denied the news published on Monday night by the al-Bayan newspaper in the United Arab Emirates claiming that the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was arrested in Iraq. The denial came directly from a Pentagon spokesman in an interview with the pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat, published on Tuesday morning. "Al-Zarqawi has not been arrested and the news about his capture is not true," he confirmed.
The report, published on al-Bayan's website, said al-Zarqawi, who is considered al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, was arrested in Baquba, a city to the north of Baghdad. However, Iraqi officials in charge of security in that area say they know nothing about any capture either. The newspaper said it was a Kurdish radio station in the north of Iraq that first broadcast the news, citing Kurdish sources. Al-Bayan admitted it had no official confirmation to verify the report, but pointed out that it was Kurdistan radio who first announced the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003.
Al-Zarqawi's group has claimed responsibility for many deadly suicide attacks in Iraq as well as for kidnapping and beheading several foreign hostages, including the American Nick Berg and the Briton Kenneth Bigley. The US has offered a 25 million dollar reward for the militant.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid =8.0.85120264&par=
PENTAGON NOT COMMENTING ON MID-EAST PRESS REPORTS... DEVELOPING...
That seems to settle it.
#117....Denial